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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more?" See also again another argument, and this too from examples though not of the same kind. For it is not Peter whom he mentions here nor the Apostles, but certain other spurious ones, with whom he afterwards enters into combat, and concerning whom he says, "If a man devour you, if he take you captive, if he exalt himself, if he smite you on the face," and already he is sounding the prelude to the fight with them. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He hints at certain false teachers who took from them shamelessly and of their own accord. Therefore he did not say: if others take, but: "have authority over you," that is, they lord it over you, rule over you, order you about like slaves; do we not have all the more right, we who are true apostles? Though we have the authority to eat and drink at your expense, yet we did not make use of this authority, lest you be led into temptation. …
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