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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Speaking lies in hypocrisy." This implies that they utter not these falsehoods through ignorance and unknowingly, but as acting a part, knowing the truth, but "having their conscience seared," that is, being men of evil lives. But why does he speak only of these heretics? Christ had before said, "Offenses must need come" (Matt. xviii. 7), and he had predicted the same in his parable of the sower, and of the springing up of the tares. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, what they speak falsely about, they do not speak falsely out of ignorance, but knowing that it is false, they hypocritically teach it as though it were true.
Irenaeus
Such are the words and deeds by which, in our own district of the Rhone, they have deluded many women, who have their consciences seared as with a hot iron. Some of them, indeed, make a public confession of their sins; but others of them are ashamed to do this, and in a tacit kind of way, despairing of [attaining to] the life of God, have, some of them, apostatized altogether; while others hesitate between the two courses, and incur that which is implied in the proverb, "neither without nor within;" possessing this as the fruit from …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
On the part of those deceived, the cause is also twofold: one is their falsity; the other is the perversity of their conscience. In regard to the first he says, of devils, i.e., of men possessed by a Devil; of devils I say, speaking lies: how long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophecy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart (Jer 23:36). And note that no one could deceive another with a simple lie, unless it was covered with the appearance of truth. …
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