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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He given her understanding. 26. Although to deprive is one thing, and not to give is another, yet His first expression 'deprived,' He repealed by subjoining, 'hath not given.' As if He were saying, My expression 'deprived' means not that He has unjustly taken away wisdom, but that He has justly not given it. …
Thomas Aquinas
She does this if not because of fear, because of a defect of natural instinct which other animals have for this care, and so he says, "For God has deprived her," the female ostrich, "of wisdom," to nourish and govern her young in an orderly way, "nor did he give her intelligence," by which she has care for her young. Wisdom and intelligence here mean natural instinct.
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