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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One:" he still says, "the Just One," wishing to check them: "of Whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers"-two charges he lays against them-"who have received the Law by the disposition of Angels, and have not kept it."
Theophylact of Ohrid
"Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?" If your fathers killed these foreheralds, then there is nothing surprising that I, who preach the One foretold by them, will be killed by you, who take too much pride in your ancestors. "They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One." He says "the Righteous One," showing that He was unjustly killed by them, because if He is righteous, then those who killed Him are very much in the wrong. He calls Him righteous because even they could not deny this. …
Oecumenius
He calls him righteous, showing that if he is righteous, those who killed him are exceedingly unjust. And he calls him righteous, which even they could not deny. For nowhere, even being very stubborn, did they accuse him of any injustice. For how could they, who had not even a roof? But he called Jesus righteous, wishing to draw them.
Western Saints
Bonaventure
The third high reputation concerns merits, miracles and martyrdom. And this certainty of truth appears when a man wills to die for the truth he preaches, such as Isaiah who was cut up, Ezechiel who was killed, Jeremiah and also the other prophets. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? If heretics claim they too died for the truth and gained merits, yet they do not have the third requirement, miracles. For it was never heard that a heretic performed a miracle either before, after, or at the time of his death.
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