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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Filled with the Holy Ghost, looked upon him, and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou child of the devil:" and observe, this is not abuse, but accusation: for so ought forward, impudent people to be rebuked "thou enemy of all righteousness;" here he lays bare what was in the thoughts of the man, while under pretext of saving he was ruining the proconsul: "wilt thou not cease," he says, "to pervert the ways of the Lord?" (He says it) both confidently, It is not with us thou art warring, nor art thou fighting (with us), but …
Theophylact of Ohrid
No kind of subtlety, he says, remained which you did not possess. He rightly said "all subtlety," because the sorcerer was a flatterer and a liar. And he calls him "son of the devil" because he was doing the devil's work.
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