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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
How then does the apostle say in another place: "they will increase unto more ungodliness" (2 Tim. 2:16)? There he affirms that heretics, having begun to introduce novelties and errors, do not stop, but constantly invent newer ones. Here, however, he affirms that they will not deceive or carry away many, although at first they may seem to lead some astray, but they themselves will soon be exposed. Therefore he adds the following. If you do not believe, learn from what happened to those sorcerers. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
So the heretics discuss not to find the truth, but with a dogged determination to gain the victory one way or another, that they may gather, as the prophet says, what they have not brought forth. For those whom they lead astray are Christians already born of the gospel, whom the Christian profession of the heretics misleads. Thus they make riches not with judgment, but with inconsiderate haste. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, but they shall proceed no farther, he shows how they are restrained: first, he shows that they must be hindered; second, how to hinder them, at for their folly. In regard to the first it should be noted that the desire to hurt is present in a man of himself; but the power to hurt comes from God's permission. And God does not permit the wicked to inflict as much harm as they would like, but he sets a limit: hitherto you shall come, and shall go no further; and here you shall break your swelling waves (Job 38:11). …
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