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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Hence is plain that their teachers were preaching to them not only circumcision, but also the feast-days and new-moons.
Theophylact of Ohrid
From this it is evident that the false apostles preached not only circumcision, but also the observance of feasts and new moons.
Oecumenius
Paul argues with those from the Jews, showing that the observance of days and months and seasons and years and whatever in the law is observance is idolatry. For this, he says, is nothing else than worshiping the moon and the sun, by which the days have their observance. He said this about property, wanting to depart from the law. For those who preach circumcision also proclaimed such observances. You observe days. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Observing days, and months, and seasons, and years, I fear for you, lest perhaps I have labored in vain among you. Whoever does not worship the Father in spirit and truth, does not know the Sabbath rest that is reserved for the holy ones, about which God speaks: 'If they shall enter into my rest' (Psalm 94:11); and does not remember those times, of which it is written: 'Remember the days of old' (Isaiah 46:9). And elsewhere: 'I remembered the days of old, and I had in mind the eternal years' (Psalm 76:6). …
Thomas Aquinas
And the proof of this is obvious, because "You observe days," auspicious and inauspicious, "and months and times, and years," i.e., the constellations and the course of the heavenly bodies, all of which observances spring from idolatry, against which Jeremias (10:2) says: "Be not afraid of the signs of heaven which the heathens fear." That observances of this sort are evil and contrary to the worship of the Christian religion is plain, because the distinction of days, months, years and times is based on the course of the sun and …
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