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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, many desire to come to the faith, and a wide entrance to them is open to me, since their mind has ripened for the faith. For a teacher is constrained when his students are not diligent; on the contrary, the field is wide for him when his students are ready. For this very reason there are also "many adversaries," for the devil, seeing that his servants are being taken from him, becomes more agitated and raises up adversaries.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
He adds the reason for why he wanted to stay in Ephesus until Pentecost when he says, for a wide door for effective work has opened for me, i.e., I am producing great fruit in Ephesus. And he says, a wide door has opened for me, i.e., many human hearts prepared for believing, and it is evident, because it is without contradiction: "And pray for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word" (Col. 4:3). …
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