Mateus 19
Remigius of Rheims
Mateus 19:5
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The Apostle says that this is a mystery in Christ and the Church (Eph. 5:32.); for the Lord Jesus Christ left His Father when He came down from heaven to earth; and He left His mother, that is, the synagogue, because of its unbelief, and clave unto His wife, that is, the Holy Church, and they two are one flesh, that is, Christ and the Church are one body. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:13
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] For it was a custom among the ancients that little children should be brought to aged persons, to receive benediction by their hand or tongue, and according to this custom little children are now brought to the Lord. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:15
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Also laying His hands upon them, He blessed them, to signify that the lowly in spirit are worthy His grace and blessing. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:17
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] These words prove that the Law gave to such as kept it not only temporal promises, but also life eternal. And because the hearing these things made him thoughtful, He saith unto him, Which? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:18-19
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] And Jesus, condescending as to a weak one, most graciously set out to him the precepts of the Law; Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder; and of all these precepts follows the exposition, And thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. For the Apostle says, Whoso loveth his neighbour has fulfilled the Law? (Prov. 13:10.) But it should be enquired, why the Lord has enumerated only the precepts of the Second Table? Perhaps because this young man was zealous in the love of God, or because love of our neighbour is the step by which we ascend to the love of God. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:21
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But to those who would be perfect in grace, He shows how they may come to perfection, Jesus saith unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go, and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor. Mark the words; He said not, Go, and consume all thou hast; but Go, and sell; and not some, as did Ananias and Sapphira, but All. And well He added, that thou hast, for what we have are our lawful possessions. Those therefore that he justly possessed were to be sold; what had been gained unjustly were to be restored to those from whom they had been taken. And He said not, Give to thy neighbours, nor to the rich, but to the poor. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:23
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Whence in Mark the Lord expounding the meaning of this saying, speaks thus, It is hard for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of heaven (Mark 10:24.) They trust in riches, who build all their hopes on them. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:26
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] This must not be so understood as though it were possible for God to cause that the rich, the covetous, the avaricious, and the proud should enter into the kingdom of heaven; but to cause him to be converted, and so enter. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 19:30
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] It may also be referred in particular to the rich man, who seemed to be first, by his fulfilment of the precepts of the Law, but was made last by his preferring his worldly substance to God. The holy Apostles seemed to be last, but by leaving all they were made first by the grace of humility. There are many who having entered upon good works, fall therefrom, and from having been first, become last. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas