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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
Likewise, the common Jewish people rejected the grace that was given them and found it unacceptable; for they resisted, as I have said, the teachings of Christ.… "For I desire to refashion you," he says, "into something better, to remake you into something superior through a spiritual birth which, of course, is the one through water and the Spirit; but you foolishly resist my plans. Did the clay," he says, "ever reproach the potter for not having a skillful hand, or for not knowing how to give shape to what he holds in his hands? …
Western Saints
Jerome
Woe to those who contradict their maker, a pot made of clay, and say to the one who formed them, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no hands.' Woe to those who say to their father, 'What are you begetting?' or to their mother, 'What are you in labor with?' This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, and its maker: Ask me about the things to come, concerning my children, and about the work of my hands, give me orders. …
Thomas Aquinas
862. Woe to him that gainsays. Here he excludes the contradiction of the unbelievers. And first, under the metaphor of a craftsman who fashions clay; for as clay does not contradict the one who fashions it, so the Jews ought not contradict God, by not believing that anyone could arise who would conquer the Babylonians; earthen pots or samia, earthen vessels, so-called because this art was invented in Samos; your work is without hands, as if to say: without the proper working of the hands, or as jugs have hands, above: as if the clay …
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