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Theophylact of Ohrid

Medieval · AD 800–1500

1,275 passages across 17 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On John

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  1. John 12:25
    It were harsh to say that a man should hate his soul; so He adds, in this world: i. e. for a particular time, not for ever. And we shall gain in the end by so doing: shall keep it unto life eternal.

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

  2. John 12:37
    He means the miracles related above. It was no small wickedness to disbelieve against such miracles as those.

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

  3. John 12:49-50
    Since the Son is the Word of the Father, and reveals completely what is in the mind of the Father, He says He receives a commandment what He should say, and what He should speak: just as our word, if we say what we think, brings out what is in our minds.
    And I know that His commandment is life everlasting.

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

  4. John 13:1-5
    Our Lord being about to depart out of this life, shows His great care for His disciples: Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.

    The Father having given up all things into His hands, i. e. having given up to Him the salvation of the faithful, He deemed it right to show them all things that pertained to their salvation; and gave them a lesson of humility, by washing His disciples' feet. Though knowing that He was from God, and went to God, He thought it in no way took from His glory, to wash His disciples' feet; thus proving that He did not usurp His greatness. For usurpers do not condescend, for fear of losing what they have irregularly got.

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

  5. John 13:6
    It is plain that our Lord did not wash Peter first, but none other of the disciples would have attempted to be washed before him.

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

  6. John 13:12-17
    This was a necessary admonition to the Apostles, some of whom were about to rise higher, others to lower degrees of eminence. That none might exult over another, He changes the hearts of all.

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

  7. John 14:2-3
    And if not, I would have told you: I go to prepare, &c. As if He said; Either way ye should not be troubled, whether places are prepared for you, or not. For, if they are not prepared, I will very quickly prepare them.

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

  8. John 14:6
    When thou art engaged in the practical, He is made thy way; when in the contemplative, He is made thy truth. And to the active and the contemplative is joined life: for we should both act and contemplate with reference to the world to come.

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

  9. John 14:13-14
    This is an explanation of the doctrine of miracles. It is by prayer, and invocation of His name, that a man is able to work miracles.

    Observe the order (akolouthian) in which the glorifying of the Father comes. In the name of Jesus miracles were done, by which men were made to believe the Apostles' preaching. This brought them to the knowledge of the Father, and thus the Father was glorified in the Son.

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

  10. John 14:19
    As if He said, Though I shall die, I shall rise again. And ye shall live also, i. e. when ye see Me risen again, ye will rejoice, and be as dead men brought to life again.

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

  11. John 14:21
    As if He said, Ye think that by sorrowing, as ye do, for my death ye prove your affection; but I esteem the keeping of My commandments the evidence of love. And then He shows the privileged state of one who loves: And he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him.

    Or, as after the resurrection He was to appear to them in a body more assimilated to His divinity, that they might not take Him then for a spirit, or a phantom, He tells them now beforehand not to have misgivings upon seeing Him, but to remember that He shows Himself to them as a reward for their keeping His commandments; and that therefore they are bound ever to keep them, that they may ever enjoy the sight of Him.

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

  12. John 14:26
    The Holy Spirit then was both to teach and to bring to remembrance: to teach what Christ had forborne to tell His disciples, because they were not able to bear it; to bring to remembrance what Christ had told them, but which on account of its difficulty, or their slowness of understanding, they were unable to remember.

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

  13. John 15:8
    The fruit of the Apostles are the Gentiles, who through their teaching were converted to the faith, and brought into subjection to the glory of God.

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

  14. John 15:12
    Having said, If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love, He shows what commandments they are to keep: This is My commandment, That ye love one another.

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

  15. John 15:15
    As if He said, The servant knoweth not the counsels of his lord; but since I esteem you friends, I have communicated my secrets to you.

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

  16. John 15:20
    Or thus: If, Me says, they have persecuted your Lord, much more will they persecute you; if they had persecuted Him, but kept His commandments, they would keep yours also.

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

  17. John 15:26
    Elsewhere He says that the Father sends the Spirit; now He says He does: Whom I will send unto you; thus declaring the equality of the Father and the Son. That He might not be thought however to be opposed to the Father, and to be another and rival source, as it were, of the Spirit, He adds, From the Father; i. e. the Father agreeing, and taking an equal part in sending Him. When it is said that He proceedeth, do not understand His procession to be an external mission, such as is given to ministering spirits, but a certain peculiar, and distinct procession, such as is true of the Holy Spirit alone. To proceed is not the same as being sent, but is the essential nature of the Holy Ghost, as coming from the Father.

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

  18. John 16:12
    Our Lord having said above, It is expedient for you that I go away, He enlarges now upon it: I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

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

  19. John 16:24
    For when your prayers shall be fully answered, then will your gladness be greatest.

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

  20. John 16:26-27
    He still cheers them with the promise that help will be given them from above in their temptations: At that day ye shall ask in My Name. And ye will be so in favour with the Father, that ye will no longer need my intervention: And I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you, for the Father Himself loveth you. But that they might not start back from our Lord, as though they were no longer in need of Him, He adds, Because ye have loved Me: as if to say, The Father loves you, because ye have loved Me; when therefore ye fall from My love, ye will straightway fall from the Fathers love.

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

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