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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Cast me not forth from Thy face" (ver. 11). Turn away Thy face from my sins: and "cast me not forth from Thy face." Whose face he feareth, upon the face of the Same he calleth. "And Thy Holy Spirit take not away from me." For in one confessing there is the Holy Spirit. Even now, to the gift of the Holy Spirit it belongeth, that what thou hast done displeaseth thee. The unclean spirit sins do please; the Holy One they displease. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Do not cast me from your face, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me." Here he asks for the restoration of grace. And first, he asks for grace itself. Second, he asks for the effect of grace, at "restore." A person is said to have the grace of God in two ways: for someone is said to have the grace of God and of man; and as to something, similarly, namely when he is pleasing to both, namely to God and to man. And this is called sanctifying grace. Eph. …
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