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He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! See also: Matthew 18:7Romans 14:131 Corinthians 11:19It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. See also: Mark 9:42Matthew 18:14Matthew 18:3-6Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. See also: Leviticus 19:17Matthew 18:15-17Matthew 18:21If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.” See also: Colossians 3:12-13Matthew 18:21-22Romans 12:20The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” See also: Mark 9:24Hebrews 12:2Philippians 4:13The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. See also: Matthew 17:20Matthew 21:21Mark 9:23But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table’? Wouldn’t he rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’? See also: Luke 12:37Genesis 43:16Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’” See also: 1 Corinthians 9:16-17Job 22:2-31 Peter 5:5-6As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. See also: Luke 9:51-52John 4:3-4As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. See also: Leviticus 13:45-46Luke 5:122 Kings 7:3They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” See also: Matthew 9:27Matthew 15:22Matthew 20:30-31When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed. See also: Leviticus 13:1-46Luke 5:142 Kings 5:14One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. See also: Psalms 30:11-12Psalms 103:1-4Isaiah 38:19-22He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. See also: Acts 8:5-25Matthew 10:5Revelation 19:10Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? See also: Romans 1:21Psalms 106:13Genesis 3:9Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?” See also: Psalms 50:23Matthew 15:24-28Psalms 106:13Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.” See also: Mark 5:34Mark 10:52Matthew 9:22Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation; See also: John 18:36Luke 16:16Luke 19:11neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.” See also: Matthew 12:28Romans 14:17Mark 13:21He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. See also: Matthew 9:15Luke 5:35John 8:21-24They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them, See also: Luke 21:8Matthew 24:23-26Luke 17:21for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky, so will the Son of Man be in his day. See also: Matthew 24:27Malachi 4:1-2Matthew 24:30But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. See also: Matthew 16:21Luke 9:22Mark 8:31As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. See also: Matthew 24:37-39Luke 17:24Genesis 7:7-23They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all. See also: Luke 12:19-201 Thessalonians 5:1-3Luke 16:19-23Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; See also: Ezekiel 16:49-50Genesis 18:20-21James 5:1-5but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all. See also: Revelation 11:8Jude 1:7Zephaniah 2:9It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. See also: 2 Thessalonians 1:7Revelation 1:71 Corinthians 1:7In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. See also: Matthew 16:26Jeremiah 45:5Mark 13:14-16Remember Lot’s wife! See also: Genesis 19:26Hebrews 10:38-392 Peter 2:18-22Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. See also: Mark 8:35-37Matthew 10:39John 12:25I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left. See also: Matthew 24:40-412 Peter 2:9Malachi 3:16-18There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.” See also: Matthew 24:41Exodus 11:5Judges 16:21They, answering, asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the vultures will also be gathered together.” See also: Matthew 24:28Job 39:29-30Zechariah 13:8-9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)17 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Luke 17:1
Ver. 1. The world being corrupted as it is, and the spread of evil so wide, it is impossible that scandals should not come. V. — It is impossible, morally speaking, with regard to the malice of men. Wi.
↑ 1Luke 17:2
Ver. 2. It were better. Christ here speaks after the manner of the Jews, who were accustomed to inflict this punishment only on the greatest malefactors.
So that we must be ready to undergo the most excruciating torments, rather than cause any scandal to our neighbour; though we must here observe, that if our neighbour take scandal at our good works, we ought not on that account to desist from doing good, or desert the truth. Ven. Bede. — S. Luke, in this chapter, inserts four instructions, which have no connection with each other, and which by the writers of evangelical harmony, are given in different places; as in Matt. xviii. after v. 14, &c.
↑ 2Luke 17:5
Ver. 5. Increase our faith. The disciples having heard our Saviour inculcating maxims hard to flesh and blood, such as avoiding scandal, and forgiving our enemies, humbly beg their faith may be increased, that they may be able to comply with these maxims; for they had heard Christ say, that every thing was possible to him that believed. Theophy. — Christ compares faith to a grain of mustard seed; because, though the grain be small, it is nevertheless stronger than most herbs. S. Chrysos.
