Lucas 19
Eusebius of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 19:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] There were some who thought that our Saviour's kingdom would commence at His first coming, and they were expecting it shortly to appear when He was preparing to go up to Jerusalem; so astonished were they by the divine miracles which He did. He therefore informs them, that He should not receive the kingdom from His Father until He had left mankind to go to His Father. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:12
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or by His setting out into a far country, He denotes His own ascension from earth to heaven. But when He adds, To receive for himself a kingdom, and to return; He points out His second appearance, when He shall come as a King and in great glory. He first of all calls Himself a man, because of His nativity in the flesh, then noble; not yet a King, because as yet at His first appearance He exercised no kingly power. It is also well said to obtain for Himself a kingdom, according to Daniel, Behold one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and a kingdom was given to him. (Dan. 7:13.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:13
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] By those then who receive the pounds, He means His disciples, giving a pound to each, since He entrusts to all an equal stewardship; He bade them put it out to use, as it follows, Occupy till I come. Now there was no other employment but to preach the doctrine of His kingdom to those who would hear it. But there is one and the same doctrine for all, one faith, one baptism. And therefore is one pound given to each. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:14
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] By citizens He signifies the Jews, who were sprung from the same lineage according to the flesh, and with whom He joined in the customs of the law. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:15
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] After our Saviour had instructed them in the things belonging to His first coming, He proceeds to set forth His second coming with majesty and great glory, saying, And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:41-44
These things took place in this way in the second year of the reign of Vespasian in agreement with the prophetic pronouncements of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. By divine power, he foresaw these events as if already present and wept over them and mourned, according to the writings of the holy Evangelists. They add his own words, when on one occasion he spoke as if to Jerusalem itself. "Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! Now they are hid from your eyes. For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side, and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation." On another occasion, as if concerning the people, he said, "There will be great distress in the land and wrath on this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captives into all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the nations be fulfilled." Again he says, "When you shall see Jerusalem encircled by an army, then know that its desolation is near." If one should compare the words of our Savior with the other narratives of the historian, how could he help but marvel and confess the truly divine and supernaturally wonderful foreknowledge and prophecy of our Savior? — ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 3.7
Lucas 19:42
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He here declares that His coming was to bring peace to the whole world. For unto this He came, that He should preach both to them that were near, and those that were afar off. But as they did not wish to receive the peace that was announced to them, it was hid from them. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:43-44
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And therefore the siege which was shortly to come upon them He most expressly foretells, adding, For the days shall come upon thee, &c. But how these things were fulfilled we may gather from what is delivered to us by Josephus, who though he was a Jew, related each event as it toot place, in exact accordance with Christ's prophecies. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas