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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
But what is this, "comparing spiritual things with spiritual?" When a thing is spiritual and of dubious meaning, we adduce testimonies from the things which are spiritual. For instance, I say, Christ rose again-was born of a Virgin; I adduce testimonies and types and demonstrations; the abode of Jonah in the whale and his deliverance afterwards; the child-bearing of the barren, Sarah, Rebecca, and the rest; the springing up of the trees which took place in paradise when there had been no seeds sown, no rains sent down, no furrow …
Theophylact of Ohrid
We, he says, have all the more wisdom in comparison with the Greek sages, in that they were instructed by men, whereas we speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. That is, if any spiritual questions arise, we judge them, that is, we resolve them by means of other spiritual teachings or narratives. So, for example, the spiritual question: did Christ rise from the dead? We discuss and resolve on the basis of another spiritual teaching, namely the narrative of Jonah. …
Clement of Alexandria
For he who is still blind and dumb, not having understanding, or the undazzled and keen vision of the contemplative soul, which the Saviour confers, like the uninitiated at the mysteries, or the unmusical at dances, not being yet pure and worthy of the pure truth, but still discordant and disordered and material, must stand outside of the divine choir. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Above the Apostle had said: "We speak wisdom among the perfect." Therefore, after indicating that it is a mark of this wisdom not to be known by worldly men, but to be known by the saints, he now discloses the way in which the saints speak this wisdom among the perfect. He shows that the things revealed are now manifest, saying: I have said that we have received the Spirit of God, that we may know the things given us by God; which things, namely, revealed by the Spirit, we impart, for they were to them for a purpose. …
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