Luke 24:25 (WEB)
He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Catechism · 5
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“It is on this harmony of the two Testaments that the Paschal catechesis of the Lord is built,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. DV 14-16; Lk 24:13-49.
Sacred Scripture
“Different as the books which compose it may be, Scripture is a unity by reason of the unity of God's plan, of which Christ Jesus is the center and heart, open since his Passover.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:25-27, 44-46
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
“It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:13-35.
“Walking with them he explained the Scriptures to them; sitting with them at table "he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them."” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:13-35.
Jesus Died Crucified
“After his Resurrection he gave this interpretation of the Scriptures to the disciples at Emmaus, and then to the apostles.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:25-27, 44-45.
Fathers and councils · 28
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 25.
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Augustine of Hippo
“O ye sons of men, how long so slow of heart?” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 25.
Read the whole comment“Even as ye have just heard concerning the two disciples whom He met with in the way, how “their eyes were holden that they should not know Him:” and He found them despairing of the redemption that was in Christ, and deeming that now He had suffered and was dead as a man, not accounting that as Son of…” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 13–28.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Luke 24:25.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Because the above-mentioned disciples were troubled with too much doubt, the Lord reproves them, saying, O fools, (for they almost used the same words as those who stood by the cross, He saved others, himself he…
Read the whole comment - Isidore of SevilleCatena Aurea on Luke
But although it behoved Christ to suffer, yet they who crucified Him are guilty of inflicting the punishment. For they were not concerned to accomplish what God purposed. Therefore their execution of it was impious,…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
And therefore our Lord goes on to shew that all these things did not happen in a common way, but from the predestined purpose of God. Hence it follows, And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, he expounded to…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
But if Moses and the Prophets spoke of Christ, and prophesied that through His Passion He would enter into glory, how does that man boast that he is a Christian, who neither searches how these Scriptures relate to…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
But since the Evangelist said before, Their eyes were holden that they should not know him, until the words of the Lord should move their minds to faith, He fitly affords in addition to their hearing a favourable…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Now this relates not to falsehood. For not every thing we feign is a falsehood, but only when we feign that which means nothing. But when our feigning has reference to a certain meaning it is not a falsehood, but a…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Because then He was still a stranger to faith in their hearts, He feigned as if he would go further. By the word “fingere” we mean to put together or form, and hence formers or preparers of mud we call “figuli.” He…
Read the whole comment - Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Luke
They not only compel Him by their actions, but induce Him by their words; for it follows, saying, Abide with us, for it is towards evening, and the day is far gone, (that is, towards its close.)
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Now behold Christ since He is received through His members, so He seeks His receivers through Himself; for it follows, And he went in with them. They lay out a table, they bring food. And God whom they had not known…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
This was said not of their bodily eyes, but of their mental sight.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
For they walked not with their eyes shut, but there was something within them which did not permit them to know that which they saw, which a mist, darkness, or some kind of moisture, frequently occasions. Not that…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
But He also implies another thing, that the eyes of those who receive the sacred bread are opened that they should know Christ. For the Lord’s flesh has in it a great and ineffable power.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Or because the Lord feigned as if He would go farther, when He was accompanying the disciples, expounding to them the sacred Scriptures, who knew not whether it was He, what does He mean to imply but that through the…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Whoever then wishes to understand what he has heard, let him hasten to fulfil in work what he can now understand. Behold the Lord was not known when He was speaking, and He vouchsafed to be known when He is eating.…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
For He had not such a body as that He was able to abide longer with them, that thereby likewise He might increase their affections. And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn, within us while he talked…
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
By which is implied, that the words uttered by the Saviour inflamed the hearts of the hearers to the love of God.
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
By the word which is heard the spirit is kindled, the chill of dulness departs, the mind becomes awakened with heavenly desire. It rejoices to hear heavenly precepts, and every command in which it is instructed, is…
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Their hearts then were turned either by the fire of our Lord’s words, to which they listened as the truth, or because as He expounded the Scriptures, their hearts wore greatly struck within them, that He who was…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
It had been already reported that Jesus had risen by the women, and by Simon Peter, to whom He had appeared. For these two disciples found them talking of these things when they came to Jerusalem; as it follows, And…
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
It seems that our Lord appeared to Peter first of all those whom the four Evangelists and the Apostle mention.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
For He did not shew Himself to all at the same time, in order that He might sow the seeds of faith. For he who had first seen and was sure, told it to the rest. Afterwards the word going forth prepared the mind of…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But with respect to what Mark says, that they told the rest, and they did not believe them, whereas Luke says, that they had already begun to say, The Lord is risen indeed, what must we understand, except that there…
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Tertullian
“He pointedly reproached them: “O fools, and slow of heart in not believing that which He spake unto you.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 25.
Read the whole comment“These two verses he omitted, and changed the words at the end of ver. 25, ἐλάλησαν οἱ προφῆται, into ἐλάλησα ὑμῖν.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 24:25–35 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 24:25–35 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Catechism §112.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 18:31–34 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 18:31–34 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 18:31–34 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 18:31–34 (2) (Catena Aurea).