Mateus 10

Glossa Ordinaria

Mateus 10:1

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ord.) From the healing of Peter's wife's mother to this place there has been a continued succession of miracles; and they were done before the Sermon upon the Mount, as we know for certain from Matthew's call, which is placed among them; for he was one of the twelve chosen to the Apostleship upon the mount. He here returns to the order of events, taking it up again at the healing of the centurion's servant; saying, And calling to him his twelve disciples. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:2-4

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (vid. Greg. Hom. in Ev. xvii. 1.) And this doubling seems to have some reference to the two precepts of charity, or to the two Testaments. (non occ.) They are named two and two to express their union as yoke-fellows. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:5

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) Because the manifestation of the Spirit, as the Apostle speaks, is given for the profit of the Church, after bestowing His power on the Apostles, He sends them that they may exercise this power for the good of others; These twelve Jesus sent forth. (ap. Anselm.) The Samaritans were Gentiles who had been settled in the land of Israel by the king of Assyria after the captivity which he made. They had been driven by many terrors to turn to Judaism, and had received circumcision and the five books of Moses, but renouncing every thing else; hence there was no communication between the Jews and the Samaritans. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:5-6

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) When He sends them, He teaches them whither they should go, what they should preach, and what they should do. And first, whither they should go; Giving them commandment, and saying, Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; hut go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:7

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) Having told them to whom they should go, He now introduces what they should preach; Go and preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:8

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) This He says, that Judas who had the bag might not use the above power for getting money; a plain condemnation of the abomination of the simoniacal heresy. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:9-10

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) Whence He adds, Neither money in your purses. For there are two kinds of things necessary; one is the means of buying necessaries, which is signified by the money in their purses; the other the necessaries themselves, which are signified by the scrip. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:12

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (interlin.) As much as to say, Pray ye for peace upon the master of the house, that all resistance to the truth may be pacified. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:16-18

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ap. Anselm.) Ye have indeed need to be wise as serpents, for, as they are wont to do, they will deliver you to councils, forbidding you to preach in My name; then if ye be not corrected, they will scourge you, and at length ye shall be brought before kings and governors. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:21-22

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ap. Anselm.) Having placed the comfort first, He adds the more alarming perils; Brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father the son; children shall rise against parents, to put them to death. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:24-25

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ord.) As much as to say, Be not indignant that ye suffer things, which I also suffer, because I am your lord, who do what I will, and your master, who teach you what I know to be profitable for you. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:27

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ord.) Otherwise; What I say unto you while you are yet held under carnal fear, that speak ye in the confidence of truth, after ye shall be enlightened by the Holy Spirit; what you have only heard, that preach by doing the same, being raised above your bodies, which are the dwellings of your souls. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:34-36

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (interlin.) Or connect it with what has gone before, As the fear of death ought not to draw you away, so neither ought carnal affection. (interlin.) Otherwise; He means, I am not come among men to strengthen their carnal affections, but to cut them off with the sword of the Spirit; whence it is rightly added, And a man's foes are they of his household. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:37

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) It seems to happen in many cases that the parents love the children more than the children love the parents; therefore having taught that His love is to be preferred to the love of parents, as in an ascending scale, He next teaches that it is to be preferred to the love of children, saying, And whoso loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 10:42

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) Note, that God looks more to the pious mind of the giver, than to the abundance of the thing given. (ord.) Or, the least are they who have nothing at all in this world, and shall be judges with Christ. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas