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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Or he enquires not for the sake of the commands, but which is the first and great commandment, that seeing all that God commands is great, he may have occasion to cavil whatever the answer be.
Thomas Aquinas
Hence he says, master, which is the great commandment in the law? Yet this question seemed calumnious and presumptuous: calumnious, because all the commandments of God are great; Proverbs 6:23: the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light. Likewise, he asked in an indeterminate way, because all are great, so that if he responded about one, the questioner would object about another. …
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