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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
What of others? For all are not so conquered as to be converted and believe: many continue in obstinacy, many preserve in heart the spirit of going before, and if they exert it not, yet they labour with it, and finding opportunity bring it forth. Of such, what followeth? "Let them be as dust before the wind" (ver. 5). "Not so are the ungodly, not so; but as the dust which the wind driveth away from the face of the earth." The wind is temptation; the dust are the ungodly. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then, when he says, "let them be," he adduces a comparison. And first, regarding the first. Second, regarding the second, at "let their ways be." He says therefore, "let them be as dust." For he first asks for judgment against those who sought to destroy him totally; and therefore he adduces a comparison of something that is totally destroyed, namely dust. …
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