Matthew 27:48 (WEB)
Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
Catechism · 1
“From the swaddling clothes of his birth to the vinegar of his Passion and the shroud of his Resurrection, everything in Jesus' life was a sign of his mystery.” — Catechism footnote: Cf Lk 2:7; Mt 27: 48; Jn 20:7.
Fathers and councils · 33
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus III.32Book III
“And when He had cried with a loud voice, He gave up the ghost,” anticipating the public executioners of the crucified, who break the legs of the victims, and who do so in order that their punishment may not be further prolonged.” — editor's note: Cf. Matt. xxvii. 46–50.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Rejoice, ye heavens, and let the earth be glad, for those who are to be sprinkled with hyssop, and cleansed with the spiritual hyssop, the power of Him to whom at His Passion drink was offered on hyssop and a reed.” — editor's note: S. Cyril here, and still more emphatically in xiii. 39, distinguishes the hyssop (John xix. 29) from the reed (Matt. xxvii. 48), implying that the sponge…
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Augustine of Hippo
“Matthew next makes this statement: “And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 48.
Read the whole comment“Then He hung on the cross itself at the sixth hour, and yielded up His spirit at the ninth hour.” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 23–50
Read the whole comment“For when the things which pertain to His passion are prophetically spoken there also in the person of Christ, that is mentioned which is unfolded in the Gospel: “They gave me gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar for drink.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 21; Matt. xxvii. 34, 48.
Read the whole comment“For as we read in the other evangelists, what is omitted by this one, it was fixed on a reed, so that such drink as was contained in the sponge might be raised to the highest part of the cross.” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 48, and Mark xv. 36.
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John Chrysostom
“Matt. XXVII. 45-48.” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“And so the “pressure” must be maintained up to that hour in which the orb—involved from the sixth hour in a general darkness—performed for its dead Lord a sorrowful act of duty; so that we too may then return to enjoyment when the universe regained its sunshine.” — editor's note: See Matt. xxvii. 45–54; Mark xvi. 33–39; Luke xxiii. 44–47.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
Some take occasion from this text to cavil against the truth of the Gospel. For indeed from the beginning eclipses of the sun have happened in their proper seasons; but such an eclipse as would be brought about by…
Read the whole comment - Dionysius the AreopagiteCatena Aurea on Matthew
When we were together at Heliopolis, we both observed such an interference of the moon with the sun quite unexpectedly, for it was not the season of their conjunction; and then from the ninth hour until evening,…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
This darkness lasted three hours, whereas an eclipse is transient, and not enduring, as they know who have studied the matter.
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
Against this the children of this world urge, How is it that of the Greeks and Barbarians, who have made observations of these things, not one has recorded so remarkable a phenomenon as this? Phlegon indeed has…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or otherwise; The wonder was in this, that the darkness was over the whole earth, which had never come to pass before, save only in Egypt what time the Passover was celebrated; for the things done then were a type of…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
He employed the beginning of the twenty-first Psalm. [marg. note: Ps 22:1, Vulg.] That clause in the middle of the verse, “Look upon me,” is superfluous; for the Hebrew has only ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani,’ that is,…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
He uttered this word of prophecy, that He might bear witness to the very last hour to the Old Testament, and that they might see that He honours the Father, and is not against God. And therefore too, He used the…
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But it must be asked, What means this, that Christ is forsaken of God? Some, unable to explain how Christ could be forsaken of God, say that this was spoken out of humility. But you will be able clearly to comprehend…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
From these words heretical spirits contend either that God the Word was entirely absorbed into the soul at the time it discharged the function of a soul in quickening the body; or that Christ could not have been born…
Read the whole comment - Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
God is said to have forsaken Him in death because He exposed Him to the power of His persecutors; He withdrew His protection, but did not break the union.
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
When He saw darkness over the whole land of Judaea He said this, Father, “why hast thou forsaken me?” meaning, Why hast thou given Me over exhausted to such sufferings? that the people who were honoured by Thee may…
Read the whole comment - Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or, The Saviour said this as bearing about with Him our feelings, who when placed in dangers think ourselves forsaken by God. Human nature was forsaken by God because of its sins, and the Son of God becoming our…
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It follows, “Some of them that stood by,” &c.; “some,” not all; whom I suppose to have been Roman soldiers, ignorant of Hebrew, but from the words “Eli, Eli,” thought that He called upon Elias. But if we prefer to…
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Thus the Source of living water is made to drink vinegar, the Giver of honey is fed with gall; Forgiveness is scourged, Acquittance is condemned, Majesty is mocked, Virtue ridiculed, the Bestower of showers is repaid…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
Vinegar is wine, which has turned sour either from neglect, or the fault of the vessel. Wine is the honour of immortality, or virtue. When this then had been turned sour in Adam, He took and drunk it at the hands of…
Read the whole comment - Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or otherwise; The Jews as degenerating from the wine of the Patriarchs and Prophets were vinegar; they had deceitful hearts, like to the winding holes and hollows in spunge. By the reed, Sacred Scripture is denoted,…
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And perhaps all who know the ecclesiastical doctrine, but live amiss, have given them to drink wine mingled with gall; but they who attribute to Christ untrue opinions, these filling a sponge with vinegar, put it…
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The soldiers misunderstanding the sound of the Lord’s words, foolishly looked for the coming of Elias. But God, whom the Saviour thus invoked in the Hebrew tongue, He had in ever inseparably with Him.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
When now nought of suffering remains to be endured, death still lingers, knowing that it has nothing there. The ancient foe suspected somewhat unusual. This man, first and only, he found having no sin, free from…
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Far be from the faithful any suspicion that Christ experienced our death in such sort that life (as far as it can) ceased to live. Had this been so, how could aught have been said to live during that three days, if…
Read the whole comment - John DamasceneCatena Aurea on Matthew
Although He died as man, and His holy soul was separated from His unstained body, yet His Godhead remained inseparate from either body or soul. Yet was not the one Person divided into two; for as both body and soul…
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It was a mark of Divine power in Him thus to dismiss the Spirit as Himself had said, “No man can take my life from me, but I lay it down and take it again.” [John 10:18] For by “the ghost” in this place we understand…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Also for this reason He cried out with a loud voice to shew that this is done by His own power. For by crying out with a loud voice when dying, He shewed incontestably that He was the true God; because a man in dying…
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Luke mentions the words which He thus cries out, “Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit.”
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or, He gave up the ghost with a loud voice, in grief that He was not carrying the sins of all men.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in Catechism §515.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.18.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.18.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.18.
Cited together in Catechism §515.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.18.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.18.
Cited together in Against Celsus III.32.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:45–50 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §515.
Cited together in Catechism §515.
Cited together in Catechism §515.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 27:45–50 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus III.32.
Cited together in Against Celsus III.32.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.19.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.19.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.19.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:45–50 (3) (Catena Aurea).