Luke 20:18 (WEB)
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”
Catechism · 1
“If the Law and the Jerusalem Temple could be occasions of opposition to Jesus by Israel's religious authorities, his role in the redemption of sins, the divine work par excellence, was the true stumbling-block for them.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 2:34; 20:17-18; Ps 118:22.
Fathers and councils · 43
Augustine of Hippo
“For so was it said of the stone, “Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 18.
Read the whole comment“For thus it was foretold by the prophet: “Whoever shall stumble upon that stone shall be bruised, and upon whomsoever it shall have come, it shall grind him to powder.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 18; Isa. xxviii. 16.
Read the whole comment“The stone is before thy feet, lying, so to speak, mean and humble: therefore by scorning thou dost stumble, by stumbling thou fallest, by falling thou art wounded.…“But on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 18.
Read the whole comment“…regarding the baptism of John, and after the reply which He returned to them in these words: “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”” — editor's note: Mark xii. 1–11; Luke xx. 9–18.
Read the whole commentChapter LXXVI.—Of the Harmony in Respect of the Order of Narration Subsisting Between Matthew and the Other Two Evangelists in the Accounts Given of the Occasion on Which He Foretold the Destruction of the Temple.…
Read the whole comment“Yea such a stone, “that whosoever shall stumble against it shall be shaken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22; Luke xx. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“Because then it had not yet increased, they stumbled at Him as at a stone: and that happened in them which is written, “Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever that stone shall fall, it will grind them to powder.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 18.
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John Chrysostom
“The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner; and every one that falleth upon it shall be broken.”” — editor's note: Luke xx. 17, 18.
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Tertullian
“In chap. xx. he omitted ten verses, from the end of ver. 8 to the end of ver. 18.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
The rulers of the Jewish people being now assembled together in the temple, Christ put forth a parable, foretelling by a figure the things they were about to do to Him, and the rejection that was in store for them.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Matthew has omitted for brevity’s sake what Luke has not, namely, that the parable was spoken not to the rulers only who asked concerning His authority, but also to the people.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Now many derive different meanings from the name vineyard, but Esaias clearly relates the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth to be the house of Israel. (Isa. 5.) This vineyard who else but God planted?
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
The man then who plants the vineyard is the same who, according to another parable, hired labourers into his vineyard.
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
But the parable which Esaias gives denounces the vineyard, whereas our Saviour’s parable is not directed against the vineyard, but the cultivators of it; of whom it is added, And he let it out to husbandmen, that is,…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Or each one of the people is the vineyard, each likewise is the husbandman, for every one of us takes care of himself. Having committed then the vineyard to the husbandmen, he went away, that is, he left them to the…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Not that our Lord journeys from place to place, seeing that He is ever present in every place, but that He is more present to those who love Him, while He removes Himself from those who regard Him not. But He was…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Or God took Himself away from the vineyard for the course of many years, for since the time that He was seen to descend in the likeness of fire upon Mount Sinai, He no longer vouchsafed to them His visible presence;…
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He says of the fruit of the vineyard, because not the whole fruit, but part only, He wished to receive. For what does God gain from us, but His own knowledge, which is also our profit.
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But it is rightly written fruit, not increase. For there was no increase in this vineyard. The first servant sent was Moses, who for forty years sought of the husbandmen the fruit of the law which he had given, but…
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And it came to pass that He ordained many others, whom the Jews sent back to him disgraced and empty, for they could reap nothing from them; as it follows, And again he sent another servant.
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
By the other servant is meant David, who was sent after the commandment of the law, that he by the music of his psalmody might stir up the husbandmen to the exercise of good works. But they on the contrary declared,…
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After the prophets then had suffered all these things, the Son is delegated; for it follows, Then said the Lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? That the Lord of the vineyard speaks doubtingly, arises not from…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord of the vineyard also ponders what He should do, not that He is in need of ministers, but that having thoroughly tried every device of human aid, yet His people being in no wise healed, He may add something…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Now He said this, not as ignorant that they would treat Him worse than they did the prophets, but because the Son ought to be reverenced by them. But if they should still be rebellious and slay Him, this would crown…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
When then the only-begotten Son was sent to them, the unbelieving Jews, wishing to be rid of the Heir, put Him to death by crucifying Him, and rejected Him by denying Him. Christ is the Heir and the Testator…
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But our Lord most clearly proves that the Jewish rulers crucified the Son of God not from ignorance but for envy. For they knew it was He to whom it was said, I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. (Ps.…
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Since we have already assumed the people, not Jerusalem, to be the vineyard, it may perhaps be more properly said that the people indeed slew Him without the vineyard; that is, our Lord suffered without the hands of…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
Or was He cast out of the vineyard and slain, because He was first driven out of the hearts of the unbelievers, and then fastened to the cross?
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
Now it was not accidentally but part of the purpose of the divine dispensation that Christ came after the prophets. For God does not pursue all things at once, but accommodates Himself to mankind through His great…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
He rightly puts a question to them, that they may condemn themselves by their own words, as it follows, What then will the Lord of the vineyard do to them?
Read the whole comment - Basil the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
And this happens as it were to men who are condemned, having nothing to answer to the plain evidence of justice. But it is the property of Divine mercy not to inflict punishment in secret, but to foretell it with…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
He says, the Lord of the vineyard will come, because in the Son is present also the Father’s majesty; or because in the last times He will be more graciously present by His Spirit in the hearts of men.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
The Jewish rulers were shut out then, because they resisted their Lord’s will, and made the vineyard barren which was entrusted to them. But the cultivation of the vineyard was given to the Priests of the New…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Now Matthew seems to relate the parable differently; that when our Saviour asked indeed, What will he do then to the husbandmen? the Jews answered, he will miserably destroy them. But there is no difference between…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Or else, in the multitude of which we are speaking there were those who craftily asked our Lord by what authority He acted; there were those also who not craftily, but faithfully, cried aloud, Blessed is he who…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
As if He said, How shall the prophecy be fulfilled, except that Christ, being rejected and slain by you, is to be preached to the Gentiles, who will believe on Him, that as the corner stone He may thus from both…
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
Christ is called a stone on account of His earthly body, cut out without hands, (Dan. 2:34.) as in the vision of Daniel, because of His birth of the Virgin. But the stone is neither of silver nor gold, because He is…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
For the rulers of the people rejected Him, when they said, This man is not of God. (John 9:16.) But He was so useful and so precious, that He was placed as the head stone of the corner.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
But holy Scripture compares to a corner the meeting together of the two nations, the Jew and the Gentile, into one faith. (1 Pet. 2:7. Eph. 2:20.) For the Saviour has compacted both peoples into one new man,…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
He mentions two condemnations or destructions of them, one indeed of their souls, which they suffered being offended in Christ. And He touches this when He says, Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be shaken…
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Or else, He who is a sinner, yet believes on Christ, falls indeed upon the stone and is shaken, for he is preserved by penitence unto salvation. But upon whomsoever it shall fall, that is, upon whom the stone itself…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
The vineyard is also our type. For the husbandman is the Almighty Father, the vine is Christ, but we are the branches. (John 15:5.) Rightly are the people of Christ called a vine, either because it carries on its…
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Or understanding it morally; to every one of the faithful is let out a vineyard to cultivate, in that the mystery of baptism is entrusted to him to work out. One servant is sent, a second and a third, when the Law,…
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 20:9–18 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 20:9–18 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §587.
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 20:9–18 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §587.