Alcuin of York

Medieval · AD 800–1500

361 passages across 3 books of the Bible · Who was this?

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  1. John 2:6
    Vessels to hold water were there, after the manner of the purifying of Jews. Among other traditions of the Pharisees, they observed frequent washings.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  2. John 2:9
    The Triclinium is a circle of three couches, cline signifying couch: the ancients used to recline upon couches. And the Architriclinus is the one at the head of the Triclinium, i. e. the chief of the guests. Some say that among the Jews, He was a priest, and attended the marriage in order to instruct in the duties of the married state.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  3. John 2:11
    He was the King of glory, and changed the elements because He was their Lord.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  4. John 2:12
    Our Lord's brethren are the relations of Mary and Joseph, not the sons of Mary and Joseph. For not only the blessed Virgin, but Joseph also, the witness of her chastity, abstained from all conjugal intercourse.

    Or Capernaum, we may interpret "a most beautiful village," and so it signifies the world, to which the Word of the Father came down.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  5. John 2:13
    And He went up to Jerusalem. The Gospels mention two journeys of our Lord to Jerusalem, one in the first year of His preaching, before John was sent to prison, which is the journey now spoken of; the other in the year of His Passion. Our Lord has set us here an example of careful obedience to the Divine commands. For if the Son of God fulfilled the injunctions of His own law, by keeping the festivals, like the rest, with what holy zeal should we servants prepare for and celebrate them?

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  6. John 2:17
    Zeal, taken in a good sense, is a certain fervour of the Spirit, by which the mind, all human fears forgotten, is stirred up to the defence of the truth.

    To take the passage mystically, God enters His Church spiritually every day, and marks each one's behaviour there. Let us be careful then, when we are in God's Church, that we indulge not in stories, or jokes, or hatreds, or lusts, lest on a sudden He come and scourge us, and drive us out of His Church.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  7. John 2:20
    Note, that they allude here not to the first temple under Solomon, which was finished in seven years, but to the one rebuilt under Zorobabel. (Ezra 4:5) This was forty-six years building, in consequence of the hindrance raised by the enemies of the work.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  8. John 2:22
    For before the resurrection they did not understand the Scriptures, because they had not yet received the Holy Ghost, Who was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:39) But on the day of the resurrection our Lord appeared and opened their meaning to His disciples; that they might understand what was said of Him in the Law and the Prophets. And then they believed the prediction of the Prophets that Christ would rise the third day, and the word which Jesus had spoken to them: Destroy this temple, &c.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  9. John 3:8
    Therefore, Thou knowest not whence it cometh, or whither it goeth; for, although the Spirit should possess a person in thy presence at a particular time, it could not be seen how He entered into him, or how He went away again, because He is invisible.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  10. John 3:11
    Or, the plural number may have this meaning; I, and they who are born again of the Spirit, alone understand what we speak; and having seen the Father in secret, this we testify openly to the world; and ye, who are carnal and proud, receive not our testimony.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  11. John 3:16-17
    Truly through the Son of God shall the world have life; for for no other cause came He into the world, except to save the world. God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  12. John 3:18
    He who believes on Him, and cleaves to Him as a member to the head, will not be condemned.

    He then gives the reason why he who believeth not is condemned, viz. because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. For in this name alone is there salvation. God hath not many sons who can save; He by whom He saves is the Only Begotten.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  13. John 3:19
    Here is the reason why men believed not, and why they are justly condemned; This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  14. John 3:20
    Every one that doeth evil, hateth the light; i. e. he who is resolved to sin, who delights in sin, hateth the light, which detects his sin.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  15. John 3:22
    By Judaea are meant those who confess, whom Christ visits; for wherever there is confession of sins, or the praise of God, thither cometh Christ and His disciples, i. e. His doctrine and enlightenment; and there He is known by His cleansing men from sin: And there He tarried with them, and baptized.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  16. John 3:26
    Meaning, Passing by thee, all men run to the baptism of Him Whom thou baptizedst.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  17. John 3:31
    Or, cometh from above; i. e. from the height of that human nature which was before the sin of the first man. For it was that human nature which the Word of God assumed: He did not take upon Him man's sin, as He did his punishment.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  18. John 3:32
    He that is of the earth is of the earth; i. e. is earthly, and speaketh of the earth, speaketh earthly things.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  19. John 3:33
    Or, Hath put to his seal, i. e. hath put a seal on his heart, for a singular and special token, that this is the true God, Who suffered for the salvation of mankind.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

  20. John 3:36
    And because all things are in His hand, the life everlasting is too: and therefore it follows, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.

    (as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274) Catena Aurea by Aquinas

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