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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Clement of Alexandria
But who are the two or three gathered in the name of Christ in whose midst the Lord is? Does he not by the "three" mean husband, wife, and child? For a wife is bound to her husband by God. If, however, a man wishes to be undistracted, and prefers to avoid begetting children because of the business it involves, "let him remain unmarried," says the apostle, "even as I am." They explain that what the Lord meant was this. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Or otherwise; All His foregoing discourse had invited us to union; now to make us embrace peace more anxiously, He holds out a reward, promising to be in the midst of two or three.
Hilary of Poitiers
For He who is peace and charity, will set His place and habitation in good and peaceable dispositions.
Thomas Aquinas
It shall be done to them by my Father, who is in heaven, i.e., in the heights: or in heaven, i.e., in us. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them; a gathering of saints, not of worldly people. Ps 110:1: in the counsel of the just and in the congregation, great are the works of the Lord. Where then two or three. Charity is not in one alone, but among several; hence 1 John 4:16: he who abides in charity, abides in God, and God in him. Therefore I am in the midst of them.
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