Mateus 8

Hilary of Poitiers · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Mateus 8:4

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or that this healing might be sought rather than offered, therefore silence is enjoined. Or we may read, Which Moses commanded for a testimony; inasmuch as what Moses commanded in the Law is a testimony, not an effect. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:5-6

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Spiritually interpreted, the Gentiles are the sick in this world, and afflicted with the diseases of sin, all their limbs being altogether unnerved, and unfit for their duties of standing and walking. The sacrament of their salvation is fulfilled in this centurion's servant, of whom it is sufficiently declared that he was the head of the Gentiles that should believe. What sort of head this is, the song of Moses in Deuteronomy teaches, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the Angels. (Deut. 32:8.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:8-9

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Also he therefore says that it needed only a word to heal his son, because all the salvation of the Gentiles is of faith, and the life of them all is in the precepts of the Lord; therefore he continues saying, For I am a man set under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:14-15

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or; In Peter's wife's mother is shown the sickly condition of infidelity, to which freedom of will is near akin, being united by the bonds as it were of wedlock. By the Lord's entrance into Peter's house, that is into the body, unbelief is cured, which was before sick of the fever of sin, and ministers in duties of righteousness to the Saviour. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:16-17

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And by the passion of His body, according to the words of the Prophet, He absorbed all the infirmities of human weakness. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:19

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Otherwise; This Scribe being one of the doctors of the Law, asks if he shall follow Him, as though it were not contained in the Law that this is He whom it were gain to follow. Therefore He discovers the feeling of unbelief under the diffidence of his enquiry. For the taking up of the faith is not by question but by following. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:21

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The name disciples is not to be supposed to be confined to the twelve Apostles; for we read of many disciples besides the twelve. The disciple does not ask whether he shall follow Him; for he already believed that he ought to follow, but prays to be suffered first to bury his father. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:22

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Also, because we are taught in the beginning of the Lord's prayer, first to say, Our Father, which art in heaven; and since this disciple represents the believing people; he is here reminded that he has one only Father in heaven, and that between a believing son and an unbelieving Father the filial relation does not hold good. We are also admonished that the unbelieving dead are not to be mingled with the memories of the saints, and that they are also dead who live out of God; and the dead are buried by the dead, because by the faith of God it behoves the living to cleave to the living (God.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:24

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or; He sleeps, because by our sloth He is cast asleep in us. This is done that we may hope aid from God in fear of danger; and that hope though late may be confident that it shall escape danger by the might of Christ watching within. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:28

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Thus the dæmons held the two men among the tombs without the town, that is, without the synagogue of the Law and the Prophets; that is, they infested the original seats of the two nations, the abodes of the dead, making the way of this present life dangerous to the passers by. By their coming forth to meet Him is signified the willingness of men flocking to the faith. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:31-32

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The dæmons seeing that there is no longer any place left for them among the Gentiles, pray that they may be suffered to dwell among the heretics; these, seized by them, are drowned in the sea, that is, in worldly desires, by the instigations of the dæmons, and perish in the unbelief of the rest of the Gentiles. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Mateus 8:34

[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or; The town is a type of the Jewish nation, which having heard of Christ's works goes forth to meet its Lord, to forbid Him to approach their country and town; for they have not received the Gospel. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas