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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Consider also how fiercely the devil wages war. He was able to carry away one of the twelve apostles, who raised the dead, performed miracles, and heard the spiritual and life-giving teaching of the Lord. And where, then, is hope of salvation for us, when from our youth we have voluntarily enslaved ourselves to evil? …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Our Lord corrected Peter's answer when he said, Did I not choose you Twelve? And one of you is a devil. First, we have the Lord's reply; secondly, the Evangelist's explanation of it (v 72). Because Peter was great-hearted and included all in his answer, We have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of God, it seemed that all of them would arrive at eternal life. And so our Lord excluded Judas from this community of believers. …
Bonaventure
"Now he was speaking of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot; for he was about to betray him, though he was one of the twelve." This was said so that they might fear and so that they might not be surprised at the others who had departed, because they had not been so specially chosen. Concerning this election of the twelve, it is said in Matthew 10: "And having called the twelve together, he gave them power"; Luke 6: "He chose twelve from among them." This election was prefigured in Joshua 4: "Choose for yourself twelve men, one from each."
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