Mateus 22
Hilary of Poitiers · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Mateus 22:2
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Rightly has the Father already made this wedding, because this eternal union and espousal of the new body is already perfect in Christ. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:3-4
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or; The servants who were first sent to call them that were bidden, are the Apostles; they who, being before bidden, are now invited to come in, are the people of Israel, who had before been bidden through the Law to the glories of eternity. To the Apostles therefore it belonged to remind those whom the Prophets had invited. Those sent with the second injunction are the Apostolic men their successors. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:4
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or otherwise; The oxen are the glorious army of Martyrs, offered, like choice victims, for the confession of God; the fatlings are spiritual men, as birds fed for flight upon heavenly food, that they may fill others with the abundance of the food they have eaten. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:5
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] For men are taken up with worldly ambition as with a farm; and many through covetousness are engrossed with trafficking. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:9
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] By the street also is to be understood the time of this world, and they are therefore bid to go to the crossings of the streets, because the past is remitted to all. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or; The wedding garment is the grace of the Holy Spirit, and the purity of that heavenly temper, which taken up on the confession of a good enquiry is to be preserved pure and unspotted for the company of the kingdom of heaven. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:14
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] For to invite all without exception is a courtesy of public benevolence; but out of the invited or called, the election will be of worth, by distinction of merit. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:21
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] For if there remain with us nothing that is Cæsar's, we shall not be bound by the condition of rendering to him the things that are his; but if we lean upon what is his, if we avail ourselves of the lawful protection of his power, we cannot complain of it as any wrong if we are required to render to Cæsar the things of Cæsar. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:21
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] It behoves us also to render unto God the things that are His, namely, body, soul, and will. For Cæsar's coin is in the gold, in which His image was pourtrayed, that is, God's coin, on which the Divine image is stamped; give therefore your money to Cæsar, but preserve a conscience void of offence for God. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:30
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The same cavil that the Sadducees here offer respecting marriage is renewed by many who ask in what form the female sex shall rise again. But what the authority of Scripture leads us to think concerning the Angels, so must we suppose that it will be with women in the resurrection of our species. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:30
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] It had been enough to have cut off this opinion of the Sadducees of sensual enjoyment, that where the function ceased, the empty pleasure of the body accompanying it ceased also; but He adds, But are as the Angels of God in heaven. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:32
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] It should be further considered, that this was said to Moses at a time when those holy Patriarchs had gone to their rest. They therefore of whom He was the God were in being; for they could have had nothing, if they had not been in being; for in the nature of things that, of which somewhat else is, must have itself a being; so they who have a God must themselves be alive, since God is eternal, and it is not possible that that which is dead should have that which is eternal. How then shall it be affirmed that those do not, and shall not hereafter, exist, of whom Eternity itself has said that He is? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 22:39-40
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or otherwise; That the second command is like the first signifies that the obligation and merit of both are alike; for no love of God without Christ, or of Christ without God, can profit to salvation. It follows, On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas