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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
He is now going again to rebuke them more vehemently than before. Wherefore he again does away with every suspicion of hatred, and makes a great effort beforehand to correct misapprehension. Do not then, he says, mind words or accusations, but observe that it is not in any hostile spirit that I say this. For it is not likely that the same person should desire their salvation, and not desire it only, but even pray for it, and yet should also hate them, and feel aversion to them. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Having intended to strike a blow against the Jews, he prefaces it with a brief word, lest they think that his subsequent speech proceeds from hostility toward them, and he speaks of the "desire of the heart," that is, of his own wish, of his strong desire, even of his prayer for the Jews, that they might not only be freed from punishment, but also be saved. How then, he says, can I be hostile toward you, when I pray to God for your salvation?
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
After showing how the gentiles have been called to faith by the election of God's grace and also some of the Jews, i.e., a minority who did not stumble and fall, the Apostle now discusses in more detail the fall of the Jews. In regard to this he does three things. …
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