To-day, etc.] (peculiar to Lk). 'The grace granted is more abundant than the prayer. For his prayer was that the Lord would be mindful of him when He should have come into His kingdom. But the Lord said unto him, “Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise” Where Christ is there is life, there is the Kingdom '(St. Ambrose). On 'Paradise' see Luke 16:22; Luke 16:23. This incident teaches us not to despise even deathbed repentances.

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