Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsLuke 9
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Read Luke 9 in the BibleLuke 9:53
Face to go to Hierusalem.
[1] [2] The Samaritans were Schismatics from the Jews, and had a Schismatical temple in mount Garizim, of purpose to draw men thither from God's temple in Hierusalem, where only was the true and as it were the Catholic service and Sacrifice unto God. Therefore they did not gladly receive our Saviour, because they perceived he was going to Hierusalem.
Luke 9:55
He rebuked them.
[1] Not justice nor all rigorous punishment of sinners is here forbidden, nor Elias' fact reprehended, nor the Church or Christian Princes blamed for putting Heretics to death: but that none of these should be done for desire of our particular revenge, or without discretion, & regard of their amendment, and example to others. [2] Therefore S. Peter [3] used his power upon Ananias and Sapphira, when he strook them both down to death for defrauding the Church.
- 1 Desire of revenge.
- 2 The Church's severity.
- 3 Act. 5.
Luke 9:62
No man looking back.
◦ It is a dangerous temptation for a man that hath lost or left his goods for Christ, to look much back at them, and to remember with delight the pleasures and eases of this world, for it breedeth in him discontentment of the troubles and crosses that are incident to the state of such as fully follow Christ. In which case a man should ever look forward towards heaven, and never backward to the world.
- ◦ Looking back.
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Luke 9:27
Till they see.
◦ To the Apostles, that had to preach the kingdom of God and to suffer so much misery for the same in this world, he will shew his glory, and give them a taste of his own joyful state and of his Saints in heaven, calling thither Moyses and Elias, that the Law and prophets might be witnesses of the same. See the annotation upon S. Matthew c. 17, 2.