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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"Finding no cause of death in Him, they asked Pilate to kill Him." He says that the death penalty was desired by them. He brings Pilate onto the scene so that, on the one hand, the suffering might be made widely known, and on the other, they might subject themselves to a greater accusation as having handed Christ over to a foreign man. And he did not say "demanded," but "asked." They requested, he says, permission for the killing, although Pilate was, as it were, unwilling. …
Western Saints
Hippolytus of Rome
But since also they frame an account concerning the action of the zodiacal signs, to which they say the creatures that are procreated are assimilated, neither shall we omit this: as, for instance, that one born in Leo will be brave; and that one born in Virgo will have long straight hair, be of a fair complexion, childless, modest. These statements, however, and others similar to them, are rather deserving of laughter than serious consideration. …
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