Lucas 19
Ephrem the Syrian · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 19:5
Zacchaeus was praying in his heart as follows, "Happy the one who is worthy that this just man should enter into his dwelling." The Lord said to him, "Hurry, come down, Zacchaeus." Hurry and come down from the fig tree, because it is with you that I will be staying. The first fig tree of Adam will be forgotten, because of the last fig tree of the chief tax collector, and the name of the guilty Adam will be forgotten because of the innocent Zacchaeus. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 20
Lucas 19:8
Seeing he knew his thoughts, he said, "Just as he knows this, he knows also all that I have done." He therefore said, "All that I have unjustly received, I give back fourfold." — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 20
Lucas 19:30
"Untie the donkey and bring it to me." He began with a manger and finished with a donkey, in Bethlehem with a manger, in Jerusalem with a donkey. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 18.1
Lucas 19:39-40
The children were shouting and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" This displeased the chief priests and the scribes, and they said to him, "Do you not hear what these are saying?" That means, "If these praises do not please you, make them keep silent." At his birth and at his death, children were intertwined in the crown of his sufferings. When he met Christ, the infant John jumped for joy within the womb. Children were murdered at his birth. They were like the grapes of his wedding feast. Children also proclaimed his praise when the time of his death approached. Jerusalem was in turmoil at his birth, just as it was in turmoil again and trembling the day that he entered it. When the scribes heard, they were displeased, and they were saying to him, "Stop them!" he said to them, "If these become silent, the stones will cry out." The scribes preferred that the children would cry out rather than the stones. This, however, was reserved for later, because the stones were crying out at the time of his crucifixion, but those with words were silent. Speechless things proclaimed his greatness. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 118.2