↑ 5Luke 17:6
Ver. 6. To this mulberry-tree. In S. Matthew, (xvii. 19.) we read, to this mountain.
Christ might say both at different times. Wi.
↑ 6Luke 17:7
Ver. 7. The design and end of this parable is to shew that, rigorously speaking, we are useless servants with regard to God. This sovereign Master has a right to exact of us every kind of service, and to make us apply ourselves to any task he may think proper, without our having any reason to complain either of the difficulty, trouble, or length of our labours; we are entirely his, and he is master of our persons, time, and talents. We hold of him whatever we possess, and wo to us if we abuse his trust, by applying our talents to any use contrary to his designs. But though he be Lord and Master, he leaves our liberty entire.
If he produces in us holy desires, if he works in us meritorious actions, gives us virtuous inclinations and supernatural gifts, he sets to our account the good use we make of them; and in crowning our merits, he crowns his own gifts. S. Aug. lib. ix. Confes. and Serm. 131. Calmet.
↑ 7Luke 17:10
Ver. 10. Unprofitable servants. Because our service is of no profit to our Master; and he justly claims it as our bounden duty. But though we are unprofitable to him, our serving him is not unprofitable to us; for he is pleased to give, by his grace, a value to our good works, which, in consequence of his promise, entitles them to an eternal reward. Ch. — The word useless, when joined to servant, generally means a servant from whom his master does not derive the service he has a right to expect; as in S. Matt. xxv. 30. Here the word is taken in a less odious sense. It means a servant who does not testify sufficient zeal and ardour in his master's service, who is not very eager to please him. With regard to God, we are always useless servants, because he wants not our services; and without his assistance, we can neither undertake nor finish any thing to please him. Calmet.
↑ 10Luke 17:14
Ver. 14. To the priests. Jesus sends them to the priests, to convince the latter of the reality of the cures which he wrought, and oblige them by that to acknowledge him for their Messias; 2ndly, that the lepers might enjoy the fruit of their cure, by returning to the society of their fellow men, after they had been declared clean, and satisfied all the demands of the law; for there were may ceremonies previous to be gone through. Calmet. — And lastly, to shew that in the new law, such as are defiled with the leprosy of sin, should apply to the priests. Hence, says S. Austin, let no one despise God's ordinance, saying that it is sufficient to confess to God alone. Lib. de visit. infirm.
↑ 14Luke 17:19
Ver. 19. Thy faith hath made thee whole. Were not the others also made whole?
They were cleansed indeed from their leprosy, but it no where appears that they were justified in their souls like this Samaritan, of whom it said, thy faith hath made thee whole; whereas it was said of the others, that they were made clean, viz. of their leprosy in their body, though not justified in their soul: this the Samaritan alone seems to have obtained. Maldonatus.
↑ 19Luke 17:20
Ver. 20. When the kingdom of God should come? or when is it to come? when will the Messias come? The Pharisees might say this in a mocking and an insulting manner, to signify that he could not be their true Messias. — The kingdom of God cometh not with observation; that it, so as to be observed; not with great marks of temporal power, as you imagine. Wi. — The Pharisees expected a Messias powerful according to this world, a conqueror, a monarch, a revenger of the injuries of Israel; one who would restore them to liberty, and bless them with temporal goods and prosperity. In Jesus, they saw nothing, which corresponded to these magnificent hopes; and therefore asked him, by way of insult and reproach, when this kingdom of God would come, which he so often talked of and announced to his disciples. He answers them, that the manifestation of the Messias, and the establishment of his kingdom, shall not be effected in a conspicuous, splendid manner. It shall be brought about insensibly, and the accomplishment of the designs of the omnipotence of our Lord shall appear a casualty, and the effect of secondary causes. You shall not see the Messias coming at the head of armies, to spread terror and desolation.
