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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
He chastens him also with pain upon his bed, and makes all his bones to waste away. By bed, or pallet, or couch in holy Scripture, is understood, sometimes carnal pleasure, sometimes a resting in good works, sometimes temporal rest; for what is meant by what our Lord said in the Gospel to a certain one who was healed, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house, except that bodily pleasure is signified by bed? …
Thomas Aquinas
Then he discusses the fact that God can also speak and correct man through the sickness of the body. He first notes sensible pain here, and so he says, "He also chides," a man for past sins, "by pain," which is the corporeal pain which comes from sickness. So he says, "on his bed," according to the Psalm, "Upon his bed of pain." (Ps. 11:4) Second, he notes the weakness of the sick when he says, "and he makes all of his bones grow feeble," when he destroys the strength which consists in his bones.
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