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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words." In the case of the Apostles they were annoyed that they preached the Resurrection, and that much people flowed unto them: but in this case, that they were getting their diseases healed. The things for which they ought to give thanks, they made matter of blame: O the madness! The men who overcame them by works, they expected to overcome by words! It is just what they did in the case of Christ, and always they forced them to words. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
"Then they suborned certain men to say." The disputants do not testify themselves — because they would immediately be exposed as slandering Stephen out of envy — but they bribe others, so that the matter would not be considered unjust — because they did not fear God, defiling themselves with murder, but turned their gaze to the opinion of men.
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