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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
But these teachers may be understood very reasonably to be those aged men, of whom he presently saith, "I am wiser than mine elders" (ver. 100). And this seemeth to me to be repeated here thus, that that age of His which is well known to us in the Gospel might be called to our remembrance; the age of boyhood, during which He was sitting among the aged, understanding more than all His teachers. …
Bonaventure
The second benefit of keeping the commandments of God is the understanding of the sacred Scriptures; the Psalm: "I have understood above the ancients, because I have sought your commandments." But how we may arrive at the understanding of the sacred Scriptures, Gregory shows: whence concerning the passage that the disciples, when they saw Jesus, did not understand him, but when they heard him speaking, then they understood him, Gregory says there that "by hearing God's precepts the disciples were not illuminated, but by doing them …
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