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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"For My time is not yet fulfilled." And yet He was about to be crucified at the coming Passover. "How then went He not up also? for if He went not up because the time was not yet come, He ought not to have gone up at all." But He went not up for this purpose, that He might suffer, but that He might instruct them. "But wherefore secretly? since He might by going openly both have been amidst them, and have restrained their unruly impulses as He often did." It was because He would not do this continually. …
Cyril of Alexandria
The Lord now says clearly that He will not feast with the Jews, or go with them, to partake with them in their rejoicing in shadows. For that which is once said to a few, albeit reputed His brethren, will be extended in its force to the whole race of Israel. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
So He sends the brothers to the feast, showing that He does not compel them to remain with Him if they do not wish to. Look, then. Against the twofold accusation brought against Him, of cowardice and love of glory, He also makes a twofold defense. Against the accusation of cowardice, He says that I reprove the works of the world, that is, of those who care about worldly things. And I would not reprove if I were cowardly, as you think. Against the accusation of love of glory, He does not compel them to remain with Him. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Go ye up to this feast." What means "to this"? Where ye seek human glory. What means "to this"? Where ye wish to prolong carnal joys, not to meditate on eternal joys. "I go not up to this feast, because my time is not yet full come." On this feast-day you seek human glory; but my time, that is, the time of my glory, is not yet come. That will be my feast-day, not running before and passing over these days, but remaining for ever; that will be festivity, joy without end, eternity without a blot, serenity without a cloud.
Thomas Aquinas
Our Lord refuses to go when he says, You yourselves go up for this feast. I, however, will not go up for this festival. For just as there are two kinds of glory, so there are two different feasts. Worldly people have temporal feasts, that is, their own enjoyments and banquets and such exterior pleasures. "The Lord called for weeping and mourning... and look at the rejoicing and gladness" (Is 22:12); "I hate your feasts" (Is 1:14). …
Bonaventure
"Go you up to this feast day:" but because the world hates me and persecutes me, "I will not go up to this feast day, because my time is not yet fulfilled;" in which I must suffer, concerning which above in chapter 2: "Woman, my hour has not yet come." Just as in the incarnation he observed the fullness of time, so also in the passion: Galatians 4: "But when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son," etc. …
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