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Galatians 1:9

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

So that they would not think he said this in anger and carried away by emotion, he repeats the same thing again, showing that he spoke not thoughtlessly, but having firmly and unwaveringly resolved this within himself.

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Oecumenius

So that they may not think I have said these things out of anger, as if not truly believing them, he adds the verb second.

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Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

Then when he says, "As we said before, so now I say it again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema," he pronounces his sentence on the evil person and says: As I have said of angels and apostles, so I say of the seducers. If any seducer "shall preach a gospel besides that which you have received from me, let him be anathema," i.e., excommunicated. And this is the sentence he passes. Now it may be asked whether all heretics are thereby excommunicated. …

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