His arrival shall not be announced by ambassadors, &c. every thing in the establishment of my kingdom shall be the reverse of temporal power. Calmet.
↑ 20Luke 17:21
Ver. 21. Is within you. It is with you; your Messias is already come. — He standeth in the midst of you, as John the Baptist told you. John i. 26. Wi.
↑ 21Luke 17:22
Ver. 22. To see one day, &c. Hereafter, when I shall be no longer visibly among you, you shall heartily wish for one day's conversation with me. Wi. — This verse is addressed to the disciples. He insinuates that he will take from them this corporeal presence, and they shall be exposed to persecution and affliction: then they shall wish to see one day of the Son of man, and shall not be able to obtain it. They shall wish ardently to see him, to entertain themselves with him, and consult him, but shall not have that happiness. This was meant to excite the disciples to profit more of his presence whilst they enjoyed it. Calmet.
↑ 22Luke 17:24
Ver. 24. For as the lightning, &c. See Matt. xxiv. 27. Wi. — Christ here alludes to the glory with which he shall appear when he shall come to judge the world, surrounded by his angels, &c. when he will appear like lightning, that shall penetrate the inmost recesses of our souls, and shall suffer no crime, not even the slightest thought of our souls, to pass unnoticed. This is the time when he will manifest his glory, and not on his entry into Jerusalem, as the disciples imagined: for he informs them, that he will then have to suffer a cruel death.
Ven. Bede.
↑ 24Luke 17:27
Ver. 27. After having compared his second coming to lightning, in order to shew how sudden it will be, he next compares it to the days of Noe and Lot, to shew that it will come when men least expect it; when, entirely forgetting his coming, they are solely occupied in the affairs of this world, in buying and selling, &c. He only mentions those faults which appear trivial, or rather none at all, (passing over the crimes of murder, theft, &c.) purposely to shew, that if God thus punishes merely the immoderate use of what is lawful, how will his vengeance fall upon what is in itself unlawful. Ven. Bede.
↑ 27Luke 17:31
Ver. 31. When you see war lighted up in Judea, lose no time, but betake yourselves to flight for safety. Indeed the Christians, forewarned by these predictions, and other prophecies of the apostles, according to Lactantius, (lib. iv. c. 21.) fled from the danger beyond the Jordan, into the states of Herod, to Pella and the neighbouring villages. See Eusebius. Eccles. Hist. lib. iii. c. 5.
↑ 31Luke 17:32
Ver. 32. As Lot only escaped destruction by leaving all things, and flying immediately to the mountain, whereas his wife, by shewing an affection for the things she had left, and looking back, perished; so those who, in the time of tribulation, forgetting the reward that awaits them in heaven, look back to the pleasures of this world, which the wicked enjoy, are sure to perish. S.
Ambrose. — Ta opiso epilanthanesthai, tois de emprosthen epekteinesthai.
Philip. iii. 13.
↑ 32Luke 17:34
Ver. 34. By these different examples, Christ wishes to insinuate that good and bad men will be found in every state of life. By those in bed, are understood the rich, by those in the mill, are understood the poor; whilst those in the field designate the pastors of his flock, who are labouring in the vineyard of the Lord. S. Cyril and S. Amb.
↑ 34Luke 17:37
Ver. 37. To the question of his disciples in the preceding verse, our blessed Saviour only returns this enigmatical answer, which seems to mean, that where-ever there are guilty Jews, there shall their enemies pursue them and find them out, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Judea, Galilee, &c.
every where the vengeance of the Lord shall follow them, and overtake them.
For the interpretation of other parts of this chapter, see S. Matt. c. xxiv. Calmet.
— If we observe some discrepancies between the precise words of our Lord, as given by S. Matt. and S. Luke, as in S. Matt. c. xxiv. v. 40, and in Luke xvii.
34, and alibi passim, we can reconcile those apparent variations, by supposing that our Lord, in the course of his conversation, made use of both expressions. A.
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↑ 37License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses