Luke 20:46

Chapter 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.…

“And although here upon earth he be not honoured with the chief seat, he will sit down on the four-and-twenty thrones, judging the people, as John says in the Apocalypse.” — editor's note: πσωτοκαθεδρία, Mark xii. 39, Luke xx. 46.

Now nothing is more powerful than to argue from the Prophets. For this is even of more weight than miracles themselves. For when Christ worked miracles, He was often gainsayed. But when He cited the Prophets, men…

For as He was sending them to teach the world, He rightly warns them not to imitate the pride of the Pharisees. Beware of the Scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, that is, to go forth into public, dressed in…

The passions of the Scribes were the love of vainglory and the love of gain. That the disciples should avoid these hateful crimes, He gives them this warning, and adds, And love greetings in the markets.

Which is the way of those who court and hunt after a good reputation, or they do it for the sake of collecting money. It follows, And the chief seats in synagogues.

He does not forbid those to sit first in the synagogue, or at the feast, to whom this dignity belongs by right, but He tells them to beware of those who love this unduly; denouncing not the distinction, but the love…

Thrusting themselves also into the possessions of widows, they grind down their poverty, not content to eat as it may be afforded them, but greedily devouring; using prayer also to an evil end, they thus expose…

Because they not only do what is evil, but make a pretence of prayer, so making virtue an excuse for their sin. They also impoverish widows whom they were bound to pity, by their presence driving them to great expenses.

Or because they seek from men praise and money, they are punished with the greater damnation.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.13.

Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 20:45–47 (Catena Aurea).

Mark 12:38 and Luke 20:46 share the same wording (13 words).

Mark 12:39 and Luke 20:46 share the same wording (12 words).