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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
And some fell among thorns; by which are marked souls which care for many things. For thorns are cares.
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
For who would ever have believed me if I had wished to interpret thorns as riches, especially since the former prick while the latter delight? And yet they are thorns, because they tear the mind with the prickings of their thoughts, and when they drag it all the way to sin, they cause it to bleed as if by an inflicted wound. These, in this passage, as another evangelist attests, the Lord calls not simply riches, but deceitful riches, and rightly so. …
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