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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"One man esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike." Here he seems to me to be giving a gentle hint about fasting. For it is not unlikely that some who fasted were always judging those who did not, or among the observances it is likely that there were some that on fixed days abstained, and on fixed days did not. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Some exhausted themselves by not eating or abstained from pork on certain days, while others always ate food and condemned those who fasted. About these he says that one judges one way and another differently, whereas the matter here is indifferent. Therefore one must not attack the brethren on account of this. In this he makes allowance for those being rebuked, because they were still new in the faith. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, for one judges, he exemplifies what he had said. First, he proposes that human opinions vary, saying: I say that to his own lord he stands or falls . . . for one judges between day and day, i.e., he judges between one day and another, so that he abstains on one day and not on another. This seems to refer to those weak in faith, who suppose that the practices of the law must still be observed. …
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