Luke 20:43 (WEB)
until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’
Fathers and councils · 12
Augustine of Hippo
“…same order once more as the others, narrating just as these, do this question which the Lord put to the Jews concerning Christ, as to how He was David’s son.” — editor's note: Luke xx. 41–44.
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.…
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Tertullian
“If, however, the Scribes thought Christ was David’s Son, whereas (David) himself calls Him Lord, what relation has this to Christ?” — editor's note: Luke xx. 41–44.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Although our Lord was shortly about to enter on His Passion, He proclaims His own Godhead, and that too neither incautiously nor boastfully, but with modesty. For He puts a question to them, and having thrown them…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
They are not blamed here because they acknowledge Him to be David’s Son, for the blind man for so doing was thought worthy to be healed. (Luke 18:42.) And the children saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, (Matt.…
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By the sitting we must not conceive a posture of the human limbs, as if the Father sat on the left and the Son on: the right, but the right hand itself we must interpret to be the power which that Man received who…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Or, that He sits on the Father’s right hand proves His heavenly glory. For whose throne is equal, their Majesty is equal. But sitting when it is said of God signifies a universal kingdom and power. Therefore He…
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He manifests then that He is not opposed to the Father, but agrees with Him, since the Father resists the Son’s enemies, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
We must believe then that Christ is both God and man, and that His enemies are made subject to Him by the Father, not through the weakness of His power, but through the unity of their nature, since in the one the…
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Therefore He asks the question, and having excited their doubts, leaves them to deduce the consequence; as it follows, David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
David in truth was both the Father and the servant of Christ, the former indeed according to the flesh, the latter in the Spirit.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
We then likewise in answer to the new Pharisees, who neither confess the Son of the holy Virgin to be the true Son of God, nor to be God, but divide one son into two, put the like objections: How then is the Son of…
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Cross-references · 15
Parallel passages
Luke 20:43 and Hebrews 1:13 share the same wording (10 words).
Mark 12:36 and Luke 20:43 share the same wording (10 words).
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Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 20:41–44 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 20:41–44 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.75.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 20:41–44 (Catena Aurea).
