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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"Are you not that Egyptian?" There appeared a certain Egyptian, an innovator, a rebel, a deceiver, and a sorcerer. The devil flattered himself with the hope of using this man and presenting both Christ and the apostles as participants in those crimes which were committed by the followers of this Egyptian.
Oecumenius
"Are you not the Egyptian." This Egyptian was a certain man, a maker of new movements and a rebel and a deceiver and a sorcerer. And since the Devil wished to make Paul a sharer in the crimes that belonged to him, just as at that time against Christ, he stirred him up to perform wonders among the Jews. And when the chiliarch says, "Are you not the Egyptian," he immediately removed him from this suspicion, and from the nation, and from the religion. For elsewhere he calls himself legitimately of Christ. [CHRYSOSTOM]
Western Saints
Bede
Four thousand men of the Sicarii. There is no controversy to be held between the tribune who spoke these things and Josephus who wrote about the Egyptian. For it could happen that he first came with a few, the same secretly leading a tyranny, but later joined many to himself by public deceit. …
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