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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
The third angel forbids people from worshiping the beast and from receiving its mark. For to worship someone as a god other than the true and living God is most impious.
Cyprian
Of the idols which the Gentiles think to be gods. In the Wisdom of Solomon: "All the idols of the nations they counted gods, which neither have the use of their eyes for seeing, nor their nostrils to receive breath, nor their ears for hearing, nor the fingers on their hands for handling; but their feet also are slow to walk. For man made them; and he who has borrowed his breath, he fashioned them. But no man will be able to fashion a god like to himself. For since he is mortal, he fashioneth a dead thing with wicked hands. …
Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. ↗
Western Saints
Bede
And receive a mark on his forehead, etc. By saying on the forehead or on the hand, he signifies that the devil marks some by a wicked profession, and others only by their deeds.
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