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Luke 17:23

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

Do not listen, He says, to anyone's persuasions that I have come here or there.

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Western Saints

Bede

And they will say to you: Look, there. Do not go, do not hurry. Although this sentence can be understood not only for a time, but also for a person. And indeed for a time, because there arose some who, calculating the courses of ages, would say they had found the certain year, day, and hour of the end of the world, against the authority of the Lord saying: It is not for you to know the times or the moments (Acts I). …

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Bonaventure

Third, as regards the condemnation of the opposition of deceiving heretics, he adds: And they will say to you: Behold here, and behold there. The Gloss: "Christ is in this person, or in this time." For heretics have sometimes dared and will dare to say this, and especially that son of perdition. …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 17 ↗