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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
639. Second, he threatens the punishment of blindness: whom shall he teach? Hence the question is first set out, whom shall he teach knowledge? As if to say: why have you spurned knowledge? The hearing, namely, what I heard from the Lord. Second, the answer is set out: them that are weaned from the milk, that is, the humble and simple little ones: you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to little ones (Matt 11:25); or all of the good who are separated from the milk of concupiscence. 643. …
Bonaventure
"Whom shall he teach knowledge, and whom shall he make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk and drawn away from the breasts." We dispose ourselves to receive the gift of understanding through holiness of life. Milk signifies the sweetness of carnal delights, by which sweetness the carnal and the infantile are nourished, that is, those who follow infantile impulses. And as long as a man is joined to these carnal consolations, he is called a nursing infant and is not fit to receive the solid food of life and understanding. …
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