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Matthew 17:18

Western Saints

Jerome

And they said, why could we not cast him out? Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. Amen I say to you. This is what he says in another place: Whatever you ask in my name, believing, you will receive (John 15:2). Therefore, whenever we do not receive, it is not due to the impossibility of the one granting, but the fault of those praying.

Commentary on Matthew ↗

Thomas Aquinas

And this is the way, because he rebuked him, because through his sin this had befallen him; Proverbs 6:2: you are ensnared with the words of your mouth, and caught with your own words. Or he rebuked him, namely the demon. Then follows the effect: and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour, for he spoke, and they were made, Psalm 148:5.

Commentary on Matthew ↗

Remigius of Rheims

In which deed He left an example to preachers to attack sins, but to assist men.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