Mateus 3
Glossa Ordinaria
Mateus 3:1
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ap. Anselm.) The desert typically means a life removed from the temptations of the world, such as befits the penitent. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:2
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ord.) The Kingdom of Heaven shall come nigh you; for if it approached not, none would be able to gain it; for weak and blind they had not the way, which was Christ. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:3
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ord.) John then is, as it were, the voice of the word crying. The word is heard by the voice, that is, Christ by John. (interlin.) Or, faith is the way by which the word reaches the heart; when the life is amended the paths are made straight. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:4
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (interlin.) Or, faith is the way by which the word reaches the heart; when the life is amended the paths are made straight. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:5-6
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (interlin.) This baptism was only a forerunning of that to come, and did not forgive sinsd. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:7
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) It was necessary that after the teaching which he used to the common people, the Evangelist should give an example of the doctrine he delivered to the more advanced; therefore he says, Seeing many of the Pharisees, &c. (non occ.) When John saw those who seemed to be of great consideration among the Jews come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, &c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:8
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] If then ye would escape this wrath, Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:9
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ord.) It is faith's first lesson to believe that God is able to do whatever He will. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:11-12
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) As in the preceding words John had explained more at length what he had shortly preached in the words, Repent ye, so now follows a more full enlargement of the words, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:13
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) Christ having been proclaimed to the world by the preaching of His forerunner, now after long obscurity will manifest Himself to men. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 3:16
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (non occ.) Or, so bright a glory shone round about Christ, that the blue concave seemed to be actually cloven. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas