Lucas 8
Origen of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Lucas 8:4-5
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And therefore it is significantly said, When much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city. For not many but few there are who walk the strait road, and find the way which leadeth to life. Hence Matthew says, that He taught without the house by parables, but within the house explained the parable to His disciples. (Matt. 13:36.) (in Prov. 1.) Now a parable is a narration of an action as done, yet not done according to the letter, though it might have been, representing certain things by means of others which are given in the parable. An enigma is a continued story of things which are spoken of as done, and yet have not been done, nor are possible to be done, but contains a concealed meaning, as that which is mentioned in the Book of Judges, that the trees went forth to anoint a king over them. (Judges 9:8.) But it was not literally a fact as is said, A sower went out to sow, like those facts related in history, yet it might have been so. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 8:5-8
If we hear "the word" and from this hearing our earth "immediately" produces vegetation that "withers" before it comes to maturity or fruit, our earth will be called "rocky." Those things that are said should press forward in our ears with deeper roots so that they both "bear fruit" of works and contain the seeds of future works. Then each one on our earth will truly bear fruit in accordance with its potential, "some a hundred fold," some "sixty," others "thirty." We also considered it is necessary to admonish you that our fruit does not have "darnel" or "tares." This is so that it is not "beside the way" but sown in the way that says, "I am the way," so that the birds of heaven may not eat our fruits or our vine. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 1.4
Lucas 8:16
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But he who would adapt his lantern to the more perfect disciples of Christ, must persuade us by those things which were spoken of John, for he was a burning and a shining light. (John 5:35.) It becomes not him then who lights the light of reason in his soul to hide it under a bed where men sleep, nor under any vessel, for he who does this provides not for those who enter the house for whom the candle is prepared, but they must set it upon a candlestick, that is, the whole Church. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Lucas 8:16
Scripture does not say this about a tangible lamp but about a comprehensible one. One does not "light" the lamp and conceal it "with a vessel" or put it "under a bed, but on the lamp stand" within himself. The vessels of the house are the powers of the soul. The bed is the body. "Those who go in" are those who hear the teacher.…He calls the holy church a "lamp stand." By its proclamation, the Word of God gives light to all who are in this world and illuminates those in the house with the rays of the truth, filling the minds of all with divine knowledge. — FRAGMENTS ON LUKE 120, 122
Lucas 8:48
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But the same cure which the woman obtained by touching Him, our Saviour confirmed by His word; as it follows, And he said unto her, Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, that is, Be released from thy scourge. And indeed He first heals her soul by faith, then truly her body. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas