Luke 24:37 (WEB)
But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
Catechism · 1
“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.
Fathers and councils · 25
John Damascene
“Handle Me and see, the Lord said to His own disciples when they were thinking that they saw a spirit, that it is I Myself, and that I am not changed: for a spirit hath not flesh or bones, as ye see Me have.” — editor's note: St. Luke xxiv. 37.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Then after He had risen He entered through closed doors: but they believed not that it was He: for they supposed that they beheld a spirit.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 37.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The disciples marvelled, and at first believed not, until they touched and handled.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 37–40.
Read the whole comment“And when He had thus spoken, He showed them His hands and His feet.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 36–40.
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John Chrysostom
“This Luke also mentions; but this is not the same occasion, but a different one.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 37. “But they were terrified and affrighted.”
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Tertullian
“See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; for a spirit hath not bones, as ye see me have.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 37–39.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
The report of Christ’s resurrection being published every where by the Apostles, and while the anxiety of the disciples was easily awakened to see Christ, He that was so much desired comes, and is revealed to them…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
This manifestation of our Lord after His resurrection, John also relates. But when John says that the Apostle Thomas was not with the rest, while according to Luke, the two disciples on their return to Jerusalem…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Therefore I think it most natural that our Lord indeed instructed His disciples, that they should see Him in Galilee, but that He first presents Himself as they remained still in the assembly through fear.
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
Nor was it a violation of His promise, but rather a mercifully hastened fulfilment on account of the cowardice of the disciples.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
But afterwards when their hearts were strengthened, the eleven set out for Galilee. Or there is no difficulty in supposing that they should be reported to have been fewer in the assembly, and a larger number on the…
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
For the two Evangelists, that is, Luke and John, write that He appeared to the eleven alone in Jerusalem, but those two disciples told not only the eleven, but all the disciples and brethren, that both the angel and…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But that which was said by the Angel, that is the Lord, must be taken prophetically, for by the word Galilee according to its meaning of transmigration, it is to be understood that they were about to pass over from…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord then standing in the midst of the disciples, first with His accustomed salutation of “peace,” allays their restlessness, shewing that He is the same Master who delighted in the word wherewith He also…
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NazianzusCatena Aurea on Luke
Let us then reverence the gift of peace, which Christ when He departed hence left to us. Peace both in name and reality is sweet, which also we have heard to be of God, as it is said, The peace of God; (Phil. 4:7.)…
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The disciples had known Christ to be really man, having been so long a time with Him; but after that He was dead, they do not believe that the real flesh could rise again from the grave on the third day. They think…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
But persuaded by the example of their virtues, we can not believe that Peter and John could have doubted. Why then does Luke relate them to have been affrighted. First of all because the declaration of the greater…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Because by the word of peace the agitation in the minds of the Apostles was not allayed, He shews by another token that He is the Son of God, in that He knew the secrets of their hearts; for it follows, And he said…
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What thoughts indeed but such as were false and dangerous. For Christ had lost the fruit of His passion, had He not been the Truth of the resurrection; just as if a good husbandman should say, What I have planted…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Here then was a most evident sign that He whom they now see was none other but the same whom they had seen dead on the cross, and lain in the sepulchre, who knew every thing that was in man.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Let us then consider how it happens that the Apostles according to John believed and rejoiced, according to Luke are reproved as unbelieving. John indeed seems to me, as being an Apostle, to have treated of greater…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Now our Lord testifying that death was overcome, and human nature had now in Christ put on incorruption, first shews them His hands and His feet, and the print of the nails; as it follows, Behold my hands and my…
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But He adds also another proof, namely, the handling of His hands and feet, when He says, Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. As if to say, Ye think me a spirit, that is to…
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Our Lord said this in order to afford us an image of our resurrection. For that which is handled is the body. But in our bodies we shall rise again. But the former is more subtle, the latter more carnal, as being…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
For in that glory of the resurrection our body will not be incapable of handling, and more subtle than the winds and the air, (as Eutychius said,) but while it is subtle indeed through the effect of spiritual power,…
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Eusebius of Caesarea on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).