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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
As if not knowing how to continue in the right beginnings. Now Christ disdains to dwell with those who are thus disposed. Hence He says, How long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Feeling troubled with their company, because of their evil deeds.
Theophylact of Ohrid
By the word perverse, He shows that this wickedness in them was not originally or by nature, for by nature indeed they were upright, being the seed of Abraham, but became perverted through malice.
Western Saints
Bede
Bring your son here. And as he was coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. For as Jesus approached, the demon convulsed and scattered the boy, because often those who turn to God after sins are attacked by greater and new snares of the old enemy, acting, evidently, either to instill hatred of virtue, or to avenge the injury of his expulsion. Hence (to move from the specific to the general) what great struggles he inflicted on the beginnings of the Church, as he grieved suddenly the losses inflicted on his kingdom.
Bonaventure
But Jesus answering said to them, etc. After the disposing occasion, the Evangelist explains secondly the efficient power, which is described here as just, as compassionate, and as great. First, it is described as just in the reproof of the unbelieving heart, when he says: O faithless and perverse generation! …
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