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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Going to the second, he said similarly. But he, answering, said: Yes, sir, and he did not go. However, the second son, who is the people of the Jews, replied to Moses: 'We will do everything that the Lord has spoken' (Exod. XXIV), but he did not go into the vineyard because, thinking himself the heir after the son of the household had been killed.
Thomas Aquinas
There follows the disobedience of the second: and first the command is presented, secondly the transgression. He says "coming to the other," that is, the Jewish people, or the clergy, or those who call themselves just; "he said in like manner. And he answering said: I go, sir." He professes that he will keep justice; hence the Jewish people says: "all things whatsoever the Lord shall command, we will do." So also clerics and all religious say. Hence he promised to go. …
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