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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
He means, for I knew even before this what was good, but when I find it set down in writing, I praise it.
Theophylact of Ohrid
I knew the good even before the law, and when I find it depicted in writings, I praise the law and agree with it "according to the inner man," or according to my mind.
Methodius of Olympus
And the same is denoted by the words, "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? "By which he does not mean that the body is death, but the law of sin which is in his members, lying hidden in us through the transgression, and ever deluding the soul to the death of unrighteousness. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then he presents a sign to show that the law agrees with reason, when he says, for I am delighted. For no one delights except in that which agrees with him. But man according to his reason delights in the law of God; therefore, the law of God agrees with reason. …
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