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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Not only from this or that, but simply from everything: both from false prophets and from sin.
Polycarp of Smyrna
I am greatly grieved for Valens, who was once a presbyter among you, because he so little understands the place that was given him [in the Church]. I exhort you, therefore, that ye abstain from covetousness, and that ye be chaste and truthful. "Abstain from every form of evil." For if a man cannot govern himself in such matters, how shall he enjoin them on others? If a man does not keep himself from covetousness, he shall be defiled by idolatry, and shall be judged as one of the heathen. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
In regard to the third point, Paul says of evil: abstain from every form of evil. "He knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good" (Is. 7:15). And he says, every form because we are obliged to avoid even those actions which only have the appearance of evil, that is, which we cannot perform in the sight of men without causing scandal.
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