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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Having finished his discourse on the recklessness and unruliness of the tongue, the apostle turns his speech to "envy," which is born in people from similar thoughtlessness. He said this, having first praised the good teacher.
Oecumenius
Who is wise and has knowledge among you? Let him show by good conversation his working in mildness of wisdom. But if you have bitter zeal, and there be disputes in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. For this is not wisdom descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish. For where zeal and contention is: there is inconstancy, and every perverse work. …
Desert Fathers
Hyperichius said, 'He who teaches others by his life and not his speech is truly wise.'
Western Saints
Bede
Who among you is wise and disciplined, let him show by good conduct his works in the humility of wisdom. Because he had imposed silence on wicked teachers and had forbidden them to hold the rank of teacher, since he saw that they had neither the perfection of life nor the restraint of the tongue, he consequently admonishes that if anyone among them is wise and disciplined, or appears to be so to himself, let him show his wisdom and discipline more by living wisely and disciplined than by teaching others. …
Bonaventure
The second pillar of the house of wisdom is innocence in the mind. Augustine says that "peace is the tranquility of order," namely, when one humbly subjects himself to a superior, conducts himself equably toward an equal, and discreetly governs an inferior. All who are children of wisdom maintain this order. He who disturbs this peace destroys the house of wisdom. "He who is patient is governed by much wisdom; he who is impatient exalts his own folly." Blessed James says: "Who is wise and instructed among you? …
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