Mateus 17
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Mateus 17:2
Indeed, Jesus himself shone as the sun, indicating that he is the light which illuminates every one who comes into this world. And this is the sun to the eyes of the flesh, that is the sun to the eyes of the heart. His garments are a type of his church. For garments, unless held up by the one having donned them, fall. Paul was like the lowest hem of these garments. For he himself says, "For I am the least of the apostles," 14 and in another passage, "I am the last of the apostles." On a garment, the hem is the last thing and the least. Just as that woman who touched the Lord's hem was made well, so the church which came out of the Gentiles was saved by means of Paul's preaching. — SERMON 78.2
Mateus 17:11
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Quaest. Ev. i. 21.) Or; He shall restore all things, that is those whom the persecution of Antichrist shall have overthrown; as He Himself should restore by His death those whom He ought. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 17:15
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Quaest. Ev. i. 22.) Or the fire pertains to anger, which aims upwards, water to the lusts of the flesh. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 17:19
In this chapter the Lord urged us to pray when he said, "Because of your little faith you could not cast out this demon." For urging us to prayer he thus concluded, "This kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting." If a man prays so that he may throw out someone else's demon, how much more so that he may cast out his own avarice? How much more so that he may cast out his own drunkenness? How much more so that he may cast out his own dissipation? How much more so that he may cast out his own impurity? How great are the sins in human beings! If they persevere in them, they do not allow them to enter the kingdom of heaven! — SERMON 80.3
Mateus 17:20
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ubi sup.) Otherwise; That the disciples in working their miracles should not be lifted up with pride, they are warned rather by the humbleness of their faith, as by a grain of mustard-seed, to take care that they remove all pride of earth, which is signified by the mountain in this place. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 17:26
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (Quæst. Ev. i. 23.) For, saith He, in every kingdom the children are free, that is, not under tax. Much more therefore should they be free in any earthly kingdom, who are children of that very kingdom under which are all the kingdoms of the earth. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas