Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsLuke 8
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Read Luke 8 in the BibleLuke 8:20
Thy brethren.
[1] These brethren of our Lord, were not the sons of the B. Virgin Marie the mother of God, as Helvidius wickedly taught: neither are they to be thought (as some others say) the sons of Joseph by another wife: for (as S. Hierom writeth [2] ) not only our Lady was a virgin, but by reason of her, Joseph also: that our Saviour might be born of a virginal matrimony. But they are called his brethren (according to the usual speech of the Scriptures) because they were his cousins, either the sons of Joseph's brother, or (as the more received opinion is [3] ) the sons of our Lady's sister called Mary of James, which James therefore is also called the brother of our Lord.
- 1 The Brethren of Christ.
- 2 Hiero. cont. Helvid. c. 9.
- 3 Ibidem c. 8.
Luke 8:55
Her spirit returned.
◦ This returning of the souls again into the bodies of them whom Christ and his Apostles raised from death (specially Lazarus who had been dead four days) doth evidently prove a third place against our adversaries, that say, every one goeth straight to Heaven or to Hell. For it cannot be thought that they were called from the one or the other, and therefore from some third place.
- ◦ A third place after this life.
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Luke 8:3
That did minister.
[1] It was the custom of the Jews that women of their substance did minister meat and drink and cloth to their teachers, going about with them. Which because it might have been scandalous among the gentiles, S. Paul [2] maketh mention that he used it not. And they ministered to our Lord of their substance for this cause, that he whose spiritual benefits they reaped, might reap their carnal things.