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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
For this cause also he had vehemently inveighed against the wisdom of the Greeks, to teach men this lesson, and no other: that (as indeed is no more than just) they should boast themselves in the Lord. For when of ourselves we seek the things which are above us, nothing is more foolish, nothing weaker than we are. In such case, a tongue well whetted we may have; but stability of doctrine we cannot have. Rather, reasonings, being alone, are like the webs of spider. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
All this, he says, was done so that no one would consider himself to be something and would boast neither in himself nor in any other person, but only in God, Who has granted us such great blessings. How then do you take pride both in yourselves and in your teachers — mere men?
Ignatius of Antioch
But I measure myself, that I may not perish through boasting: but it is good to glory in the Lord. And even though I were established in things pertaining to God, yet then would it befit me to be the more fearful, and not give heed to those that vainly puff me up. For those that commend me scourge me. [I do indeed desire to suffer], but I know not if I be worthy to do so. For the envy of the wicked one is not visible to many, but it wars against me. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Thirdly, he assigns the cause of the above when he says: Therefore, as it is written, Let him that boasts, boast of the Lord (Jer 9:24), where our version has: "Let him that glories, glory in this that he understands and knows me." For he is saying: If man's salvation does not spring from any human greatness but solely from God's power, the glory belongs not to man but to God, as it says in Ps 115 (v. 1): "Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory"; "To him that gives me wisdom will I give glory" (Sir 51:23).
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