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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
He also said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. They answered and said to him: We don't know. Then Jesus also replied to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. But the Truth cannot lie, and he said: Neither do I tell you. From this, he shows that they know but refuse to answer, and he knows but refuses to say, because they keep silent about what they know. …
Thomas Aquinas
"And answering they said: we know not." They lie. Ps 26:12: "Iniquity hath lied to itself." Then Christ's response is presented: "neither do I tell you." In this is contained an example, that from him who will not say what he knows, the Lord hides other things; hence Wis 7:13: "Without guile I learned, and without envy do I communicate."
Rabanus Maurus
There are two reasons why the knowledge of truth should be kept back from those who ask; either when he who asks is unfit to receive, or from his hatred or contempt of the truth is unworthy to have that which he asks opened to him.
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