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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
He makes a comparison between the perfect and the imperfect and says that the perfect, being bold in faith, eats everything without distinction, while the imperfect, being weak, eats vegetables. Therefore the latter deserves healing, not defeat.
Clement of Alexandria
"Now the weak eateth herbs," according to the noble apostle.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, for one believes, he explains what he had said: first, he shows who are weak in faith; second, how disputes over opinions are to be avoided, at let him who eats. In regard to the first it should be noted that among the observances of the law one dealt with distinguishing among foods, because some foods were forbidden in the law, as is clear from Leviticus 11:2 et seq.; and indeed every day it was necessary to apply this observance or not. …
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