Lucas 17
Eusebius of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 17:23
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] As if he said, If at the coming of Antichrist, his fame shall be spread abroad, as though Christ had appeared, go not out, nor follow him. For it cannot be that He who was once seen on earth, shall any more dwell in the corners of the earth. It will therefore be he of whom we speak, not the true Christ. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 17:24
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] For this is the clear sign of the second coming of our Saviour, that suddenly the lustre of His coming shall fill the whole world; and so it follows, For as the lightning that lighteneth, &c. For He will not appear walking upon the earth, as any common man, but will illuminate our whole universe, manifesting to all men the radiance of His divinity. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 17:29
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Having used the example of the deluge, that no one might expect a future deluge by water, our Lord cites, secondly, the example of Lot, to show the manner of the destruction of the wicked, namely, that the wrath of God would descend upon them by fire from heaven. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 17:30
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He does not say that fire came down from heaven upon the wicked Sodomites before that Lot went out from them, just as the deluge did not swallow up the inhabitants of the earth before that Noah entered the ark; for as long as Noah and Lot dwelt with the wicked, God suspended His anger that they might not perish together with the sinners, but when He would destroy those, He withdrew the righteous. So also at the end of the world, the consummation shall not come before all the just are separated from the wicked. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 17:31-32
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He hereby implies that a persecution will come from the son of perdition upon Christ's faithful. By that day then He means the time previous to the end of the world, in which let not him who is flying return, nor care to lose his goods, lest he imitate Lot's wife, who when she fled out of the city of Sodom, turning back, died, and became a pillar of salt. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 17:37
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or by the eagles feeding on the dead animals, he has here described the rulers of the world, and those who shall at that time persecute the saints of God, in whose power are left all those who are unworthy of being taken up, who are called the body or carcase. Or by the eagles are meant the avenging powers which shall fly about to torment the wicked. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas