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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he would not understand, that he might do good" (ver. 3). Ye see that he attributeth that to the will: for there are men who would understand and cannot, and there are men who would not understand, and therefore understand not. "He would not understand, that he might do good."
Ambrose of Milan
What shall I say about Judas the traitor, who sought after greed and found sacrilege, saying: What will you give me, and I will hand him over to you (Matt. XXVI, 15)? Not satisfied with looting the spoils of the poor, he reached the fullness of the gravest crimes by committing crimes, mixing the sacraments of charity with wicked acts, when he said: He whom I shall kiss, he is: hold him (Ibid., 48); so that there can be no doubt that what was said about him is true: The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. …
Thomas Aquinas
Next he sets forth the progress from the root. And first he sets forth the sins of the mouth. Second, of the heart and of action. A man commits sin by the mouth in two ways: either through open malice, when he lies openly; and this is what he says: "The words of his mouth are iniquity": Job 6: "You shall not find iniquity in my mouth." Or through hidden fraud; and this is "deceit": Jer. 9: "Their tongue is a wounding arrow; it has spoken deceit." In the heart one sins in two ways: by contempt for the good, and by the pursuit of evil. …
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