Lucas 19
Basil of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 19:12
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (in Esai. c. 13. 13.) Noble, not only in respect of His Godhead, but of His manhood, being sprung from the seed of David according to the flesh. He went into a far country, separated not so much by distance of place as by actual condition. For God Himself is nigh to every one of us, when our good works bind us to Him. And He is afar off, as often as by cleaving to destruction, we remove ourselves away from Him. To this earthly country then He came at a distance from God, that He might receive the kingdom of the Gentiles, according to the Psalm, Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. (Ps. 2:8.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:32
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] So likewise should we set about even the lowest works with the greatest zeal and affection, knowing that whatever is done with God before our eyes is not slight, but meet for the kingdom of heaven. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas