Lucas 20
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 20:13
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Now it was not accidentally but part of the purpose of the divine dispensation that Christ came after the prophets. For God does not pursue all things at once, but accommodates Himself to mankind through His great mercy; for if they despised His Son coming after His servants, much less would they have heard Him before. For they who listened not to the inferior commands, how would they have heard the greater? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 20:37
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (de Anna, Serm. 4.) As the saints claim as their own the common Lord of the world, not as derogating from His dominion, but testifying their affection after the manner of lovers, who do not brook to love with many, but desire to express a certain peculiar and especial attachment; so likewise does God call Himself especially the God of these, not thereby narrowing but enlarging His dominion; for it is not so much the multitude of His subjects that manifests His power, as the virtue of His servants. Therefore He does not so delight in the name of the God of heaven and earth, as in that of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now among men servants are thus denominated by their masters; for we say, 'The steward of such a man,' but on the contrary God is called the God of Abraham. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 20:44
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] David in truth was both the Father and the servant of Christ, the former indeed according to the flesh, the latter in the Spirit. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 20:45
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Hom. 19. in Joann.) Now nothing is more powerful than to argue from the Prophets. For this is even of more weight than miracles themselves. For when Christ worked miracles, He was often gainsayed. But when He cited the Prophets, men were at once silent, because they had nothing to say. But when they were silent, He warns against them; as it is said, Then in the audience of all the people he said to his disciples. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 20:47
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Thrusting themselves also into the possessions of widows, they grind down their poverty, not content to eat as it may be afforded them, but greedily devouring; using prayer also to an evil end, they thus expose themselves to a heavier condemnation; as it follows, These shall receive the greater damnation. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas