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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
This then is the first difference between a soothsayer and a prophet; but a second and a different one is that which he next states, saying, "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:" and then another: "and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but in the Holy Ghost." "When thou seest," saith he, "any one not uttering His name, or anathematizing Him, he is a soothsayer. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
And he says this: let this be for you a sign of a false prophet: he "anathematizes," that is, blasphemes and speaks evil of Jesus; conversely, a sign of a true prophet: he utters the name of the Lord with praise. But what about the catechumens? How do they, not yet having the Spirit, name Jesus? But the discussion now is not about them, but about believers and unbelievers. And what about the demons? Did they not call Jesus by the name of the Lord (Mark 5:7)? …
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
If we cannot name the Lord Jesus without the Spirit, surely we cannot proclaim him without the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, Therefore, he concludes to two effects of grace: the first is that it makes one abstain from sin; the second is that it makes one do good works (v. 3b). First, therefore, he says: From the fact that when you were without grace, you ran after sin rapidly, I want you to understand that if you had possessed grace, this would not have happened to you, for no one speaking by the Spirit of God says "Jesus be cursed," i.e., blasphemes Jesus: "Every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God" (1 Jn 4:3). …
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