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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
He turns and discusses this on all sides, desiring to prove that what had taken place was no novelty, but had been before typified many ages ago. How then can it be otherwise than absurd for those who had been set apart so long and who had obtained freedom, willingly to subject themselves to the yoke of bondage?
Theophylact of Ohrid
All of this is directed toward showing that everything that has now happened to us was prefigured many years before. How then, after this, is it not strange, having received freedom so many years before, to voluntarily become slaves again?
Oecumenius
"Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the bondwoman." If then we are not children of a bondwoman, nor of slaves, how do we submit ourselves to the servitude of the law? We are not, since Hagar is not our example, but of the Jews. For Sarah is our example.
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Let us, therefore, choose whether to call the righteous men of old the children of the bondwoman or of the free. Be it far from us to say, of the bondwoman; therefore if of the free, they pertain to the new testament in the Holy Spirit, whom, as making alive, the apostle opposes to the killing letter. For on what ground do they not belong to the grace of the new testament, from whose words and looks we convict and rebut such most frantic and ungrateful enemies of the same grace as these?
Thomas Aquinas
This freedom we obtain from Christ; hence he says, "by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free": "If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed" (Jn 8:36).
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