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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"That our fathers," saith he, "were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of a spiritual Rock that followed them: and the Rock was Christ. Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased." And wherefore saith he these things? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He enumerates how many gifts the Jews were deemed worthy of from God, and declares that even after these gifts many did not please God. He says this with the aim of proving that just as it did not benefit the Jews to receive abundant gifts when they themselves did not fulfill their duty, so too it will not benefit you that you believed and were deemed worthy of spiritual mysteries, if you do not present yourselves worthy of the grace of God. …
Clement of Alexandria
Our Gnostic then alone, having grown old in the Scriptures, and maintaining apostolic and ecclesiastic orthodoxy in doctrines, lives most correctly in accordance with the Gospel, and discovers the proofs, for which he may have made search (sent forth as he is by the Lord), from the law and the prophets. For the life of the Gnostic, in my view, is nothing but deeds and words corresponding to the tradition of the Lord. But "all have not knowledge. …
Western Saints
Bonaventure
Concerning the allegory of the Head, Paul writes: "I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized in Moses, in the cloud and in the sea. And all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank from the spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ)."
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