Matthew 13:51

“They say unto Him, Yea, Lord.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 51. [R.V., omits “Lord,” so the oldest mss. and the Vulgate.—R.]

When the multitude had departed, the Lord spoke to His disciples in parables, by which they were instructed only so far as they understood them; wherefore He asks them, “Have ye understood all these things? They say…

For this is spoken especially to the Apostles, whom He would have not to hear only as the multitude, but to understand as having to teach others.

Then He praises them because they had understood; He saith unto them; “Therefore every Scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like unto an householder who bringeth out of his treasure things new and old.”

He said not ‘old and new,’ as He surely would have said had He not preferred to preserve the order of value rather than of time. But the Manichaeans while they think they should keep only the new promises of God,…

By this conclusion, whether did He desire to shew Aug. whom He intended by the treasure hid in the field — in which case we might understand the Holy Scriptures to be here meant, the two Testaments by the things new…

But if by things “new and old” in this passage we understand the two Testaments, we deny Abraham to have been learned, who although he knew indeed some deeds of the Old Testament, yet had not read the words. Neither…

Speaking to His disciples, He calls them Scribes on account of their knowledge, because they understood the things that He brought forward, both new and old, that is from the Law and from the Gospels; both being of…

Or the Apostles are called Scribes instructed, as being the Saviour’s notaries who wrote His words and precepts on fleshly tables of the heart with the sacraments of the heavenly kingdom, and abounded in the wealth…

Otherwise; The things old are, that the human race for its sin should suffer in eternal punishment; the things new, that they should be converted and live in the kingdom, First, He brought forward a comparison of the…