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Luke 17:11

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Alexandria

Again the Saviour manifests unto us His glory, and by working godlike miracles, endeavours to win senseless Israel unto faith, obdurate though he was, and unbelieving. What argument then will avail him at the day of judgment for refusing to accept salvation through Christ? Especially when they themselves heard His words, and were eyewitnesses of His ineffable miracles? …

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 113-116 (fragments) ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

And from this anyone can understand that nothing prevents anyone from pleasing God, even if he be from a cursed race, so long as he has good will.

Commentary on Luke ↗

Titus of Bostra

Saying, And it came to pass, showing that the Samaritans were indeed well disposed towards the mercies above mentioned, but the Jews not so. For there was enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans, and He to allay this, passed into the midst of both nations, that he might cement both into one new man.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

The lepers may be taken mystically for those who, having no knowledge of the true faith, profess various erroneous doctrines. For they do not conceal their ignorance, but blazen it forth as the highest wisdom, making a vain show of it with boasting words. …

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Ambrose of Milan

After speaking the foregoing parable, our Lord censures the ungrateful...

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Bonaventure

And it came to pass, as Jesus was going, etc. After he instructed his disciples in spiritual works of piety by a reasonable teaching and led them by hand through a perceptible example, here now in the third place he confirms them by a miraculous deed, in which the disciples themselves, from the miraculous work they witnessed, are confirmed unto believing, and from understanding it are enkindled unto imitating. And therefore this miracle must be treated simultaneously in both its literal and spiritual sense. …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 17 ↗