Mateus 3
Ambrose of Milan · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Mateus 3:13
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Ambrosiaster. Serm. x. 5.) Scripture tells of many wonders wrought at various times in this river; as that, among others, in the Psalms, Jordan, was driven backwards; (Ps. 114:3.) before the water was driven back, now sins are turned back in its current; as Elijah divided the waters of old, so Christ the Lord wrought in the same Jordan the separation of sin. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:15
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Ambrosiaster. Serm. xii. 1.) Also like a wise master inculcating His doctrines as much by His own practice, as by word of mouth, He did that which He commanded all His disciples to do. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:16
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Ambrosiaster. Serm. xii. 4.) For, as we have said, when the Saviour was washed, then the water was cleansed for our baptism, that a laver might be ministered to the people who were to come. Moreover, it behoved that in Christ's baptism should be signified those things which the faithful obtain by baptism. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:17
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Ambrosiaster. Serm. x. 1.) And no wonder that the mystery of the Trinity is not wanting to the Lord's laver, when even our laver contains the sacrament of the Trinity. The Lord willed to show in His own case what He was after to ordain for men. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas