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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Lord, allowing tax collectors and sinners to come to Him, as a physician to the sick, was doing that for which He had become incarnate. But the Pharisees, themselves truly sinners, responded to such love for mankind with grumbling. For they considered the tax collectors abhorrent, even though they themselves devoured the houses of widows and orphans.
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
But, on the contrary, they who from false justice are wont to pride themselves, despise all others, and never in mercy condescend to the weak; and thinking themselves not to be sinners, are so much the worse sinners. Of such were the Pharisees, who condemning our Lord because He received sinners, with parched hearts reviled the very fountain of mercy. …
Bonaventure
Second, with regard to the expression of conceived impiety, he adds: And the Pharisees and scribes murmured. Murmuring is a speaking-against which is neither fully expressed nor fully kept silent: Wisdom 1: "The ear of jealousy hears all things, and the tumult of murmurings shall not be hidden. …
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