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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Now followeth, "O magnify the Lord with me" (ver. 3). Who is this that exhorteth us, that we should magnify the Lord with him? Whoever, Brethren, is in the body of Christ, ought for this to labour, that the Lord may be magnified with him. For he loveth the Lord, whoever he is. And how doth he love Him? So as not to envy his fellow-lover. ...Let them blush who so love God as to envy others. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, "Magnify," he exhorts to praise. And first to interior praise. Second, to exterior, at "And let us exalt." As to the first he says, "Magnify the Lord with me." To magnify and to praise God are the same thing, because the goodness of God and his greatness are the same; because in those things that are not great in bulk, to be greater is the same as to be better, according to Augustine in On the Trinity. And therefore he says, "Magnify": Lk. …
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