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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Jerusalem
You are being armed not with perishable but with spiritual weapons. The paradise in which you are being planted is the soul's paradise, wherein you will be named with a name you did not have before. You were a catechumen till now, but now you are to be called believer. Henceforth you are transplanted among the olives of that paradise or are being grafted on a good olive tree being taken from a wild olive. You pass from sins to righteousness, from defilements to purity. You are becoming part of the holy Vine. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
But what shall they then say that shall laugh? "And over him they shall laugh; and shall say, Behold a man that hath not set God for his helper" (ver. 8). See ye the body earthly! "As much as thou shalt have, so great shalt thou be," is a proverb of covetous men, of grasping men, of men oppressing the innocent, of men seizing upon other men's goods, of men denying things entrusted to their care. Of what sort is this proverb? …
Thomas Aquinas
"But I am like a fruitful olive tree." Here he treats of the holiness of the good. And first he shows what they do in the present. Second, what they promise, at "I will praise you." The saints do a twofold good in the present Church. First, in that they relate well to their neighbor by bearing fruit in them: and therefore the just man is compared to an olive tree; as if to say, the sinner is thus plucked out without fruit, but "I am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God." And he is compared to an olive tree on account of its …
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