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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy." "They bound themselves under a curse," it says. See how vehement and revengeful they are in their malice! What means, "bound under a curse?" Why then those men are accused forever, seeing they did not kill Paul. And forty together. …
Oecumenius
The binding is therefore to be understood in a double sense: one, as directed to God alone, in the manner of being unattainable by all or by many; the other, as imposed upon all creation and upon the holy incorporeal powers and alien to God, as assigned to the Devil, because of the alienation of the good in purity; in this way now also they subject themselves to the curse. We therefore think that this is often rightly spoken of as a curse [κατάθεμα]. …
Western Saints
Bede
And they bound themselves by an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. While the Lord says: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (Matt. 5), these contrariwise hunger for iniquity, and thirst so greatly for blood that they even renounce food for their body until satisfied by his death. But there is no wisdom nor prudence nor counsel against the Lord. …
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