Luke 5:16 (WEB)
But he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.
Catechism · 1
“Jesus often draws apart to pray in solitude, on a mountain, preferably at night.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 1:35; 6:46; Lk 5:16.
Fathers and councils · 28
John Chrysostom
““For when He was come down from the mountain, there came a leper, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.”” — editor's note: Matt. vii. 2. [The first clause is from verse 1; and the passages are joined to point the lesson from the assumed delay. But there can be little doubt that the…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Nor was it only in words, but in deeds also, that the Lord taught us to pray, Himself praying frequently and beseeching, and thus showing us, by the testimony of His example, what it behoved us to do, as it is written, “But Himself departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.”” — editor's note: Luke v. 16.
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Tertullian
“The sick of the palsy is healed, and that in public, in the sight of the people.” — editor's note: Luke v. 16–26.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
The fourth miracle after Jesus came to Capernaum was the healing of a leprous man. But since He illumined the fourth day with the sun, and made it more glorious than the rest, we ought to think this work more…
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Now the leper worshipped the Lord God in His bodily form, and thought not the Word of God to be a creature because of His flesh, nor because He was the Word did he think lightly of the flesh which He put on; nay…
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In falling upon his face he marked his humility and modesty, for every one should blush at the stains of his life, but his reverence kept not back his confession, he shews his wound, and asks for a remedy, saying, If…
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For he knew that leprosy yields not to the skill of physicians, but he saw the devils cast out by the Divine authority, and multitudes cured of divers diseases, all which he conceived was the work of the Divine arm.
Read the whole comment - Titus of BostraCatena Aurea on Luke
Let us learn from the words of the leper not to go about seeking the cure of our bodily infirmities, but to commit the whole to the will of God, Who knows what is best for us, and disposes all things as He will.
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He heals in the same manner in which He had been entreated to heal, as it follows, And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, &c. The law forbids to touch the leprous man, but He who is the Lord of the law…
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For His sacred flesh has a healing, and life-giving power, as being indeed the flesh of the Word of God.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
In the words which follow, I will, be thou clean, you have the will, you have also the result of His mercy.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
From majesty alone proceeds the royal command, how then is the Only-begotten counted among the servants, who by His mere will can do all things? We read of God the Father, that He hath done all things whatsoever He…
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
And because the Deity is united with each portion of man, i. e. both soul and body, in each are evident the signs of a heavenly nature. For the body declared the Deity hidden in it, when by touching it afforded a…
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He says then, I will, for Photinus, He commands, for Arius, He touches, for Manichæus. But there is nothing intervening between God’s work and His command, that we may see in the inclination of the healer the power…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Though the leper was silent, the voice of the transaction itself was sufficient to publish it to all who acknowledged through him the power of the Curer.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
And since frequently men, when they are sick, remember God, but when they recover, wax dull, He bids him to always keep God before his eyes, giving glory to God. Hence it follows, But go and shew thyself to the…
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And that the Priest also should know that not by the order of the law, but by the grace of God above the law, he was cured. And since a sacrifice is commanded by the regulation of Moses, the Lord shews that He does…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
He seems here to approve of the sacrifice which had been commanded through Moses, though the Church does not require it. It may therefore be understood to have been commanded, because not as yet had commenced that…
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Or because the law is spiritual He seems to have commanded a spiritual sacrifice. Hence he said, As Moses commanded. Lastly, he adds, for a testimony unto them. The heretics understand this erroneously, saying, that…
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He says then, for a testimony unto them, because this deed makes manifest that Christ in His incomparable excellence is far above Moses. For when Moses could not rid his sister of the leprosy, he prayed the Lord to…
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Or, for a testimony against them, i. e. as a reproof of them, and a testimony that I respect the law. For now too that I have cured thee, I send thee for the examination of the priests, that thou shouldest bear me…
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Now the perfect healing of one brings many multitudes to the Lord, as it follows, And great multitudes came together that they should be healed. For the leprous man that he might shew both his outward and inward…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
Our Redeemer performs His miracles by day, and passes the night in prayer, as it follows, And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed, hinting, as it were, to perfect preachers, that as neither they…
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Now that He retired to pray, you would not ascribe to that nature which says, I will, be thou clean, but to that which putting forth the hand touched the leprous man, not that according to Nestorius there is a double…
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NazianzusCatena Aurea on Luke
And His works He indeed performed among the people, but He prayed for the most part in the wilderness, sanctioning the liberty of resting a while from labour to hold converse with God with a pure heart. For He needed…
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How typically the leprous man represents the whole race of man, languishing with sins full of leprosy, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; (Rom. 3:23.) that so by the hand put forth, i. e. the…
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But if the word is the healing of leprosy, the contempt of the word is the leprosy of the mind.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
But mark, that after a man has been cleansed he is then worthy to offer this gift, namely, the body and blood of the Lord, which is united to the Divine nature.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Bede on Luke 5:12–16 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2602.
Cited together in Catechism §2602.
Cited together in Catechism §2602.
Cited together in Catechism §2602.
Cited together in Catechism §2602.