Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsMatthew 28
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Matthew 28 in the BibleMatthew 28:19
Going therefore.
◦ Commission to baptize and preach to all Nations given to the Apostles, and grounded upon Christ's sovereign authority, to whom was given all power in heaven and in earth.
- ◦ a. The Catholic Church to be gathered of all Nations.
Matthew 28:20
With you all days.
◦ Here Christ doth promise his concurrence with his Apostles and their successors, as well in preaching as ministering the Sacraments, and his protection of the Church never to cease till the world's end: contrary to our Adversaries, saying that the Church hath failed many hundred years till Luther and Calvin.
- ◦ b. Christ's continual protection of the same Church.
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Matthew 28:1
To see the Sepulcher.
[1] The devout women came to visit our Saviour's sepulcher, and for their devotion first deserved to know the Resurrection, and to see him risen. The honour of the which Sepulcher and the Pilgrimage thereunto in the Primitive Church, S. Hierom [2] declareth in these words, The Jews sometime honoured Sancta Sanctorum, because there were the Cherubs, and Propitiatory, and the Ark of the Testament, Manna, Aaron's rod, and the golden altar. Doth not the Sepulcher of our Lord seem unto thee more honourable? Which as often as we enter into, so often do we see our Saviour lie in the sindon: and staying there a while, we see the Angel again sit at his feet, and at his head the napkin wrapped together. The glory of whose Sepulcher, we know was long prophesied [3] before Joseph hewed it out, by Esay saying, And his rest shall be honour: to wit, because the place of our Lord's burial should be honoured of all men. And at this present, notwithstanding the Turks' dominion, yet do the Religious Christian Catholic men by God's mighty providence keep the holy Sepulcher, which is within a goodly Church, and Christians come out of all the world in Pilgrimage to it.