Mateus 20
Hilary of Poitiers · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Mateus 20:7
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] These then are sent into the vineyard, Go ye also into my vineyard. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 20:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And this murmur of the labourers corresponds with the frowardness of this nation, which even in the time of Moses were stiff-necked. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 20:21
The literal sense of this is that the mother begged the Lord for the sake of her two sons. But the spiritual sense is deeper and full of symbolic significance: Think of the analogy as that between the disciples of John the Baptist and the apostles. Both [groups] suffered. Both [groups] were to die. They were the two sons of Israel who were struggling against the Pharisees. After John had suffered and died, some of his disciples came to inquire of the Lord. The supplication is that both [groups] of these callings might be equally treated in the kingdom, since both [groups] believed in the gospel of Christ. — Commentary on Matthew 20.11
Mateus 20:22
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] They know not what they ask, because there was no doubt of the future glory of the Apostles; His former discourse had assured them that they should judge the world. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 20:23
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The Lord therefore commends their faith, in that He says that they are able to suffer martyrdom together with Him; but, To sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but for whom it is prepared of my Father, Though indeed, as far as we can judge, that honour is so set apart for others, as that the Apostles shall not be strangers to it, who shall sit on the throne of the Twelve Patriarchs to judge Israel; also, as may be collected out of the Gospels themselves, Moses and Elias shall sit with them in the kingdom of heaven, seeing that it was in their company that He appeared on the mount in His apparel of splendour. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 20:31
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, They bid them hold their peace, not from reverence for Christ, but because they were grieved to hear from the blind what they denied, namely, that the Lord was the Son of David. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas