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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and threatening. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? …
Western Saints
Jerome
This is not found in most codices: it is clear that from the arrangement and stability of the elements, both fair and rainy days can be predicted. However, the scribes and Pharisees, who seemed to be experts in the law, could not understand the advent of the Savior from the prophecy of the prophets.
Thomas Aquinas
Then he reproves them, and first for their laziness in believing divine things. For if someone has a defect from the nature of his senses, he has an excuse; but when he has wisdom in earthly things and laziness in spiritual things, he is to be reproved; Wis. 13:1: all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God. And first he shows their shrewdness in earthly things; second, their laziness in spiritual things. He says therefore but he answering, said: when it is evening etc. This has both a literal and a mystical sense. …
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