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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Lord snatches the strongest vessels from the devil and destroys his cities. For see how He not only made tax collectors His disciples, but also captures the chief among the tax collectors, Zacchaeus, unto salvation. And that a tax collector is a lowly creature, and the chief among the tax collectors, as one presiding over wickedness, is even more abominable — of this no one has any doubt. For tax collectors acquire their means of living in no other way than from the tears of the poor. …
Irenaeus
And they teach that He pointed out the three kinds of men as follows: the material, when He said to him that asked Him, "Shall I follow Thee?" "The Son of man hath not where to lay His head;"-the animal, when He said to him that declared, "I will follow Thee, but suffer me first to bid them farewell that are in my house," "No man, putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven" (for this man they declare to be of the intermediate class, even as they do that other who, though he professed to have …
Titus of Bostra
Now Zacchæus desired no more than to see, but He who is able to do more than we ask for, granted to Him far above what he expected; as it follows, And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him. He saw the soul of the man striving earnestly to live a holy life, and converts him to godliness.
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
Uninvited he invites Himself to his house; as it follows, Zacchæus, make haste, and come down, & c. for He knew how richly He would reward his hospitality. And though He had not yet heard the word of invitation, He had already seen the will.
Bede
And he says to him: "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." And he hurried and came down, and received him joyfully. The Lord sometimes stayed in the house of the chief of the Pharisees, that is, he taught in the synagogue of the Jews; but because they reproached him with a venomous tongue for healing on the Sabbath without being baptized before the meal, for receiving publicans and sinners, for arguing against avarice, and for performing other deeds worthy of God, weary of their crimes, he departed and …
Bonaventure
And when he had come etc. After he expressed the eagerness of Zacchaeus to see Christ, here secondly he expresses the hospitality toward receiving Christ. In describing this, three things are introduced, namely the condescension on the part of Christ, the devotion on the part of Zacchaeus, and the murmuring on the part of the perverse people. …
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