Lucas 9
Titus of Bostra · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 9:33
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) Peter also was ignorant what he said, seeing that it was not proper to make three tabernacles for the three. For the servants are not received with their Lord, the creature is not placed beside the Creator. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:38-39
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) It seems indeed to me that this was a wise man. For he said not to the Saviour, "Do this or that," but, Look on my son, for this suffices for His salvation; as the prophet said, Look on me, and have mercy on me; and he says, on my son, to show that his was a reasonable forwardness in crying out aloud among the multitude. He adds, for he is mine only child. As if to say, There is none other I can expect to be the consolation of my old age. He next enters into the sufferings, that he may move his Hearer to compassion, saying, And, lo, the spirit taketh him. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:40-41
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He then seems to accuse the disciples, but his answer is rather a justification of his casting aside his fear, saying, And I besought thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not. As if he said, Think not that I have come lightly unto Thee. Marvellous is Thy greatness! I did not intrude upon Thy presence at once, but went first to Thy disciples. Because they failed to work the cure, I am now compelled to approach Thee. Our Lord therefore does not blame him, but the faithless generation; for it follows, And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:42
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] He might indeed have healed him by His simple command, but He makes his sufferings public, bringing the weak in faith to the sight of things present. Then the devil, when he perceived our Lord, rends and dashes the child clown; as it follows, And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him; that so first the sufferings should be made manifest, then the remedy be applied. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:43
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] While all thus were wondering at the miracles, He foretels His passion. For miracles do not save, but the cross conveys the benefit. Hence he adds, For the Son of man shall he delivered into the hands of men. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:51
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Because it was necessary that the true Lamb should there be offered, where the typical lamb was sacrificed; but it is said, he stedfastly set his face, that is, He went not here and there traversing the villages and towns, but kept on His way straight towards Jerusalem. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:54
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] They thought it much juster that the Samaritans should perish for not admitting our Lord, than the fifty soldiers who tried to thrust down Elijah. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas