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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Going before to judgment." This he had said, implying that of evil actions here some are concealed, and some are not; but there neither the good nor the bad can be concealed. And what is that going before to judgment? When one commits offenses that already condemn him, or when he is incorrigible, and when one thinks to set him right and cannot succeed. What then? What is the use of mentioning this? Because if here any escape detection, they will not hereafter. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
The greatest consolation for the righteous consists in the fact that good and evil deeds are known even here, but especially there, where all things are laid bare.
Western Saints
Jerome
The words mean this: Certain persons sin so deliberately and flagrantly that you no sooner see them than you know them at once to be sinners. But the defects of others are so cunningly concealed that we only learn them from subsequent information. Similarly the good deeds of some people are public property, while those of others we come to know only through long intimacy with them.
Thomas Aquinas
Second, he says, do not impose hands lightly on any man, and he explains that this applies to men who are not evidently good, because in like manner also good deeds of some are manifest: that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven (Matt 5:16); he that does truth comes to the light that his works may be made manifest (John 3:21). …
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