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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
That they might cause the cry of the needy to come to Him, and that He might hear the voice of the poor. For when these men are proud, they who are oppressed by their pride, cry aloud to God. Or certainly, it is said that they have caused the cry of the poor to come to God, because, on their fall, the poor, that is, the humble in spirit, are appointed in their room. …
Thomas Aquinas
He shows the effect of affected malice of this kind adding, "or cause the cry of the poor to come to him," as if to say: They show themselves to be so ignorant of the ways of God that they oppress the poor whom God hears. So just as they do not shudder in horror at the oppression of the poor, in the same way they do not fear the anger of God, and so he says, "and he hear the voice of the poor," as if to say: They trivialize the fact that God shows his will is to hear the poor.
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