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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"They tempted Me, and mocked Me with mocking" [Psalm 35:16]. That is, they derided Me, they insulted Me; this of the Head, this of the Body. Consider, Brethren, the glory of the Church which now is; remember its past dishonours, remember how once were Christians everywhere put to flight, and wherever found, mocked, beaten, slain, exposed to beasts, burned, men rejoicing against them. As it was to the Head, so it is also to the Body. …
Thomas Aquinas
"They were scattered and were not repentant." He shows that they were not recalled or changed to good by the second remedy, which is the divine scourge; and regarding this he does three things. First, he shows the evil they suffered; second, the lack of compunction in them, at "nor repentant"; third, the effect of their hardening, at "they tempted me," etc. …
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