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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Do not then cast all [the burden] on your teachers; do not [cast] all upon them who have the rule over you: ye also (he means) are able to edify one another. Which also he said in writing to the Thessalonians, "Edify one another, even as also ye do." (1 Thess. v. 11.) And again, "Comfort one another with these words." (1 Thess. iv. 18.) This we also now exhort you. If ye be willing, ye will have more success with each other than we can have. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Here the apostle speaks of the gift of teaching, which the chosen bishop received. "By prophecy," that is, by the command of the Holy Spirit, as was said above. That is, of bishops. For it was not priests who ordained a bishop. See what amazing power the laying on of priestly hands has.
Western Saints
Jerome
The apostle clearly teaches that presbyters are the same as bishops.… Writing to Titus the apostle says, "For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are wanting, and appoint presbyters in every city, as I had instructed. If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of wantonness or unruly. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, do not neglect, he gives the reason for this advice: first, the cause from the gift received; second, the cause from the reward expected, at take heed to yourself. In regard to the first he does two things: first, he gives the reason; second, he shows how that which is contained in the reason can be fulfilled, at meditate upon these things. He says, therefore: do not neglect the grace that is in you. …
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