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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"I have been made sad in my exercise, and have been troubled" [Psalm 55:2]. Where made sad, where troubled? "In my exercise," he says. Of evil men, whom he suffers, he has made mention, and the same suffering of evil men he has called his "exercise." Think ye not that without profit there are evil men in this world, and that no good God makes of them. Every evil man either on this account lives that he may be corrected, or on this account lives that through him a good man may be exercised. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Attend to me and hear me." Here is described the order by which God accepts prayer: namely, when he accepts the prayer or petition, because the petitioner is not accepted through the prayer, but the prayer of those to be accepted is accepted through the petition. Hence it is said in Gen. 4: "The Lord looked first to Abel and then to his offerings." "Attend to me," that is, accept me. Or "attend to my affliction." Exod. 3: "Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people." "And hear me." Ps. …
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