Mateus 27
Remigius of Rheims
Mateus 27:4
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But they said, What is that to us? that is to say, What is it to us that He is righteous? See thou to it, i. e. to thy own deed what will come of it. Though some would read these in one, What must we think of you, when you confess that the man whom yourself have betrayed is innocent? — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:18
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] John explains what their envy was, when he says, Behold, the world is gone after him; (John 12:19.) and, If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him. (John 11:48.) Observe also that in place of what Matthew says, Jesus, who is called Christ, Mark says, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews? (Mark 15:9.) For the kings of the Jews alone were anointed, and from that anointing were called Christs. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:24
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] It was customary among the ancients, when one would refuse to participate in any crime, to take water and wash his hands before the people. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:28-29
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or otherwise, By the scarlet robe is denoted the Lord's flesh, which is spoken of as red by reason of shedding of His blood; by the crown of thorns His taking upon Him our sins, because He appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh. (Rom. 8:3.) — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:32
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] For this Simon was not a man of Jerusalem, but a foreigner, and denizen, being a Cyrenean; Cyrene is a town of Lybia. Simon is interpreted 'obedient,' and a Cyrenean 'an heir;' whence he well denotes the people of the Gentiles, which was strange to the testaments of God, but by believing became a fellow-citizen of the saints, of the household, and an heir of God. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:37
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] It was divinely provided that this title should be set up over His head, that the Jews might learn that not even by putting Him to death could they avoid having Him for their King; for in the very instrument of His death He not only did not lose, but rather confirmed His sovereignty. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:38
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] (ap. Gloss. ord.) Or, by the two thieves are denoted all those who strive after the continence of a strict life. They who do this with a single intention of pleasing God, are denoted by him who was crucified on the right hand; they who do it out of desire of human praise or any less worthy motive, are signified by him who was crucified on the left. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:40
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Aha! is an interjection of taunt and mockery. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:48
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Or otherwise; The Jews as degenerating from the wine of the Patriarchs and Prophets were vinegar; they had deceitful hearts, like to the winding holes and hollows in spunge. By the reed, Sacred Scripture is denoted, which was fulfilled in this action; for as we call that which the tongue utters, the Hebrew tongue, or the Greek tongue, for example; so the writing, or letters which the seed produces, we may call a reed. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:52-53
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] But some one will ask, what became of those who rose again when the Lord rose. We must believe that they rose again to be witnesses of the Lord's resurrection. Some have said that they died again, and were turned to dust, as Lazarus and the rest whom the Lord raised. But we must by no means give credit to these men's sayings, since if they were to die again, it would be greater torment to them, than if they had not risen again. We ought therefore to believe without hesitation that they who rose from the dead at the Lord's resurrection, ascended also into heaven together with Him. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:57
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] Arimathea is the same as Ramatha, the city of Helcana and Samuel, and is situated in the Chananitic country near Diospolis. This Joseph was a man of great dignity in respect of worldly station, but has the praise of much higher merit in God's sight, seeing he is described as righteous. Indeed he that should have the burial of the Lord's body ought to have been such, that he might be deserving of that office by righteous merit. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:59
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] The linen is grown out of the ground, and is bleached to whiteness with great labour, and thus this signifies that His body which was taken of the earth, that is of a Virgin, through the toil of passion came to the whiteness of immortality. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:61
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] When the Lord's body was buried, and the rest returned to their own places, the women alone, who had loved Him more attachedly adhered to Him, and with anxious care noted the place where the Lord's body was laid, that at fit time they might perform the service of their devotion to him. And to this day the holy women, that is, the lowly souls of the saints, do the like in this present world, and with pious assiduity wait while Christ's passion is being completed. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
Mateus 27:63
[(as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)] They say that He had declared, After three days I will rise again, in consequence of that He said above, As Jonas was three days and, three nights in the whale's belly, &c. (Matt. 12:40.) But let us see in what way He can be said to have risen again after three days. Some would have the three hours of darkness understood as one night, and the light succeeding the darkness as a day, but these do not know the force of figurative language. The sixth day of the week on which He suffered comprehended the foregoing night; then follows the night of the Sabbath with its own day, and the night of the Lord's day includes also its own day; and hence it is true that He rose again after three days. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas