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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
And we have received the good news concerning future blessings, just as they did prefiguratively about the promised land. But it will be completely useless to us if we likewise do not believe and do not lay aside all faintheartedness, just as hearing did not profit them either. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then he shows what anxiety should press us. In regard to this he does two things: first, he states his intention; secondly, he proves it (v. 3). In regard to the first he does two things: first, he shows that this promise has been made to us; secondly, that that promise is not enough (v. 2b). He says, therefore: for good news came to us as to them. Here it should be noted that the things promised in the Old Testament should be understood spiritually: 'All things happened to them in a figure' (1 Cor. …
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