Lucas 10
Maximus the Confessor
Lucas 10:9
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Cap. Theol. 191.) Which it is said is come nigh, not to show the shortness of time, for the kingdom of God cometh not with observation, but to mark the disposition of men towards the kingdom of God, which is indeed potentially in all believers, but actually in those who reject the life of the body, and choose only the spiritual life; who are able to say, Now I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. (Gal. 2:20.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 10:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Cap. Theol. 191.) Which it is said is come nigh, not to show the shortness of time, for the kingdom of God cometh not with observation, but to mark the disposition of men towards the kingdom of God, which is indeed potentially in all believers, but actually in those who reject the life of the body, and choose only the spiritual life; who are able to say, Now I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. (Gal. 2:20.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 10:27
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] To this end then the law commanded a threefold love to God, that it might pluck us away from the threefold fashion of the world, as touching possessions, glory, and pleasure, wherein also Christ was tempted. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas