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What the Fathers say

Luke 12:14

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Alexandria

Now the Son of God, when He was made like unto us, was appointed by God the Father to be King and Prince upon his holy Mount of Sion, to make known the Divine command.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

Well then does He avoid earthly things who had descended for the sake of divine things, and deigns not to be a judge of strifes and arbiter of laws, having the judgment of the quick and dead and the recompensing of works. You should consider then, not what you seek, but from whom you ask it; and you should not eagerly suppose that the greater are to be disturbed by the less. …

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Bonaventure

And since, as Bede says in the Gloss, "Christ is not the God of dissension, but of peace and unity," therefore he refutes the aforesaid petition, when he adds: But he said to him, namely Jesus: Man, who appointed me a judge or a divider over you? …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 12 ↗