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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"He will send," instead of: He will permit him to come. Look, first they rejected the truth, and then they abandoned God, and falsehood took hold of them. The apostle calls "the working of delusion" the deeds of the antichrist, which he performs in order to deceive, or thus he also named him himself, acting at the instigation of Satan, in order to seduce many.
Cyprian
Not to recognize sins lest penance follow is the wrath of God, as it is written, "And the Lord gave to them the spirit of a deep sleep," lest they actually return and be cured and healed by their lamentations and just satisfactions after their sins. The apostle Paul in his epistle states and says, "For they have not received the love of truth that they might be saved. …
Irenaeus
"But," say they, "God hardened the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants." Those, then, who allege such difficulties, do not read in the Gospel that passage where the Lord replied to the disciples, when they asked Him, "Why speakest Thou unto them in parables?"-"Because it is given unto you to know the mystery of the kingdom of heaven; but to them I speak in parables, that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not hear, understanding they may not understand; in order that the prophecy of Isaiah regarding them may be fulfilled, …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But their sin and punishment is their deception; hence he says "God shall send them", i.e., permit to come to them, "the operation of error." "God has mingled in their midst a spirit of confusion" (Isa 19:14). "I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets" (1 Kgs 22:22). And this is why he says "to believe lying", i.e., the false teaching of the Antichrist. "For which reason God gave them over to a reprobate mind, that they might do things which are not fitting" (Rom 1:28).
Bonaventure
The third flow from the light of faith consists in the rapture of love: at such times, the soul always perceives inner joy even in the face of insults and hardships. And it is at its highest when the burning soul feels that the Lord makes it taste the children's bread. Now this is the highest point of faith, the summit: to be inebriated by actual experience and to have no desire for the world. This will be the defense of such a soul in the time of the Antichrist: God sends them a misleading influence that they may believe falsehood.
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