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What the Fathers say

Luke 20:43

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

We must believe then that Christ is both God and man, and that His enemies are made subject to Him by the Father, not through the weakness of His power, but through the unity of their nature, since in the one the other works. For the Son also subjects enemies to the Father, in that He glorifies the Father upon earth. (John 17:6.)

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Bonaventure

He expresses nonetheless the universal dominion of the Son of God himself, when he adds: Until I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet: The Psalm: "Thou hast subjected all things under his feet," etc., because by his almighty power he both governs the good and tramples the wicked. …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 20 ↗