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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And not holding fast the Head," he saith, "from whom all the body." All the body thence hath its being, and its well-being. Why, letting go the Head, dost thou cling to the members? If thou art fallen off from it, thou art lost. "From whom all the body." Every one, be he who he may, thence has not life only, but also even connection. All the Church, so long as she holds The Head, increaseth; because here is no more passion of pride and vainglory, nor invention of human fancy. Mark that "from whom," meaning the Son. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He who teaches this, he says, does not hold fast to the Head, that is, the Son of God. For He is the Head of the angels, as Creator and Ruler of the world, and equally the Head of the entire Church, both for this reason and because we are members of His body, for He Himself is a partaker with us in this very thing. From Him, therefore, the entire body of the Church has both simple existence and well-being. Whoever falls away from Him is lost. …
Irenaeus
But if any one believes in [only] one God, who also made all things by the Word, as Moses likewise says, "God said, Let there be light: and there was light;" and as we read in the Gospel, "All things were made by Him; and without Him was nothing made;" and the Apostle Paul [says] in like manner, "There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father, who is above all, and through all, and in us all" -this man will first of all "hold the head, from which the whole body is compacted and bound together, and, through means of …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
With regard to their faith he says that they were not holding fast to the Head, that is, Christ, by faith. Such people are deceived, because without Christ they are in the dark: "If any one does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing" (1 Tim 6:3). Why is Christ the Head? Paul answers: because the entire good of the body, which is the Church, depends on him. …
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