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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Do you mark what good came of the storm? Why then it was no mark of their being forsaken, that the storm came upon them. Now this that happened was in consequence of the season of the year; but the wonder is greater, that at such a season they were saved from the midst of the dangers, both he, and for his sake the rest, and this too in the Hadriatic.
Western Saints
Cassiodorus
"But the barbarians showed us no small courtesy," etc. Everyone being now on the shore, as terrible cold was upon them and they were weakened by long fasting, the barbarian inhabitants of the place supplied them with the provisions of courtesy. And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks, and had put them on the fire, a viper that happened to be there bit and clung to his hand. …
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