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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming unto you." For there he glances both at them and at certain others, casting down their highmindedness: since the love of preeminence is in fault, when men abuse the absence of their teacher for their own self-will. For when he addresses himself unto the people, observe how he does it by way of appeal to their sense of shame; when unto the originators of the mischief, his manner is more vehement. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Having said, "I sent Timothy to you," in order to prevent them from becoming more careless because of this, he adds: although I myself am not coming now, and my absence has given some occasion for pride, for this very reason I will come later. He shows the childishness of their thinking; for it is characteristic only of children to behave disorderly when the teacher is not with them. Who then are these puffed up ones? …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, As though I were not coming to you, he threatens them with the rod of correction. First, he shows that they deserve the rod of correction, saying: As though I were not coming to you, some are arrogant, as though not fearing to be convicted of pride by me; and yet they deserved the rod, because the humble are corrected by words alone, but the proud need stripes: "Look on all that are proud, and confound them and crush the wicked in their place" (Jb 40:7).
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