João 2
Alcuin of York
João 2:1
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Galilee is a province; Cana a village in it. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:3
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] She represents here the Synagogue, which challenges Christ to perform a miracle. It was customary with the Jews to ask for miracles. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:6
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Vessels to hold water were there, after the manner of the purifying of Jews. Among other traditions of the Pharisees, they observed frequent washings. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:9
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The servants are the doctors of the New Testament, who interpret the holy Scripture to others spiritually; the ruler of the feast is some lawyer, as Nicodemus, Gamaliel, or Saul. When to the former then is committed the word of the Gospel, hid under the letter of the law, it is the water made wine, being set before the ruler of the feast. And the three rows of guests at table in the house of the marriage are properly mentioned; the Church consisting of three orders of believers, the married, the continent, and the doctors. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:9
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The Triclinium is a circle of three couches, cline signifying couch: the ancients used to recline upon couches. And the Architriclinus is the one at the head of the Triclinium, i. e. the chief of the guests. Some say that among the Jews, He was a priest, and attended the marriage in order to instruct in the duties of the married state. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:10
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Christ has kept the good wine until now, i. e. He has deferred the Gospel till this, the sixth age. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He was the King of glory, and changed the elements because He was their Lord. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:12
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Our Lord's brethren are the relations of Mary and Joseph, not the sons of Mary and Joseph. For not only the blessed Virgin, but Joseph also, the witness of her chastity, abstained from all conjugal intercourse. Or Capernaum, we may interpret "a most beautiful village," and so it signifies the world, to which the Word of the Father came down. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:13
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And He went up to Jerusalem. The Gospels mention two journeys of our Lord to Jerusalem, one in the first year of His preaching, before John was sent to prison, which is the journey now spoken of; the other in the year of His Passion. Our Lord has set us here an example of careful obedience to the Divine commands. For if the Son of God fulfilled the injunctions of His own law, by keeping the festivals, like the rest, with what holy zeal should we servants prepare for and celebrate them? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:17
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Zeal, taken in a good sense, is a certain fervour of the Spirit, by which the mind, all human fears forgotten, is stirred up to the defence of the truth. To take the passage mystically, God enters His Church spiritually every day, and marks each one's behaviour there. Let us be careful then, when we are in God's Church, that we indulge not in stories, or jokes, or hatreds, or lusts, lest on a sudden He come and scourge us, and drive us out of His Church. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:20
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Note, that they allude here not to the first temple under Solomon, which was finished in seven years, but to the one rebuilt under Zorobabel. (Ezra 4:5) This was forty-six years building, in consequence of the hindrance raised by the enemies of the work. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
João 2:22
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] For before the resurrection they did not understand the Scriptures, because they had not yet received the Holy Ghost, Who was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:39) But on the day of the resurrection our Lord appeared and opened their meaning to His disciples; that they might understand what was said of Him in the Law and the Prophets. And then they believed the prediction of the Prophets that Christ would rise the third day, and the word which Jesus had spoken to them: Destroy this temple, &c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas