Luke 13:11 (WEB)
Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way straighten herself up.
Fathers and councils · 20
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.54Book VIII
“And when Jesus beheld her, and perceived from what cause she was bowed together, he said, “Ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”” — editor's note: Luke xiii. 11, 16.
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Jerome
“She whom Satan had bound for eighteen years came to the Saviour; and being cured by Him was made straight so that she could once more look up towards heaven.” — editor's note: Luke xiii. 11–13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But intercession was made for it, that it might be let alone that year, that year, that if it bore fruit, well; if otherwise, it should be cut down.” — editor's note: Luke xiii. 6–17
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Yesterday you were a Canaanite soul bent together by sin; today you have been made straight by the Word.” — editor's note: Luke xiii. 11, which S. Gregory has apparently mixed with a recollection of Matt. xv. 21.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
He soon explained that He had been speaking of the synagogue, shewing, that He truly came to it, who preached in it, as it is said, And he was teaching in one of the synagogues.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
He teaches indeed not separately, but in the synagogues; calmly, neither wavering in any thing, nor determining aught against the law of Moses; on the Sabbath also, because the Jews were then engaged in the hearing…
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Now that the Incarnation of the Word was manifested to destroy corruption and death, and the hatred of the devil against us, is plain from the actual events; for it follows, And behold there was a woman which had a…
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Because the head of the brutes is bent down towards the ground and looks upon the earth, but the head of man was made erect towards the heaven, his eyes tending upward. For it becomes us to seek what is above, and…
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But our Lord, to shew that His coming into this world was to be the loosing of human infirmities, healed this woman. Hence it follows, And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art…
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Lastly, God rested from the works of the world not from holy works, for His working is constant and everlasting; as the Son says, My Father worketh until now, and I work; (John 5:17.) that after the likeness of God…
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The hypocrite is one who on the stage assumes a different character from his own. So also in this life some men carry one thing in their heart, and shew another on the surface to the world.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
Well then does he call the ruler of the synagogue a hypocrite, for he had the appearance of an observer of the law, but in his heart was a crafty and envious man. For it troubles him not that the Sabbath is broken,…
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Now the ruler of the synagogue is convicted a hypocrite, in that he leads his cattle to watering on the Sabbath-day, but this woman, not more by birth than by faith the daughter of Abraham, he thought unworthy to be…
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Mystically the unfruitful fig tree signifies the woman that was bowed down. For human nature of its own will rushes into sin, and as it would not bring forth the fruit of obedience, has lost the state of uprightness.…
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Or the fig tree represents the synagogue; afterwards in the infirm woman there follows as it were a figure of the Church, which having fulfilled the measure of the law and the resurrection, and now raised up on high…
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Or else; man was made on the sixth day, and on the same sixth day were all the works of the Lord finished, but the number six multiplied three times makes eighteen. Because then man who was made on the sixth day was…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
That which the three years signified in the tree, the eighteen did in the woman, for three times six is eighteen. But she was crooked and could not look up, for in vain she heard the words, lift up your hearts.
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For every sinner who thinketh earthly things, not seeking those that are in heaven, is unable to look up. For while pursuing his baser desires, he declines from the uprightness of his state; or his heart is bent…
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Now this miracle is a sign of the coming sabbath, when every one who has fulfilled the law and grace, shall by the mercy of God put off the toils of this weak body. But why did He not mention any more animals, save…
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But the daughter of Abraham is every faithful soul, or the Church gathered out of both nations into the unity of the faith. There is the same mystery then in the ox or ass being loosed and led to water, as in the…
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 13:10–17 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.4.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.4.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.4.