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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, orthodox, containing nothing blameworthy. The adversary he calls either the devil, or anyone who serves him.
Oecumenius
Sound speech, and blamelessness; so that the opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say about us. sound speech. Clearly, that of the doctrines. For when these are added to the teaching, he who opposes, whether the slanderer or the heretic, will be ashamed, finding no hold at all against us.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then he shows how he should act in doctrine and in word; and he says that he should have the sound word that cannot be blamed or corrupted by falsity: follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus (2 Tim 1:13); fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince (Prov 17:7). …
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