Luke 14:20 (WEB)
“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’
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Augustine of Hippo
“But that is really a different passage, as the order itself sufficiently indicates, although there is some similarity between the two.” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 16–24.
Read the whole comment“A third said, I have married a wife, have me excused; I cannot come.”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 18–20.
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Tertullian
““I have bought a field—and I have bought some oxen—and I have married a wife.”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 18–20.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
Our Lord had just before taught us to prepare our feasts for those who cannot repay, seeing that we shall have our reward at the resurrection of the just. Some one then, supposing the resurrection of the just to be…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
That man was carnal, and a careless hearer of the things which Christ delivered, for he thought the reward of the saints was to be bodily.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Or because he sighed for something afar off, and that bread which he desired lay before him. For who is that Bread of the kingdom of God but He who says, I am the living bread which came down from heaven? (John…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
But because some receive this bread by faith merely, as if by smelling, but its sweetness they loathe to really touch with their mouths, our Lord by the following parable condemns the dulness of those men to be…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
This man represents God the Father just as images are formed to give the resemblance of power. For as often as God wishes to declare His avenging power, He is called by the names of bear, leopard, lion, and others of…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Or he made a great supper, as having prepared for us the full enjoyment of eternal sweetness. He bade many, but few came, because sometimes they who themselves are subject to him by faith, by their lives oppose his…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
That servant who was sent is Christ Himself, who being by nature God and the true Son of God, emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant. But He was sent at supper time. For not in the beginning did the…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Or else, the Man is the Mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus; He sent that they who were bidden might come, i. e. those who were called by the prophets whom He had sent; who in the former times invited to the…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
By this servant then who is sent by the master of the family to bid to supper, the order of preachers is signified. But it is often the case that a powerful person has a despised servant, and when his Lord orders any…
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Now there were three excuses, of which it is added, The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it. The bought piece of ground denotes government. Therefore pride is the…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Or by the piece of ground is meant worldly substance. Therefore he goes out to see it who thinks only of outward things for the sake of his living.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Thus it is that the worn out soldier is appointed to serve degraded offices, as he who intent upon things below buys for himself earthly possessions, can not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Our Lord says, Sell all…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
The five yoke of oxen are taken to be the five senses of the flesh; in the eyes sight, in the ears hearing, in the nostrils smelling, in the mouth taste, in all the members touch. But the yoke is more easily apparent…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
By the bodily senses also because they cannot comprehend things within, but take cognizance only of what is without, curiosity is rightly represented, which while it seeks to shake off a life which is strange to it,…
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That is, the delight of the flesh which hinders many, I wish it were outward and not inward. For he who said, I have married a wife, taking pleasure in the delights of the flesh, excuses himself from the supper; let…
Read the whole comment - Basil the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
But he says, I cannot come, because that the human mind when it is degenerating to worldly pleasures, is feeble in attending to the things of God.
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
But although marriage is good, and appointed by Divine Providence for the propagation of children, some seek therein not fruitfulness of offspring, but the lust of pleasure. And so by means of a righteous thing may…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Or marriage is not blamed; but purity is held up to greater honour, since the unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit, but she that is married careth for the things…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Now John when he said, all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, (1 John 2:16.) began from the point where the Gospel ended. The lust of the flesh, I have…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
But whom can we suppose these to be who refused to come for the reason just mentioned, but the rulers of the Jews, whom throughout the sacred history we find to have been often reproved for these things?
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
Or else, they who have bought a piece of ground and reject or refuse the supper, are they who have taken other doctrines of divinity, but have despised the word which they possessed. But he who has bought five yoke…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Or let us suppose that three classes of men are excluded from partaking of that supper, Gentiles, Jews, Heretics. The Jews by their fleshly service impose upon themselves the yoke of the law, for the five yoke are…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Not for the sake of knowing inferior beings does God require messengers, as though He gained aught from them, for He knows all things stedfastly and unchangeably. But he has messengers for oursakes and their own,…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
But with the rulers of the Jews who refused their call, as they themselves confessed, Have any of the rulers believed on him? (John 7:48.) the Master of the household was wroth, as with them that deserved His…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Thus it was that the master of the house is said to have been enraged with the chiefs of the Jews, and in their stead were called men taken from out of the Jewish multitude, and of weak and impotent minds. For at…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
He invites the poor, the weak, and the blind, to shew that weakness of body shuts out no one from the kingdom of heaven, and that he is guilty of fewer sins who lacks the incitement to sin; or that the infirmities of…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Or, He sends to the highways and about the hedges, because they are fit for the kingdom of God, who, not absorbed in the desire for present goods, are hastening on to the future, set in a certain fixed path of good…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
The Gentiles came from the streets and lanes, the heretics come from the hedges. For they who make a hedge seek for a division; let them be drawn away from the hedges, plucked asunder from the thorns. But they are…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
They then who, broken down by the calamities of this world, return to the love of God, are compelled to enter. But very terrible is the sentence which comes next. For I say unto you, That none of those men which were…
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 14:15–24 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 14:15–24 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 14:15–24 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Luke 14:15–24 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 14:15–24 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 14:15–24 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 14:15–24 (3) (Catena Aurea).