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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Let not your mouth bring guilt on your flesh, and do not tell the messenger that it was an error. Why should God be angered by your speech and destroy the work of your hands? "What the Hebrew means is that if you are not able to do these things, do not promise to do them. For the words do not transgress to the spirit but are carried at once to the Lord by the angel present, who sticks to one man only as a companion. …
Bonaventure
Otherwise it would have been better not to vow: therefore he says: "And it is much better not to vow," that is, it is less evil, because without fault: "than after a vow not to render what was promised:" Second Peter two: "It would have been better for them not to have known the way of truth than after knowing it to turn back"; because Luke nine: "No one putting his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God."
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