Lucas 19
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Lucas 19:13-24
What you have offered to God you shall receive back multiplied. Something like this, although put in another way, is related in the Gospels when in a parable someone received a pound that he might engage in business, and the master of the house demanded the money. If you have caused five to be multiplied to ten, then they are given to you. Hear what Scripture says, "Take his pound, and give it to him who has ten pounds."We therefore appear at least to engage in business for the Lord, but the profits of the business go to us. We appear to offer sacrifice to the Lord, but the things we offer are given back to us. God does not need anything, but he wants us to be rich. He desires our progress through each, individual thing. — HOMILY ON GENESIS 8
Lucas 19:13-24
Interest on the Word of God is having in life and deeds things that the Word of God has commanded. When you hear the Word, if you use it and act according to those words that you hear and live according to these words, then you are preparing interest for the Lord. Each of you can make ten talents from five. You will then hear from the Lord, "Well done, good and faithful servant, you shall have power over ten cities." Beware of this, fearing that any one of you may gather "in a napkin" or bury "in the earth" the money that has been received. You know well the nature of the outcome for this kind of man when the Lord comes. — HOMILY ON EXODUS 13.1
Lucas 19:29
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Bethany is interpreted, the house of obedience, but Bethphage the house of cheek bones, being a place belonging to the priests, for cheek bones in the sacrifices were the right of the priests, as it is commanded in the law. To that place then where obedience is, and where the priests have the possession, our Saviour sends His disciples to loose the ass's colt. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:29-30
Bethany is interpreted as "house of obedience", while Bethphage as "jaw bones", a place belonging to priests; for the jaw bones were given to the priests, as it is written in the law. Therefore, where there is obedience and a holy place, there the Lord sends the apostles to untie a "colt tied, on which no man ever sat". Instead of: No rational man ever sat on it, neither Moses' word nor Isaiah's nor any other prophet's. When Christ came, He told the disciples to go and loosen the colt. He told them: "If anyone asks you, why are you untying the colt, you will say that the Lord has need of it." Note, however, that Jesus said: "If anyone asks you," and did not name the Lord, but the Evangelist says that they said, "The Lords of it." Many were the lords of the donkey before being dominated by the Savior, but we know that once one becomes the Lord's, he cannot have many masters; for when a man serves evil, he is a slave of many passions. — HOMILY ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 37.1
Lucas 19:30
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (sup. Joan. tom. ii.) Now I think this place is not without reason said to be a small village. For as if it were a village without any further name, in comparison of the whole earth the whole heavenly country is despised. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:31
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] There were then many masters of this colt, before that the Saviour had need of him. But as soon as He began to be the master, there ceased to be any other. For no one can serve God and mammon. (Matt. 6:24.) When we are the servants of wickedness we are subject to many vices and passions, but the Lord has need of the colt, because He would have us loosed from the chain of our sins. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:35-36
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (in Luc. 37.) The disciples next place their garments upon the ass, and cause the Saviour to sit thereon, inasmuch as they take upon themselves the word of God, and make it to rest upon the souls of their hearers. They divest themselves of their garments, and strew them in the way, for the clothing of the Apostles is their good works. And truly does the ass loosened by the disciples and carrying Jesus, walk upon the garments of the Apostles, when it imitates their doctrine. Which of us is so blessed, that Jesus should rest upon him? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:37
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] As long as our Lord was in the mount His Apostles only were with Him, but when He began to be near the descent, then there came to Him a multitude of the people. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:40
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] When we also are silent, (that is, when the love of many waxeth cold,) the stones cry out, for God can from stones raise up children to Abraham. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:41
I seek, lest the Lord's weeping comes upon us too. For we are the Jerusalem that is wept over, the more discerning ones. If after the mysteries of truth are revealed to us and the word of salvation preached, we sin, we are wept over. No Gentile is wept over, but this kind of Jerusalem is wept over because her enemies surround her in sin, the opposing forces, and they will barricade her and hem her in and not leave one stone upon another in her; if after a long time of sobriety or practicing another virtue, one is conquered, his building is demolished. "For I will not remember," He says, "his former righteousness; in the sin which he sins, in it I will judge him." — HOMILY ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 38.1-2
Lucas 19:41
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] All the blessings which Jesus pronounced in His Gospel He confirms by His own example, as having declared, Blessed are the meek; He afterwards sanctions it by saying, Learn of me, for I am meek; and because He had said, Blessed are they that weep, He Himself also wept over the city. I do not deny then that the former Jerusalem was destroyed because of the wickedness of its inhabitants, but I ask whether the weeping might not perhaps concern this your spiritual Jerusalem. For if a man has sinned after receiving the mysteries of truth, he will be wept over. Moreover, no Gentile is wept over, but he only who was of Jerusalem, and has ceased to be. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:43-44
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But our Jerusalem is also wept over, because after sin enemies surround it, (that is, wicked spirits,) and cast a trench round it to besiege it, and leave not a stone behind; especially when a man after long continency, after years of chastity, is overcome, and enticed by the blandishments of the flesh, has lost his fortitude and his modesty, and has committed fornication, they will not leave on him one stone upon another, according to Ezekiel, His former righteousness I will not remember. (Ezek 18:24.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 19:45
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] If any then sells, let him be cast out, and especially if he sells doves. For of those things which have been revealed and committed to me by the Holy Spirit, I either sell for money to the people, or do not teach without hire, what else do I but sell a dove, that is, the Holy Spirit? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas