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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"An ungodly word do they set forth against Me" (ver. 8). What sort of ungodly word? Listen to the Head Itself. "Come, let us kill Him, and the inheritance shall be ours." Fools! How shall the inheritance be yours? Because ye killed Him? Lo! ye even killed Him; yet shall not the inheritance be yours. "Shall not He that sleepeth add this also, that He rise again"? When ye exulted that ye had slain Him, He slept; for He saith in another Psalm, "I slept." They raged and would slay Me; "I slept." If I had not willed, I had not even slept. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Shall he who sleeps rise again?" Here he sets forth the reasoning behind their wicked determination. The word "not" is superfluous; as if to say: he who sleeps will not rise again; as if to say: if we kill him, he will not rise. Wis. 2: "There is no one who has been known to have returned from the dead." And therefore they believed the resurrection to be a deception. …
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