Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsLuke 2
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Read Luke 2 in the BibleLuke 2:19
Kept all.
◦ Our Lady though little be spoken of her concerning such matters in the Scriptures, because she was a woman, and not admitted to teach or dispute in public of high mysteries; yet she knew all these mysteries, and wisely noted and contemplated of all those things that were done and said about Christ, from the first hour of his Conception till the end of his life and his Ascension.
- ◦ Our B. Lady full of deep contemplations.
Luke 2:34
To the ruin.
Therefore to the ruin of some, because they would not believe in him, and so were the cause of their own ruin, as he is elsewhere called, A stumbling stone [1], because many would stumble at him and so fall [2] by their own fault, other some he raised by his grace from sin to justice, and so he was the resurrection of many. The Apostle useth the like speech, saying: We are to some the odour of life, unto life: to others, the odour of death, unto death [3]. Not that their preaching was to cause death, but because they that would not believe their preaching, willfully incurred deadly sin and damnation.
Luke 2:37
A widow.
[1] Mark that widowhood is here mentioned to the commendation thereof even in the old Testament also, and the fruit, and as it were the profession thereof, is here commended, to wit, fasting, praying, being continually in the Temple, even as S. Paul [2] more at large for the state of the new Testament speaketh of widowhood and virginity, as being professions more apt and commodious for the service of God.
By fastings and prayers serving.
◦ Serving, in the Greek is λατρεύουσα, that is, doing divine worship unto God, as by prayer, so also by fasting: so that fasting is λατρεία, that is, an act of religion whereby we do worship God, as we do by prayer, and not used only to subdue our flesh, much less (as Heretics would have it) as a matter of policy.
- ◦ Fasting and act of religion.
Luke 2:51
Subject to them.
◦ All children may learn hereby, that great ought to be their subjection and obedience to their Parents, when Christ himself, being God, would be subject to his parents being but his creatures.
- ◦ Dutiful obedience to parents.
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Luke 2:14
Men of good will.
◦ The birth of Christ giveth not peace of mind or salvation but to such as be of good will, because he worketh not our good against our wills, but our wills concurring, Aug. quæst. ad Simplic. li. 1. q. 2. to 4.