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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
No careless search do the Jews make about Christ, for they were found going through every idea and through varied ideas gathering the perception of the truth. For having first marvelled through His Words, and already taken the eminent confidence of His instructions as a guide to their conjecturing something great about Him, they search besides the Divine Scripture, thinking to find thence a most unerring conception of Him: for so is its nature. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
The more foolish ones say that Christ will not come from Galilee, but from Bethlehem and from the seed of David. But they said this with malicious intent, and not like Nathanael. He too said, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" (John 1:46), but he spoke as a man learned and precise in the Law. Therefore the Lord also praised him, since he said this not with malicious intent, but from precise knowledge of the Law. But these men craftily say that Christ will not come from Galilee. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
They support their objection by the authority of Scripture when they say, Does not Scripture say that the Christ will come from the seed of David, and from David's town of Bethlehem? We read in Jeremiah (23:5) that Jesus would come from the seed of David: "I will raise up a just branch for David." And we see that David was "the anointed of God" (2 Sm 23:1). In Micah (5:2) we read that Jesus would come from Bethlehem: "And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah: from you there will come forth, for me, a ruler of Israel."
Bonaventure
"Does not the Scripture say: That he is of the seed of David?" 2 Kings 7: "I will raise up your seed after you, which shall proceed from your womb, and I will establish his kingdom, and I will make firm the throne of his kingdom forever"; and the Psalm: "Of the fruit of your womb I will set upon your throne." "And from Bethlehem the town where David was, does the Christ come?" Micah 5: "And you Bethlehem Ephratah, you are little among the thousands of Judah: for out of you shall come forth he who is to be ruler in Israel." And thus …
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