Lucas 2

Basil of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Lucas 2:29

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Hom. de grat. act.) If you examine the words of the righteous, you will find that they all sorrow over this world and its mournful delay. Alas me! says David, that my habitation is prolonged. (Ps. 120:5.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Lucas 2:29-30

Now, it is a custom in Scripture to call the Christ of God, salvation, as Simeon says: "Now let your servant depart in peace, O Lord, because my eyes have seen your salvation." Therefore let us subject ourselves to God, because from him is salvation. He explains what salvation is. It is not some mere active force, which provides us with a certain grace for deliverance from weakness and for the good health of our body. What then is salvation?"For he is my God and my Savior: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more." The Son, who is from God, is our God. He himself is also Savior of the human race, who supports our weakness, who corrects the disturbance that springs up in our souls from temptations. — HOMILY ON PSALM 61.2

Lucas 2:34

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ep. 260. ad Opt.) The sign which is spoken against is called in Scripture, the cross. For Moses, it says, made a brazen serpent, and placed it for a sign. (Numb. 21:8.) (ubi sup.) For a sign betokens something marvellous and mysterious, which is seen indeed by the simple minded. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Lucas 2:35

"That the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed" means that after the scandal which happened at the cross of Christ to both the disciples and to Mary herself, some swift healing will follow from the Lord, confirming their hearts in their faith in him. Thus we see that even Peter, after having stumbled, clung more firmly to his faith in Christ. What was human, therefore, was proven unsound in order that the power of the Lord might be manifested. — LETTER 260

Lucas 2:51-52

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (in Const. Mon. 4.) But from His very first years being obedient to His parents, He endured all bodily labours, humbly and reverently. For since His parents were honest and just, yet at the same time poor, and ill supplied with the necessaries of life, (as the stable which administered to the holy birth bears witness,) it is plain that they continually underwent bodily fatigue in providing for their daily wants. But Jesus being obedient to them, as the Scriptures testify, even in sustaining labours, submitted Himself to a complete subjection. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas