Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea · Chapter 10
Passages · 124
John 10:1–5
- John Chrysostom on John 10:1–5 — Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid Thee as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:1–5 — Or thus: Many go under the name of good men according to the standard of the world, and observe in some sort the commandments of the Law, who yet are not Christians. And these generally boast of themselves, as the…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:1–5 (2) — You have seen His description of a robber, now see that of the Shepherd: But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:1–5 (2) — He enters by the door, who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ, so as to feel and know, that if God became man for us, man should not think himself…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:1–5 (3) — The porter perhaps is Moses; for to him the oracles of God were committed.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:1–5 — Or, the Holy Spirit is the porter, by whom the Scriptures are unlocked, and reveal the truth to us.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:1–5 (3) — Or, the porter is our Lord Himself; for there is much less difference between a door and a porter, than between a door and a shepherd. And He has called Himself both the door and the shepherd. Why then not the door…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:1–5 (4) — As they had called Him a deceiver, and appealed to their own unbelief as the proof of it; (Which of the rulers believeth on Him?) He shews here that it was because they refused to hear Him, that they were put out of…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:1–5 (4) — He knew the names of the predestinated; as He saith to His disciples, Rejoice that your names are written in heaven. (Luke 19:14) And leadeth them out.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:1–5 (5) — He led out the sheep, when He sent them not out of the reach of, but into the midst of, the wolves. There seems to be a secret allusion to the blind man. He called him out of the midst of the Jews; and he heard His…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:1–5 (5) — And who is He who leads them out, but the Same who loosens the chain of their sins, that they may follow Him with free unfettered step?vatican.va
- Glossa Ordinaria on John 10:1–5 — And when He putteth forth His own sheep, He goeth before them, He leadeth them out from the darkness of ignorance into light, while He goeth before in the pillar of cloud, and fire.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:1–5 (6) — Shepherds always go behind their sheep; but He, on the contrary, goes before, to shew that He would lead all to the truth.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:1–5 (6) — And who is this that goeth before the sheep, but He who being raised from the dead, dieth no more; (Rom. 6:9) and who said, Father, I will also that they, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am? (Infra 17:24)…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:1–5 (7) — The strangers are Theudas, and Judas, and the false apostles who came after Christ. That He might not appear one of this number, He gives many marks of difference between Him and them. First, Christ brought men to…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:1–5 (2) — He alludes to Antichrist, who shall deceive for a time, but lose all his followers when he dies.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:1–5 (7) — But here is a difficulty. Sometimes they who are not sheep hear Christ’s voice; for Judas heard, who was a wolf. And sometimes the sheep hear Him not; for they who crucified Christ heard not; yet some of them were…vatican.va
John 10:6
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:6 — Our Lord feedeth by plain words, exerciseth by obscure. For when two persons, one godly, the other ungodly, hear the words of the Gospel, and they happen to be such that neither can understand them; one says, What He…vatican.va
John 10:7–10
- John Chrysostom on John 10:7–10 — Our Lord, to waken the attention of the Jews, unfolds the meaning of what He has said; Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:7–10 — Lo, the very door which He had shut up, He openeth; He is the Door: let us enter, and let us enter with joy. All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:7–10 (2) — He saith not this of the Prophets, as the heretics think, but of Theudas, and Judas, and other agitators. So he adds in praise of the sheep, The sheep heard them not; but he no where praises those who disobeyed the…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:7–10 (2) — Understand, All that ever came at variance with Me. The Prophets were not at variance2 with Him. They came with Him, who came with the Word of God, who spake the truth. He, the Word, the Truth, sent heralds before…vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:7–10 — As if to say, The sheep hear not them, but Me they hear; for I am the Door, and whoever entereth by Me not falsely but in sincerity, shall by perseverance be saved.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:7–10 — The door admits the sheep into the pasture; And shall go in and out, and find pasture. What is this pasture, but the happiness to come, the rest to which our Lord brings us?vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:7–10 (3) — What is this, shall go in and out? To enter into the Church by Christ the Door, is a very good thing, but to go out of the Church is not. Going in must refer to inward cogitation; going out to outward action; as in…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:7–10 (2) — Or, to go in is to watch over the inner man; to go out, (Colos. 3) to mortify the outward man, i. e. our members which are upon the earth. He that doth this shall find pasture in the life to come.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:7–10 (3) — Or, He refers to the Apostles who went in and out boldly; for they became the masters of the world, none could turn them out of their kingdom, and they found pasture.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:7–10 (4) — But He Himself explains it more satisfactorily to me in what follows: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and for to kill: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. By…vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:7–10 — Shall go in, i. e. to faith: shall go out, i. e. to sight: and find pasture, i. e. in eternal fulness.vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:7–10 (2) — The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill. As if He said, And well may the sheep not hear the voice of the thief; for he cometh not but for to steal: he usurpeth another’s office, forming his followers not…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:7–10 (4) — The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; this was literally fulfilled in the case of those movers of seditiona, whose followers were nearly all destroyed; deprived by the thief even of this…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:7–10 (3) — Mystically, the thief is the devil, steals by wicked thoughts, kills by the assent of the mind to them, and destroys by acts.vatican.va
John 10:11–13
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 — Our Lord has acquainted us with two things which were obscure before; first, that He is the Door; and now again, that He is the Shepherd: I am the good Shepherd. (c. xlvii. 1, 3). Above He said that the shepherd…vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:11–13 — And He adds what that goodness (forma bonitatis) is, for our imitation: The good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep. He did what He bade, He set the example of what He commanded: He laid down His life for the…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (2) — Christ was not the only one who did this. And yet if they who did it are members of Him, one and the same Christ did it always. He was able to do it without them; they were not without Him.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (3) — All these however were good shepherds, not because they shed their blood, but because they did it for the sheep. For they shed it not in pride, but in love. Should any among the heretics suffer trouble in consequence…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:11–13 — Our Lord shews here that He did not undergo His passion unwillingly; but for the salvation of the world. He then gives the difference between the shepherd and the hireling: But he that is an hireling, and not the…vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:11–13 (2) — Some there are who love earthly possessions more than the sheep, and do not deserve the name of a shepherd. He who feeds the Lord’s flock for the sake of temporal hire, and not for love, is an hireling, not a…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (4) — He seeketh therefore in the Church, not God, but something else. If he sought God he would be chaste; for the soul hath but one lawful husband, God. Whoever seeketh from God any thing beside God, seeketh unchastely.vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:11–13 (3) — But whether a man be a shepherd or an hireling, cannot be told for certain, except in a time of trial. In tranquil times, the hireling generally stands watch like the shepherd. But when the wolf comes, then every one…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (5) — The wolf is the devil, and they that follow him; according to’ Matthew, Which come to you in sheeps’ clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matt. 7:15)vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (6) — Lo, the wolf hath seized a sheep by the throat, the devil hath enticed a man into adultery. The sinner must be excommunicated. But if he is excommunicated, he will be an enemy, he will plot, he will do as much harm…vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:11–13 (4) — The wolf too cometh upon the sheep, whenever any spoiler and unjust person oppresses the humble believers. And he who seems to be shepherd, but leaves the sheep and flees, is he who dares not to resist his violence,…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (7) — But if the Apostles were shepherds, not hirelings, why did they flee in persecution? And why did our Lord say, When they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another? (Mat. 10:23) Let us knock, then will come…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (8) — A servant of Christ, and minister of His Word and Sacraments, may flee from city to city, when he is specially aimed at by the persecutors, apart from his brethren; so that his flight does not leave the Church…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (9) — On the good side are the door, the porter, the shepherd, and the sheep; on the bad, the thieves, the robbers, the hirelings, the wolf.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (10) — We must love the shepherd, beware of the wolf, tolerate the hireling. For the hireling is useful so long as he sees not the wolf, the thief, and the robber. When he sees them, he flees.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:11–13 (11) — Indeed he would not be an hireling, did he not receive wages from the hirer. (c. 6). Sons wait patiently for the eternal inheritance of their father; the hireling looks eagerly for the temporal wages from his hirer;…vatican.va
John 10:14–21
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 — Two evil persons have been mentioned, one that kills, and robs the sheep, another that doth not hinder: the one standing for those movers of seditions; the other for the rulers of the Jews, who did not take care of…vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:14–21 — As if He said, I love My sheep, and they love and follow Me. For he who loves not the truth, is as yet very far from knowing it.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:14–21 — Hence the difference of the hireling and the Shepherd. The hireling does not know his sheep, because he sees them so little. The Shepherd knows His sheep, because He is so attractive to them.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 (2) — Then that thou mayest not attribute to the Shepherd and the sheep the same measure of knowledge, He adds, As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: i. e. I know Him as certainly as He knoweth Me. This then…vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:14–21 (2) — And I lay down My life for My sheep. As if to say, This is why I know My Father, and am known by the Father, because I lay down My life for My sheep; i. e. by My love for My sheep, I shew how much I love My Father.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 (3) — He gives it too as a proof of His authority. In the same way the Apostle maintains his own commission in opposition to the false Apostles, by enumerating his dangers and sufferings.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:14–21 (2) — For the deceivers did not expose their lives for the sheep, but, like hirelings, deserted their followers. Our Lord, on the other hand, protected His disciples: Let these go their way. (infr. 18:8)vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:14–21 (3) — But as He came to redeem not only the Jews, but the Gentiles, He adds, And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:14–21 — The sheep hitherto spoken of are those of the stock of Israel according to the flesh. But there were others of the stock of Israel, according to faith, Gentiles, who were as yet out of the fold; predestinated, but…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 (4) — What wonder that these should hear My voice, and follow Me, when others are waiting to do the same. Both these flocks are dispersed, and without shepherds; for it follows, And they shall hear My voice. And then He…vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:14–21 (4) — Of two flocks He maketh one fold, uniting the Jews and Gentiles in His faith.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:14–21 (3) — For there is one sign of baptism for all, and one Shepherd, even the Word of God. Let the Manichean mark; there is but one fold and one Shepherd set forth both in the Old and New Testaments.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:14–21 (2) — What does He mean then when He says, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Only, that whereas He manifested Himself personally to the Jews, He did not go Himself to the Gentiles, but sent others.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 (5) — The word must here (I must bring) does not signify necessity, but only that the thing would take place. Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. They had called Him an…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:14–21 (3) — i. e. Because I die, to rise again. There is great force in, I lay down. Let not the Jews, He says, boast; rage they may, but if I should not choose to lay down My life, what will they do by raging?vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:14–21 (4) — The Father does not bestow His love on the Son as a reward for the death He suffered in our behalf; but He loves Him, as beholding in the Begotten His own essence, whence proceeded such love for mankind.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 (6) — Or He says, in condescension to our weakness, Though there were nothing else which made Me love you, this would, that ye are so loved by My Father, that, by dying for you, I shall win His love. Not that He was not…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:14–21 (4) — Wherein He shewed that His natural death was not the consequence of sin in Him, but of His own simple will, which was the why, the when, and the how: I have power to lay it down.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 (7) — As they had often plotted to kill Him, He tells them their efforts will be useless, unless He is willing. I have such power over My own life, that no one can take it from Me, against My will. This is not true of men.…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:14–21 (5) — He only means His perfect agreement with His Father.vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:14–21 — For the Word doth not receive a command by word, but containeth in Himself all the Father’s commandments. When the Son is said to receive what He possesseth of Himself, His power is not lessened, but only His…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:14–21 (6) — After declaring Himself the Master of His own life and death, which was a lofty assumption, He makes a more humble confession; thus wonderfully uniting both characters; shewing that He was neither inferior to or a…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:14–21 (5) — How doth our Lord lay down His own life? Christ is the Word, and man, i. e. in soul and body. Doth the Word lay down His life, and take it again; or doth the human soul, or doth the flesh? If it was the Word of God…vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:14–21 (2) — But the light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a division among the Jews for these sayings. And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:14–21 (8) — Because He spoke as one greater than man, they said He had a devil. But that He had not a devil, others proved from His works: Others said, These are not the words of Him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes…vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:14–21 (3) — We have heard of the patience of God, and of salvation preached amid revilings. They obstinately preferred tempting Him to obeying Him.vatican.va
John 10:22–30
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 — And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication. Encænia is the feast of the dedication of the temple; from the Greek word καινὸν, signifying new. The dedication of any thing new was called encænia.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:22–30 — It was the feast of the dedication of the temple, after the return from the Babylonish captivity.vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:22–30 — Or, it was in memory of the dedication under Judas Maccabeus. The first dedication was that of Solomon in the autumn; the second that of Zorobabel, and the priest Jesus in the spring. This was in winter time.vatican.va
- Bede on John 10:22–30 — Judas Maccabeus instituted an annual commemoration of this dedication.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:22–30 — The Evangelist mentions the time of winter, to shew that it was near His passion. He suffered in the following spring; for which reason He took up His abode at Jerusalem.vatican.va
- Gregory the Great on John 10:22–30 — Or because the season of cold was in keeping with the cold malicious hearts of the Jews.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:22–30 (2) — Christ was present with much zeal at this feast, and thenceforth stayed 1in Judæa; His passion being now at hand. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:22–30 (2) — It is called Solomon’s porch, because Solomon went to pray there. The porches of a temple are usually named after the temple. If the Son of God walked in a temple where the flesh of brute animals was offered up, how…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:22–30 (2) — Be thou also careful, in the winter time, i. e. while yet in this stormy wicked world, to celebrate the dedication of thy spiritual temple, by ever renewing thyself, ever rising upward in heart. Then will Jesus be…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (2) — The Jews cold in love, burning in their malevolence, approached Him not to honour, but persecute. Then came the Jews round about Him, and said unto Him, How long dost Thou make us to doubt? If Thou be the Christ,…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:22–30 (3) — Being able to find no fault with His works, they tried to catch Him in His words. And mark their perversity. When He instructs by His discourse, they say, What sign shewest Thou? When He demonstrates by His works,…vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:22–30 (3) — They accuse Him of keeping their minds in suspense and uncertainty, who had come to save their soulsa.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (3) — They wanted our Lord to say, I am the Christ. Perhaps, as they had human notions of the Messiah, having failed to discern His divinity in the Prophets, they wanted Christ to confess Himself the Messiah, of the seed…vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:22–30 (4) — And thus they intended to give Him into the hands of the Proconsul for punishment, as an usurper against the emperor. Our Lord so managed His reply as to stop the mouths of His calumniators, open those of the…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:22–30 (4) — He reproves their malice, for pretending that a single word would convince them, whom so many words had not. If you do not believe My works, He says, how will you believe My words? And He adds why they do not…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (4) — He saw that they were persons predestinated to eternal death, and not those for whom He had bought eternal life, at the price of His blood. The sheep believe, and follow the Shepherd.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:22–30 (3) — After He had said, Ye are not of My sheep, He exhorts them to become such: My sheep hear My voice.vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:22–30 (5) — i. e. Obey My precepts from the heart. And I know them, and they follow Me, here by walking in gentleness and innocence, hereafter by entering the joys of eternal life: And I give unto them eternal life.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (5) — This is the pasture of which He spoke before: And shall find pasture. Eternal life is called a goodly pasture: the grass thereof withereth not, all is spread with verdure. But these cavillers thought only of this…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:22–30 (4) — But how then did Judas perish? Because he did not continue to the end. Christ speaks of them who persevere. If any sheep is separated from the flock, and wanders from the Shepherd, it incurs danger immediately.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (6) — And He adds why they do not perish: Neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. (2 Tim. 2:19) Of those sheep of which it is said, The Lord knoweth then that are His, the wolf robbeth none, the thief taketh none,…vatican.va
- Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:22–30 — This is the speech of conscious power. Yet to shew, that though of the Divine nature He hath His nativity from God, He adds, My Father which gave Me them is greater than all. He does not conceal His birth from the…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (7) — The Son, born from ever lasting of the Father, God from God, has not equality with the Father by growth, but by birth. This is that greater than all which the Father gave Himb; viz. to be His Word, to be His…vatican.va
- Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:22–30 (2) — The hand of the Son is spoken of as the hand of the Father, to let thee see, by a bodily representation, that both have the same nature, that the nature and virtue of the Father is in the Son also.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:22–30 (5) — Then that thou mayest not suppose that the Father’s power protects the sheep, while He is Himself too weak to do so, He adds, I and My Father are one.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (8) — Mark both those words, one and are, and thou wilt be delivered from Scylla and Charybdis. In that He says, one the Arian, in we are the Sabellian, is answered. There are both Father and Son. And if one, then there is…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:22–30 (9) — We are one. What He is, that am I, in respect of essence, not of relation.vatican.va
- Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:22–30 (3) — The heretics, since they cannot gainsay these words, endeavour by an impious lie to explain them away. They maintain that this unity is unanimity only; a unity of will, not of nature; i. e. that the two are one, not…vatican.va
John 10:31–38
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 — At this speech, I and My Father are one, the Jews could not restrain their rage, but ran to take up stones, after their hardhearted way: Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.vatican.va
- Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:31–38 — The heretics now, as unbelieving and rebellious against our Lord in heaven, shew their impious hatred by the stones, i. e. the words they cast at Him; as if they would drag Him down again from His throne to the cross.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:31–38 — Our Lord remonstrates with them; Many good works have I shewed you from My Father, shewing that they had no just reason for their anger.vatican.va
- Alcuin of York on John 10:31–38 — Healing of the sick, teaching, miracles. He shewed them of the Father, because He sought His Father’s glory in all of them. For which of these works do ye stone Me? They confess, though reluctantly, the benefit they…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 (2) — This is their answer to the speech, I and My Father are one. Lo, the Jews understood what the Arians understand not. For they are angry for this very reason, that they could not conceive but that by saying, I and My…vatican.va
- Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:31–38 (2) — The Jew saith, Thou being a man, the Arian, Thou being a creature: but both say, Thou makest Thyself God. The Arian supposes a God of a new and different substance, a God of another kind, or not a God at all. He…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:31–38 — Our Lord did not correct the Jews, as if they misunderstood His speech, but confirmed and defended it, in the very sense in which they had taken it. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 (3) — i. e. the Law given to you, I have said, Ye are Gods? (Ps. 82:6) God saith this by the Prophet in the Psalm. Our Lord calls all those Scriptures the Law generally, though elsewhere He spiritually distinguishes the…vatican.va
- Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:31–38 (3) — Before proving that He and His Father are one, He answers the absurd and foolish charge brought against Him, that He being man made Himself God. When the Law applied this title to holy men, and the indelible word of…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 (4) — Or sanctified, i. e. in begetting, gave Him holiness, begat Him holy. If men to whom the word of God came were called gods, much more the Word of God Himself is God. If men by partaking of the word of God were made…vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:31–38 (2) — Or, sanctified, i. e. set apart to be sacrificed for the world: a proof that He was God in a higher sense than the rest. To save the world is a divine work, not that of a man made divine by grace.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:31–38 (2) — Or, we must consider this a speech of humility, made to conciliate men. After it he leads them to higher things; If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not; which is as much as to say, that He is not inferior…vatican.va
- Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:31–38 (4) — What place hath adoption, or the mere conception of a name then, that we should not believe Him to be the Son of God by nature, when He tells us to believe Him to be the Son of God, because the Father’s nature shewed…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 (5) — The Son doth not say, The Father is in Me, and I in Him, in the sense in which men who think and act aright may say the like; meaning that they partake of God’s grace, and are enlightened by His Spirit. The…vatican.va
John 10:39–42
- Bede on John 10:39–42 — The Jews still persist in their madness; Therefore they sought again to take Him.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:39–42 — To lay hold of Him, not by faith and the understanding, but with bloodthirsty violence. Do thou so lay hold of Him, that thou mayest have sure hold; they would fain have laid hold on Him, but they could not: for it…vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:39–42 — Christ, after discoursing on some high truth, commonly retires immediately, to give time to the fury of people to abate, during His absence. Thus He did now: He went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where…vatican.va
- Bede on John 10:39–42 (2) — He was followed there by many: And many resorted unto Him, and said, John did no miracle.vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:39–42 (2) — did not cast out devils, did not give sight to the blind, did not raise the dead.vatican.va
- John Chrysostom on John 10:39–42 (2) — Mark their reasoning, John did no miracle, but this Man did; wherefore He is the superior. But lest the absence of miracles should lessen the weight of John’s testimony, they add, But all things that John spake of…vatican.va
- Augustine of Hippo on John 10:39–42 (3) — These laid hold of Him while abiding, not, like the Jews, when departing. Let us approach by the candle to the day. John is the candle, and gave testimony to the day.vatican.va
- Theophylact of Ohrid on John 10:39–42 — We may observe that our Lord often brings out the people into solitary places, thus ridding them of the society of the unbelieving, for their furtherance in the faith: just as He led the people into the wilderness,…vatican.va
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