Mateus 25
Hilary of Poitiers · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Mateus 25:1
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Then, because all this discourse is concerning the great day of the Lord, concerning which He had been speaking before. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:1
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, The bridegroom and the bride represent our Lord God in the body, for the flesh is the bride of the spirit. The lamps are the light of bright souls which shine forth in the sacrament of baptismb. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:1
The whole story is about the great day of the Lord, when those things concealed from the human mind will be revealed through our understanding of divine judgment. Then the faith true to the Lord's coming will win the just reward for unwavering hope. For in the five wise and five foolish virgins, a complete separation between the faithful and unfaithful is established. Similarly, Moses had received the Ten Commandments written on two tablets. For it was necessary that all these things be written on each. The double column represented, under a single testament, the division between the good and the bad, between the designation of right and left. — Commentary on Matthew 27.3
Mateus 25:2
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, The five wise and five foolish are an absolute distinction between believers and unbelievers. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:2
: The wise virgins are those who, embracing the time available to them, were prepared at the first onset of the coming of the Lord. But the foolish were those who were lax and unmindful. They troubled themselves only over present matters and, forgetting what God said, did not direct their efforts toward hope for resurrection.
Mateus 25:3-4
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The oil is the fruit of good works, the vessels are the human bodies in whose inward parts the treasure of a good conscience is to be laid up. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:5
The delay of the bridegroom is the time for repentance. The sleep of those waiting is the peaceful rest of believers. The delay has given time for repentance. The cry comes at midnight, when no one yet knows what is happening. The sound of the trumpet of God heralds his coming, rousing all to go out and meet the bridegroom. The taking up of the lamps is the return of souls into their bodies. And the light shining from them is the consciousness of good work, which is contained in our bodies, which are like flasks. — Commentary on Matthew 27.4
Mateus 25:5
The bridegroom and bride represent our Lord, God in the flesh. For as the spirit is wedded to the flesh, so the flesh is wedded to the spirit. When the trumpet finally summons us and the bridegroom is at hand, all this will be revealed. Indeed, the two aspects are the corruptible body and the incorruptible soul. — Commentary on Matthew 27.4
Mateus 25:6
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] At the trumpet signal they go forth to meet the bridegroom alone, for then shall the two be one, that is, the flesh and God, when the lowliness of the flesh shall be transformed into spiritual glory. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:7
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, the trimming their lamps is the return of their souls into their bodies, and their light is the consciousness of good works that shines forth, which is contained in the vessels of the body. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:9
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] They that sell are the poor, who, needing the alms of the faithful, made them that recompense which they desire, selling in return for the relief afforded to their wants, a consciousness of good works. This is the abundant fuel of an undying light which may be bought and stored up for the fruits of mercy. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:10
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The marriage is the putting on of immortality, and the joining together corruption and incorruption in a new union... — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:10-11
Because the foolish were not able to go out and meet the bridegroom, since their lamps had gone out, they asked the wise to share their oil. They replied that they could not give them oil for there would perhaps not be enough. They told them to go to the dealers and buy for themselves. These foolish were not part of the group entering the wedding feast but late and unworthy of entering. They had lost their opportunity. — Commentary on Matthew 27.5
Mateus 25:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Yet though the season of repentance is now past, the foolish virgins come and beg that entrance may be granted to them. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:18-19
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, This servant who has received one talent and hid it in the earth is the people that continue in the Law, who through jealousy of the salvation of the Gentiles hide the talent they have received in the earth. For to hide a talent in the earth is to hide the glory of the new preaching through offence at the Passion of His Body. His coming to reckon with them is the assize of the day of judgment. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:20
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, That servant who received five talents is the people of believers under the Law, who beginning with that, doubled their merit by the right obedience of an evangelic faith. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:22
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, the servant to whom two talents were committed is the people of the Gentiles justified by the faith and confession of the Son and of the Father, confessing our Lord Jesus Christ, to be both God and Man, both Spirit and Flesh. These are the two talents committed to this servant. But as the Jewish people doubled by its belief in the Gospel every Sacrament which it had learned in the Law, (i. e. its five talents,) so this people by its use of its two talents merited understanding and working. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:24-25
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or, By this servant is understood the Jewish people which continues in the Law, and says I was afraid of thee, as through fear of the old commandments abstaining from the exercise of evangelical liberty; and it says, Lo, there is that is thine, as though it had continued in those things which the Lord commanded, when yet it knew that the fruits of righteousness should be reaped there, where the Law had not been sown, and that there should be gathered from among the Gentiles some who were not scattered of the seed of Abraham. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 25:29
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And on those who have the privilege of the Gospels, the honour of the Law is also conferred, but from him who has not the faith of Christ is taken away even that honour which seemed to be his through the Law. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas