Maximus the Confessor

Late Patristic · AD 500–800

29 passages across 7 books of the Bible · Who was this?

Commentary

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  1. Luke 8:16
    Or perhaps the Lord calls Himself a light shining to all who inhabit the house, that is, the world, since He is by nature God, but by the dispensation made flesh. And so like the light of the lamp He abides in the vessel of the flesh by means of the soul as the light in the vessel of the lamp by means of the flame. But by the candlestick he describes the Church over which the divine word shines, illuminating the house as it were by the rays of truth. But under the similitude of a vessel or bed he referred to the observance of the law, under which the word will not be contained.

  2. Luke 8:26
    Now the Lord ordains for each class of sinners an appropriate punishment. The fire of Hell unquenchable for fleshly burnings, gnashing of teeth for wanton mirth, intolerable thirst for pleasure and revelry, the worm that dies not for a crooked and malignant heart, everlasting darkness for ignorance and deceit, the bottomless pit for pride. Hence the deep is assigned to the devils as to the proud, it follows, And there was there an herd of swine

  3. Luke 8:26-39
    (Ep. ad Georgium.) Now the Lord ordains for each class of sinners an appropriate punishment. The fire of Hell unquenchable for fleshly burnings, gnashing of teeth for wanton mirth, intolerable thirst for pleasure and revelry, the worm that dieth not for a crooked and malignant heart, everlasting darkness for ignorance and deceit, the bottomless pit for pride. Hence the deep is assigned to the devils as unto the proud, it follows, And there was there an herd of swine, &c.

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

  4. Luke 10:5-12
    (Cap. Theol. 191.) Which it is said is come nigh, not to show the shortness of time, for the kingdom of God cometh not with observation, but to mark the disposition of men towards the kingdom of God, which is indeed potentially in all believers, but actually in those who reject the life of the body, and choose only the spiritual life; who are able to say, Now I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. (Gal. 2:20.)

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

  5. Luke 10:25
    To this end then the law commanded a threefold love to God, that it might pluck us away from the threefold fashion of the world, as touching possessions, glory, and pleasure, wherein also Christ was tempted.

  6. Luke 10:25-28
    To this end then the law commanded a threefold love to God, that it might pluck us away from the threefold fashion of the world, as touching possessions, glory, and pleasure, wherein also Christ was tempted.

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

  7. Luke 11:1-4
    (in Orat. Dom.) Or, the Lord commands us to pray, Lead us not into temptation, let us not have experience of lustful and self-induced temptations. But James teaches those who contend only for the truth, not to be unnerved by involuntary and troublesome temptations, saying, My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. (James 1:2.)

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

  8. Luke 12:35-40
    Or, he teaches us to keep our lamps burning, by prayer and contemplation and spiritual love.

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

  9. Luke 12:35
    Or, he teaches us to keep our lamps burning, by prayer and contemplation and spiritual love.

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