Loading…
VRSZ
This sets the art on your cards and whose commentary you read on each verse. You can change it later in settings.
Translation
Loading…
What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Titus of Bostra
It seems indeed to me that this was a wise man. For he said not to the Saviour, "Do this or that," but, Look on my son, for this suffices for His salvation; as the prophet said, Look on me, and have mercy on me; and he says, on my son, to show that his was a reasonable forwardness in crying out aloud among the multitude. He adds, for he is mine only child. As if to say, There is none other I can expect to be the consolation of my old age. …
Western Saints
Bonaventure
Secondly, he introduces the urgency of the man beseeching, when he says: And behold, a man from the crowd cried out. In this he shows the affection in supplicating, according to that verse of the Psalm: "When I cried to the Lord, he heard my voice"; whence 1 Maccabees 5: "They cried out with trumpets to heaven and cried out in prayer"; and of Samuel it is said in 1 Kings 15 that "being grieved, he cried to the Lord the whole night." And that this was a cry of prayer is clear from what follows: Saying: Master, I beseech you, look upon …
Translation