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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Nevertheless, observe how the Devil is thwarted by the thing which He does. He heaps up scorn and reproaches against Christ, whereby it is made manifest that the Lord is not seditious. Otherwise He would not have been derided, when so great a danger was afloat, and that too from a people who were held in suspicion, and so given to change.
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
It is not without reason that He is arrayed by Herod in a white robe, as bearing a sign of His immaculate Passion, that the Lamb of God without spot would take upon Himself the sins of the world.
Bede
But Herod, with his soldiers, despised him, and mocking, arrayed him in a white garment and sent him back to Pilate. The white garment, in which he was arrayed, signifies the purity of his passion, since the spotless Lamb of God was about to take away the sins of the whole world. For he who was despised and mocked in a white garment, suffered and was buried in a pure body. …
Bonaventure
Fourth, as regards the foolishness of the prince who despised him, there is subjoined: But Herod with his army despised him and mocked him, clothing him in a white garment; he despised him, I say, as powerless, because he performed no sign; as ignorant, because he answered not a word; as foolish, because he did not defend himself against his accusers. Nor did he only despise him, but also mocked him. …
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