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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Woe unto them that call evil good." For this text is to be understood to refer not to humans but to those things that make humans evil, and the prophet's accusation is rightly applied to one who calls adultery good. But if someone should call another good whom he believes chaste, not knowing that he is an adulterer, he is deceived not in his understanding of good and evil but through the secrets of human conduct. He is calling a person good whom he believes to possess that which indubitably is good. …
Jerome
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil: who put darkness for light, and light for darkness: who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. It is of the same crime to call good, light, and sweet by the opposite names, as to call evil, darkness, and bitter by the names of virtues. …
Thomas Aquinas
192. Woe to you that call evil good. Here he sets out vanity as to the excusing of sin. And first, as to the effect: that call evil good: the evil of their hands they call good (Mic 7:3); second, as to the intellect: that put darkness for light, truth for error: men loved darkness rather than the light (John 3:19); third, as to the affections: that put bitter for sweet, thinking the life of sin to be sweet: and it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call …
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