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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Observe how bitterly he speaks here against their deceivers. At the outset he directed his charge against those who were deceived, and called them foolish, once and again. Now, having sufficiently corrected and instructed them, he turns to their deceivers. And you should remark his wisdom in the manner in which he admonishes and chastens the former as his own children, and as capable of receiving correction, but their deceivers he cuts off, as aliens and incurably depraved. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Those who had been led astray he called at first foolish and rebuked them no more than children, but the deceivers themselves, as incurably sick, he curses and says: oh, if only they would not merely circumcise themselves, but cut up their whole body entirely! And notice, he called them "those who unsettle you" (in Slavonic "those who pervert," in Greek "those who compel you to leave your homeland and freedom"), leading them into captivity. …
Oecumenius
"I wish those who are unsettling you." Concerning you I care; but concerning those who have raised themselves against you, as though suffering from incurable diseases, no longer. Therefore let them not only be circumcised, but would that they had also cut themselves off. "would even." Would that they had also utterly cut themselves off, those who offer you the deceit of circumcision.
Western Saints
Jerome
I wish that those who trouble you may be cut off. It is asked how Paul, his disciple, said: Bless those who curse you. And he himself speaking: Bless and do not curse (Rom. XII, 14). And in another place: Neither shall the revilers possess the kingdom of God (I Cor. XV): now if he has cursed them, who trouble the Galatian churches, and with a wishful prayer he has cursed: I wish that those who trouble you may be cut off. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then he rebukes the false brethren who had slandered him, saying, "I would they were even cut off who trouble you". As if to say: They trouble you on one matter, namely, they want you to be circumcised; but I would that they be not only circumcised but wholly emasculated. …
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