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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
When then the only-begotten Son was sent to them, the unbelieving Jews, wishing to be rid of the Heir, put Him to death by crucifying Him, and rejected Him by denying Him. Christ is the Heir and the Testator likewise. The Heir, because He survives His own death; and of the testament which He Himself bequeathed, He reaps as it were the hereditary profits in our advances.
Bonaventure
Second, with respect to the perverse design, it is added: When the tenants saw him, they deliberated among themselves, saying: This is the heir, by a conjecture of the truth: for they did not know with certain knowledge, as is said in 1 Corinthians 2: "Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory." Yet they knew, even if not through faith, through certain signs leading to the belief that he was the Messiah promised in the Law. …
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