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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Gregory of Nyssa
Of such a kind as this, perhaps, is that of which the prophet says, touching the ungodly, "They weave a spider's web." For as in the cobweb there is the appearance of something woven, but no substantiality in the appearance,—for he who touches it touches nothing substantial, as the spider's threads break with the touch of a finger,—just such is the unsubstantial texture of idle phrases. …
Western Saints
Jerome
They conceived labor and gave birth to iniquity: they broke the eggs of vipers and wove spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and what is hatched will break out into a viper. Their webs will not be turned into clothing, nor will they be covered with their works. LXX: For they bring forth pain and generate iniquity. They broke the eggs of vipers and wove spider webs. …
Thomas Aquinas
1040. Second, he applies a certain metaphor to this. And first, he sets out the metaphor itself as to their cunning, both as to their oppression of others: eggs of asps, that is, counsels full of poison, they have broken, namely, bringing their works in public: their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable (Deut 32:33); and as to their own advantage: and have woven the webs, that is, thoughts useless for their own advantage: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs (Hos 8:6). …
Bonaventure
Those who bent their knee to drink are those who inclined themselves totally to philosophy: and the same are inclined to an infinite number of errors, and that is how the leaven of error is warmed. They warm the eggs of asps, so that what has been warmed breaks out into a serpent.
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