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What the Fathers say

Luke 20:42

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

He manifests then that He is not opposed to the Father, but agrees with Him, since the Father resists the Son's enemies, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

By the sitting we must not conceive a posture of the human limbs, as if the Father sat on the left and the Son on: the right, but the right hand itself we must interpret to be the power which that Man received who was taken up into Himself by God, that He should come to judge, who at first came to be judged.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Bede

He said to them: How do they say that Christ is the son of David, and David himself says in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool? David therefore calls him Lord, and how is he his son? The question of Jesus profits us even today against the Jews. For those who confess that Christ is to come assert that he is a simple man and a holy man of the lineage of David. …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

Second, as to the eternal generation foretold by the Prophet, he adds: And David himself says in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand. Without doubt David says this word for word in the Psalm, which treats most excellently and most profoundly of the two natures of Christ. For it is established that this is understood of Christ. For God gave to no one the supreme kingdom, the eternal priesthood, and the judgment of all things except to Christ; and all this is described in that Psalm. …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 20 ↗