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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase." That is, I first cast the word into the ground; but, in order that the seeds might not wither away through temptations, Apollos added his own part. But the whole was of God.
Theophylact of Ohrid
I, he says, was the first to sow the preaching; but Apollos, by his constant teaching, did not allow the seed to wither from the heat of the temptations of the evil one, but God made you grow.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, I planted, he stresses a similarity between ministers and husbandmen, where two differences in their activities should be noted: one is the difference between the activity of one minister and that of another. In regard to this he says: I planted, i.e., in preaching to you I was like a planter, because I was the first one to preach the faith to you: "I have put my words in your mouth, that you might plant the heavens" (Is 51:16); Apollos watered, i.e., he acted as a person who waters plants to nourish them and make …
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