Lucas 9
Eusebius of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 9:1
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And that through them the whole race of mankind may be sought out, He not only gives them power to drive away evil spirits, but to cure all kind of diseases at His command; as it follows, And to cure diseases. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:1-2
The Lord and Savior, not very long after the beginning of his preaching, called the twelve apostles. He gave the name of apostles to them alone of all his disciples as a special honor. Later he proclaimed seventy others and sent them also out two by two in advance of himself into every place and city where he himself was to come. — ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 1.10
Lucas 9:3
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Wishing then that they should be free from the desire of wealth and the anxieties of life, He gave this injunction. He took it as a proof of their faith and courage, that when it was commanded them to lead a life of extreme poverty, they would not escape from what was ordered. For it was fitting that they should make a kind of bargain, receiving these saving virtues to recompense them for obedience to commands. And when He was making them soldiers of God, He girds them for battle against their enemies, by telling them to embrace poverty. For no soldier of God entangles himself in the affairs of a secular life. (2 Tim. 2:4.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:6
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But when the Lord had girded His disciples as soldiers of God with divine virtue and wise admonitions, sending them to the Jews as teachers and physicians, they afterwards went forth, as it follows, And they departed, and went through the towns preaching the gospel, and healing every where. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 9:28
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Our Lord, when He made known to His disciples the great mystery of His second coming, that it might not seem that they were to believe in His words only, proceeds to works, manifesting to them, through the eyes of their faith, the image of His kingdom; as it follows, And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas