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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
He did not say directly what this is, but of course he gives us to understand that he says this about every spiritual teaching. Thus he calls either the powers to perform miracles, or to live like angels, in the sense of not needing anything of this world, but looking toward the future, and already here receiving the immaterial and spiritual pledge of the life to come.
Oecumenius
"the powers of the age to come." Powers of the coming age. That there will certainly be a resurrection, and that we shall all give an account of the life we have lived, and that both punishment and rest are inescapable, and such things, for these indeed are the powers of the coming age. Or that the pledge of the coming age is faith in Christ. Powers of the coming age, Instead of what the future age can teach. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
289 (cont.). – Also in the present day they had instruction of His doctrine; hence, he says, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God. That word is called good, because it is the word of eternal life: 'Lord, to whom shall we go; you have the words of eternal life' (Jn. 6:69); 'How sweet are your words to my palate' (Ps. 119:103). But he says, tasted, because it not only enlightens the intellect, but also refreshes the affections, in which there is a certain savoring: 'Taste and see that the Lord is sweet' (Ps. 33:8). 290. …
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