Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsLuke 10
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Read Luke 10 in the BibleLuke 10:28
This do.
Not by faith only, but by keeping God's commandments we obtain life everlasting: not only by believing, but by doing. ◦ The heretics say that it is impossible to keep this commandment of loving God with all our heart. But the Scriptures give us examples of diverse that have kept and fulfilled it, as far as is requisite in this life. 3. Reg. 14, 8. 2. Par. 15, 15. Ps. 118, 10. Ecclci. 47, 9. 10. 4 Reg. 20, 3. 5. Luc. 1, 5. And if it were impossible to keep it, and yet by Christ proposed for the mean to obtain life everlasting, he had mocked this Lawyer and others, and not taught them.
- ◦ The commandments possible to be kept.
Luke 10:30
Half dead.
[1] [2] Here is signified man wounded very sore in his understanding and free-will, and all other powers of soul and body, by the sin of Adam: but yet that neither understanding, nor free-will, nor the rest, were extinguished in man or taken away. The Priest and Levite, signify the Law of Moyses: this Samaritane, is Christ the priest of the new Testament: the oil and wine, his Sacraments: the host, the priests his minsters. Whereby is signified, that the Law could not recover the spiritual life of mankind from the death of sin, that is, justify man: but Christ only, who by his passion and the grace and virtue thereof ministered in and by his Sacraments, justifieth, and increaseth the justice of man, healing and abling free-will to do all good works.
- 1 The parable of the wounded man, explicated.
- 2 Conc. Araus. 2. cap. 25. to. 1. Conc. Conc. Trid. Sess. 6. c. 1.
Luke 10:42
Mary the best part.
[1] Two notable examples, one of the life Active, in Martha: the other of the life Contemplative, in Marie: representing unto us, that in holy Church there should be always some to serve God in both these several sorts. The life contemplative is here preferred before the active. The Religious of both sexes are of that more excellent state. And therefore our Protestants have wholly abandoned them out of their common-wealth, which the true Church never wanted. But to say truth, they have neither Martha nor Mary. Our Lord give them grace to see their misery. If ours were not answerable to their profession, or were degenerated, why have they no new ones? If our Church's Votaries vowed unlawful things, Chastity, Poverty, Obedience, Pilgrimage: what other Votaries or lawful vows have they? For, to offer voluntarily by vow (besides the keeping of God's commandments, whereunto we are bound by precept and promise in our Baptism) our souls, bodies, goods, or any other acceptable thing to God, is an act of sovereign worship belonging to God only: and there was never true religion without such vows and Votaries [2]. If there be none in their whole Church that profess contemplation, or that vow any thing at all to God voluntarily, neither in their bodies nor in their goods: God and the world know they have no Church nor religion at all.
- 1 The Contemplative or Religious life, better than the Active and secular.
- 2 Vows and votaries.
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Luke 10:21
To little ones.
By this place every vulgar artificer may not presume that God hath revealed all truth to him, and therefore refuse to be taught of the learned. For Christ did not afterward endue fishers and vulgar men nor any other with the gifts of wisdom and tongues, without their industry, study, and teaching, though at the beginning, of great providence he did it, that it might be clear to the world, that all nations were converted to him, not by persuasion of cunning Orators or subtile Disputers, but by the plain force of his grace and truth, which S. Augustine counteth greater than all other miracles. ◦ Further we are taught by this place, that the poor humble obedient children of the Church know by their faith the high mysteries of Christ's Divinity, and his presence in the B. Sacrament, and such like, rather than Arius, Calvin, and other like proud Scribes and Pharisees.