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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"From which some having swerved have turned aside to vain jangling." He has well said, "swerved," for it requires skill, to shoot straight and not beside the mark, to have the direction of the Spirit. For there are many things to turn us aside from the right course, and we should look but to one object.
Gregory of Nyssa
What is this vain juggling with words? Is he aware that it is God of Whom he speaks, Who was in the beginning and is in the Father, nor was there any time when He was not? He knows not what he says nor whereof he affirms, but he endeavours, as though he were constructing the pedigree of a mere man, to apply to the Lord of all creation the language which properly belongs to our nature here below.
Theophylact of Ohrid
The word ἀστοχήσαντες is used of those who shoot poorly. Therefore here too, he says, skill is needed in order to throw straight and not miss the target. But some have departed from love and faith, and as a result have turned aside to vain talk. And how this happens, he adds the following.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Above he showed the value and usefulness of the virtues; here he explains why they are needed, namely, because whoever lacks them runs into the danger of false doctrine. In regard to this he does two things: first, he shows the falsity of the doctrine into which they lead; second, the false condition of those who teach it, at desiring to be. He says, therefore: the end of the commandment is charity, and these are the sources of the law from which some flee: they have spoken vain things, everyone to his neighbor (Ps 11:3). …
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