ACC ~ Colossians 2 v18c

SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS. ORIGEN: There is a corporeal eye, by which we see those earthly things, an eye according to the sense of the flesh. Scripture says of it, “He walks in vain, puffed up by the sense of the flesh.” We have another eye, opposed to this one. It is better and perceives divine things. But it was a blind eye in us. Jesus came to enable it to see, so that those who were blind might see and those who saw might become blind. HOMILIES ON LUKE 16.8.

SPIRITUAL ARROGANCE. CHRYSOSTOM: For [this man] has not seen angels and yet acts as though he had. Therefore Paul says, “vainly puffed up by his carnal mind,” not about any true fact. About this doctrine, he is puffed up and puts forward a false humility. He acts and thinks carnally, not spiritually. His reasoning is simply human reason alone. HOMILIES ON COLOSSIANS 7.

AMBROSIASTER: It happens that persons become bound up with the worship of earthly things under the form of philosophy, so that, held by these, they do not rise. … They end up simulating true religion. They become inflated by watching the movements of the stars, which Paul calls angels, not by divine authority but by human superstition, which brings nothing but damnation. COMMENTARY ON THE LETTER TO THE COLOSSIANS.

PELAGIUS: Let no one, haughty with feigned humility and telling the lie that he sees angels, vainly exalt himself above other men; these voice their “visions” from the heart. Let the man who only seems to be humble and religious not be imitated. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE LETTER TO THE COLOSSIANS.

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