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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Once more he checks them by the impossibility and the inexpediency of the thing, saying, "Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." And he does not say, If Christ be God; but the work itself declares this. He does not pronounce upon it, either that it is "of men," or that it is "of God;" but he leaves the proof to the future. But what a great thing it was that he ventured to affirm: that it was of God, when in the sequel it received its proof from the events! …
Western Saints
Bede
Lest you be found to be fighting against God. For what we have as fighting against God, or, as some have interpreted, opposing God, in Greek one word is used, θεομάχοι. I thought this worth mentioning, so that when we find θεομάχος or θεομαχίαν in histories, we can more surely know the meaning of the term.
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