Luke 11:49 (WEB)
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
Catechism · 1
“This zeal, were it not to lapse into "hypocritical" casuistry,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 15:31; Lk 11:39-54.
Fathers and councils · 33
Augustine of Hippo
Chapter LXII.—Of the Harmony Subsisting Between Matthew and Mark in the Accounts Which They Offer of the Time When He Was Asked Whether It Was Lawful to Put Away One’s Wife, and Especially in Regard to the Specific…
Read the whole comment“Wherefore, although Matthew records these things in a manner which, while it is true indeed that the house of that Pharisee is not mentioned by name, yet does…” — editor's note: Luke xi. 40–52.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And the Wisdom of God said: “I will send prophets and apostles.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xi. 49.
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Tertullian
“He forbids cursing again, and cursing much more of course; and yet he heaps his woe upon the Pharisees and doctors of the law.” — editor's note: Luke vi. 28, also xi. 37–52.
Read the whole comment“He rejected verses 49, 50, 51, because the passage related to the prophets.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
A reproof which exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud man. When therefore our Saviour was blaming the Pharisees for transgressing from the right path, the body of Lawyers were struck with consternation.…
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In what a grievous state is that conscience, which hearing the word of God thinks it a reproach against itself, and in the account of the punishment of the wicked perceives its own condemnation.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Now the Lawyers were different from the Pharisees. For the Pharisees being separated from the rest had the appearance of a religious sect; but those skilled in the Law were the Scribes and Doctors who solved legal…
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But Christ brings a severe charge against the Lawyers, and subdues their foolish pride, as it follows, And he said, Woe unto you also, ye Lawyers, for ye lade men, &c. He brings forward an obvious example for their…
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As often also as the teacher does what he teaches, he lightens the load, offering himself for an example. But when he does none of the things which he teaches others, the loads appear heavy to those who learn his…
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Now they are rightly told that they would not touch the burdens of the Law even with one of their fingers, that is, they fulfil not in the slightest point that law which they pretend to keep and transmit to the…
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
So also are there now many severe judges of sinners, yet weak combatants; burdensome imposers of laws, yet weak bearers of burdens; who wish neither to approach nor to touch strictness of life, though they sternly…
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Having then condemned the burdensome dealing of the Lawyer, He brings a general charge against all the chief men of the Jews, saying, Woe to you who build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
This is a good answer to the foolish superstition of the Jews, who in building the tombs of the prophets condemned the deeds of their fathers, but by rivalling their fathers’ wickedness, throw back the sentence upon…
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They pretended indeed, in order to win the favour of the multitude, that they were shocked at the unbelief of their fathers, since by splendidly honouring the memories of the prophets who were slain by them they…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
The wisdom of God is Christ. The words indeed in Matthew are, Behold I send unto you prophets and wise men.
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But if the same Wisdom of God sent prophets and Apostles, let heretics cease to assign to Christ a beginning from the Virgin; let them no longer declare one God of the Law and Prophets, another of the New Testament.…
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Now if they kill, the death of the slain will cry out the louder against them; if they pursue, they send forth memorials of their iniquity, for flight makes the pursuit of the sufferers to redound to the great…
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It is asked, How comes it that the blood of all the prophets and just men is required of the single generation of the Jews; whereas many of the saints, both before the Incarnation and after, have been slain by other…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Although then He says pointedly of this generation, He expresses not merely those who were then standing by Him and listening, but every manslayer. For like is attributed to like.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
But if He means that the Jews are about to suffer worse things, this will not be undeserved, for they have dared to do worse than all. And they have been corrected by none of their past calamities, but when they saw…
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But our Lord shews that the Jews have inherited the malice of Cain, since he adds, From the blood of Abel, to the blood of Zacharias, &c. Abel, inasmuch as he was slain by Cain; but Zacharias, whom they slew between…
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Why He begins from the blood of Abel, who was the first martyr, we need not wonder; but why, to the blood of Zacharias, is a question, since many were slain after him even up to our Lord’s birth, and soon after His…
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
But some say that Zacharias, the father of John, by the spirit of prophecy forecasting the mystery of the immaculate virginity of the mother of God, in no wise separated her from the part of the temple set apart for…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
But others give another reason for the destruction of Zacharias. For at the murder of the children the blessed John was to be slain with the rest of the same age, but Elisabeth, snatching up her son from the midst of…
Read the whole comment - Basil the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
This word woe, which is uttered with pain intolerable, is suited to those who were shortly after to be cast out into grievous punishment.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Now we say, the law itself is the key of knowledge. For it was both a shadow and a figure of the righteousness of Christ, therefore it became the Lawyers, as instructors of the Law of Moses and the words of the…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But the key of knowledge is also the humility of Christ, which they would neither themselves understand, nor let be understood by others.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Those also are even now condemned under the name of Jews, and made subject to future punishment, who, while usurping to themselves the teaching of divine knowledge, both hinder others, and do not themselves…
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Now all these things Matthew records to have been said after our Lord had come into Jerusalem. But Luke relates them here, when our Lord was yet on His journey to Jerusalem. From which they appear to me to be similar…
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But how true were the charges of unbelief, hypocrisy, and impiety, brought against the Pharisees and Lawyers they themselves testify, striving not to repent, but to entrap the Teacher of truth; for it follows, And as…
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Now this urging is taken to mean pressing upon Him, or threatening Him, or waxing furious against Him. But they began to interrupt His words in many ways, as it follows, And to force him to speak of many things.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
For when several are questioning a man on different subjects, since he can not reply to all at once, foolish people think he is doubting. This also was part of their wicked design against Him; but they sought also in…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 11:45–54 (5) (Catena Aurea).