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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
O deep unlearning, and understanding darkened with unmixed strong drink: the heart of this people is waxen fat, as it is written. For indeed they perceive not a whit of those things which they ought clearly to understand, and both think and speak things worthy of laughter. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Looking at what was visible and not understanding that He is also God, they murmured as though the Lord were deceiving them, and said, "Is not this the son of Joseph?" But the Savior Himself does not answer them, "I am not the son of Joseph," for they could not comprehend the ineffable birth from the Virgin. And if their mind could not grasp the birth according to the flesh, still less could it grasp the pre-eternal birth from the Father.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
931 He says those who complained said: Is he not the son of Joseph? For since they were earthly minded, they only considered Christ's physical generation, which hindered them from recognizing his spiritual and eternal generation. And so we see them speaking only of earthly things, "He who is of earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things" (above 3:31), and not understanding what is spiritual. Thus they said: How then can he say that he has come down from heaven? …
Bonaventure
"And they said: Is this not the son of Joseph?" Luke three: "He was beginning to be about thirty years old, as was supposed, the son of Joseph"; "whose father and mother we know," from the earth, not from heaven; Matthew thirteen: "Is this not the carpenter's son, and is not his mother called Mary, and are not his brothers and sisters among us?" "How then does this man say that he descended from heaven?" since we know that he was born on earth. …
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