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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"Unto us their children, raising up Jesus." The name "Jesus" the brothers of the God-slayers take as the name of a man. Having said above that the Word was laid in the tomb, Paul — lest anyone think that he called the Word incorporeal — again calls Him Jesus and does not allow, for a single moment after the union of the two natures, any division in the incarnate Word. …
Oecumenius
Since the name Jesus is applied to the man and some therefore misunderstand, he anticipated and said that the Word was placed in a tomb, so that no one might suppose the Word to have been spoken of as incorporeal; again he calls him Jesus, giving no separation anywhere to the Word who was made flesh after the union, closing the mouths of the impious everywhere. [CHRYSOSTOM]
Cosmas Indicopleustes
Paul when he was discoursing in the synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia spoke thus: And we bring you good tidings of the promise made unto the fathers, how that God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Paul here, by Christ's having been begotten, understands his resurrection, and he too has decided that the second psalm has been spoken concerning him, as all the Apostles also have affirmed.
Western Saints
Bede
"Raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm." The holy Father Hilary thus remembers this place: "But what is now in the psalm: 'You are my Son; today I have begotten you' (Psalm II), does not pertain to the birth from the Virgin, nor to the regeneration of the bath, but to the Firstborn from the dead, according to apostolic authority. …
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