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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Hilary of Poitiers
On those whom He healed He enjoined silence, whence it follows, And he charged them that they should not make him known. For his restored health was a witness to each man. And by commanding them to hold their peace, He avoids all ostentation of Himself, and at the same time notwithstanding affords a knowledge of Himself in that very admonition to hold their peace; for the observance of silence proceeds from that very thing which is to be kept silent.
Thomas Aquinas
How? He ordered them not to make him known. Why? In order to give us an example to avoid human glory, as it says above (6:1), and to spare the Pharisees, who were slandering him for his actions.
Remigius of Rheims
And He also gives them command that they should not make Him known, that they might not by persecuting Him be put into a worse state.
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