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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Perverse disputings," that is, leisure or conversation, or he may mean intercommunication, and that as infected sheep by contact communicate disease to the sound, so do these bad men. "Destitute of the truth, thinking that gain is godliness." Observe what evils are produced by strifes of words. The love of gain, ignorance, and pride; for pride is engendered by ignorance. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
By "pouring from empty to empty" – diatribe – idle conversations were usually meant. Or because just as mangy sheep, when they rub against healthy ones, infect them too with their disease, so also the heterodox rub up against others with their conversations, paratribomenoi, and corrupt them. Do you see that disputes give birth to shameful gain? And rightly so. …
Oecumenius
Friction. The transmission of the disease of bad doctrines, from the contact of miserable sheep. For those who come into contact are filled with the disease, along with the healthy ones. imagining that godliness is a means of gain. Do you know that even battles of words produce shameful profit? It is no wonder, for those who contend with words attract more students, making a profit from them, whether monetary gain. They pretend virtue in order to amass wealth through it. Depart from such people. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But this is not in all hearts, but in some. And he describes their condition: the first pertains to a defect in natural light; the second to defect in knowledge; the third to the defect of disordered love. In regard to the first he says, of men corrupted in mind, i.e., in natural reason, because they have a perverse judgment: They are corrupt and are become abominable in their ways (Ps 13:2). …
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