TRV
Hugh of Saint-Cher
Medieval · AD 800–1500 · 6 passages across 2 books
Commentary
Acts 1:1
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
that Jesus began to do and to teach: He has shown the pattern of the good teacher, who does what He teaches.
Acts 4:21
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
on account of the people, not on account of God.
Acts 8:5
Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
He was a deacon of the same rank.
Acts 9:25
Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
He does as a soldier does who, shut up in a narrow space, flees to mor open terrain in order to slay the more.
Revelation 5:1
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And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
book. can also be interpreted as the body of Christ which we consume everyday in the sacrament of the alter.
seven seals. The nativity from the womb, this was signified in the birth of Isaac in Gen 22, The passion was prefigured in the sacrifice of the lamb in Ex. 12 and the goat in Num 7. The resurrection was signified in Sampson who broke through the gates of Gaza in Judges 16. The ascension was signified in the passage in Lev. 1, where one live bird is left and flies away, and in Elijah being caught up in 2 Kgs 2. The sending of the Holy Spirit is in the figure of the fie descending from heaven in 1 Kgs 1. The coming for judgment is signified in Dan 7, and the books were opened.