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Luke 19:47

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Alexandria

Now from what Christ had said and done it was meet that men should worship Him as God, but far from doing this, they sought to slay Him; as it follows, But the chief priests and scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

But because our Redeemer does not withhold the words of preaching even from the unworthy and ungrateful, after he maintained the vigor of discipline by casting out the perverse, he soon showed the gift of grace. For it is added: "And he was teaching daily in the temple." We have run through these things briefly, treating them according to the historical sense. …

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 39 ↗

Bede

And he was teaching daily in the temple. We briefly run through these things according to history, now let us repeat the same to be discussed with moral understanding. Seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: Because if you also had known. This he did once when he announced that the city was destined to perish. This our Redeemer in no way ceases to do daily through his chosen ones, when he considers that some have gone from a good life to reprobate morals. …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

He shows that he possesses the promised magisterial authority through three things. And he was teaching daily etc. After he described how Christ showed by deed that he was king, high priest, and judge, here fourthly he describes how Christ showed himself to be a teacher. For the explanation of which three things are introduced: in Christ namely the assiduity of teaching, in the Pharisees however the assiduity of plotting evil, in the people truly the assiduity of learning. …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 19 ↗