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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Demanding strict attention from the believers to his proclamation and insisting on this at length, even though they already know and have heard it more than once, the apostle now says: it is not in vain that I dwell on this, but because I recognize the full importance of it. Why so? Because when we proclaimed to you the power and coming of the Lord, we did not employ human wisdom toward you, nor did we beguile your hearing with eloquence, as the pagans and heretics do. …
Oecumenius
When Peter had said that they should diligently attend to themselves, and that those things which had been announced to them were indeed so, and he had explained this at length, frequently: although he knew and they had heard in various ways, he now adds their confirmation and says: I do not apply a vain diligence to these matters, but since I know the truth of them to be certain and undoubted, I dwell on them. And what is this? …
Western Saints
Bede
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths, etc. Here he touches upon both pagans and heretics, the former of whom did not fear to call whatever pleased them gods; the latter, after receiving the mysteries of the true God, no longer paid attention to the divine Scriptures but instead tried to transfer them by badly interpreting them according to their own erroneous understanding.
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