_Let every soul, or every one, be subject, &c.[1] The Jews were apt to think themselves not subject to temporal princes, as to taxes, &c. and lest Christians should misconstrue their Christian liberty, he here teacheth them that every one (even priests and bishops, says St. John Chrysostom) must be... [ Continue Reading ]
_But that you love one another. This is a debt, says St. John Chrysostom, which we are always to be paying, and yet always remains, and is to be paid again. --- He that loveth his neighbour, hath fulfilled the law. Nay, he that loves his neighbour, as he ought, loves him for God's sake, and so compl... [ Continue Reading ]
_Love of the neighbour worketh no evil. [2] This, by the Latin, is the true construction; and not, love worketh no evil to the neighbour, as it might be translated from the Greek. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Dilectio proximi malum non operatur, i.e. dilectio non operatur malum proximi, vel proximo, _... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. Some will have the sense to be, that our salvation is now nearer, when the gospel is preached, and Christ offers us his graces, than when we believed the Messias was to come. Others expound it, that the more our life is spent, we come nearer to the... [ Continue Reading ]
_The night is passed. That is, the night of sin and infidelity, in which you lived, before you began to serve Christ. (Witham) --- St. Paul is here addressing himself to Gentile converts. Before your conversion, you were in the darkness of infidelity: this time is past; now is the day, when the gosp... [ Continue Reading ]
_ Let us walk honestly as in the day. As men are accustomed to do in the light, without being afraid that their works come to light. --- Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering, [3] not in beds and impurities, not in immodest disorders. (Witham) --- The night of the present life full of da... [ Continue Reading ]
_But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. To put on, is a metaphor used in the Scripture; as when it is said, put on the new man, &c. And make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscenses. That is, do not take care, nor pamper and indulge you appetite in eating and drinking, so as to increase your... [ Continue Reading ]