St Luke Chapter V : Verses 12-16
Contents
- Luke v. 12-16. Douay-Rheims (Challoner) text & Latin text (Vulgate).
- Annotations (from the Catena Aurea)
- Douay-Rheims 1582 text
Luke v. 12-16.
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| Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. J-J Tissot. Brooklyn Museum. |
Et factum est, cum esset in una civitatum, et ecce vir plenus lepra, et videns Jesum, et procidens in faciem, rogavit eum, dicens : Domine, si vis, potes me mundare.
13 And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
Et extendens manum, tetigit eum dicens : Volo : mundare. Et confestim lepra discessit ab illo.
14 And he charged him that he should tell no man, but, Go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
Et ipse præcepit illi ut nemini diceret : sed, Vade, ostende te sacerdoti, et offer pro emundatione tua, sicut præcepit Moyses, in testimonium illis.
15 But the fame of him went abroad the more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
Perambulabat autem magis sermo de illo : et conveniebant turbæ multæ ut audirent, et curarentur ab infirmitatibus suis.
16 And he retired into the desert, and prayed.
Ipse autem secedebat in desertum, et orabat.
Annotations
[Ed. Taken from the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas]
12. And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, etc. Rightly no definite place is mentioned where the leprous man was healed, to signify that not one people of any particular city, but all nations were healed. The fourth miracle after Jesus came to Capernaum was the healing of a leprous man. But since He illumined the fourth day with the sun, and made it more glorious than the rest, we ought to think this work more glorious than those that went before. AMBROSE.
Lord, if thou wilt. Now the leper worshipped the Lord God in His bodily form, and thought not the Word of God to be a creature because of His flesh, nor because He was the Word did he think lightly of the flesh which He put on...
and falling on his face, besought him, ... nay rather in a created temple he adored the Creator of all things, falling down on his face, as it follows, And when he saw Jesus he fell on his face, and besought him. ATHANASIUS. (Ep. ad Adelph. 3.)
In falling on his face he marked his humility and modesty, for every one should blush at the stains of his life, but his reverence kept not back his confession, he shews his wound, and asks for a remedy, saying, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Of the will of the Lord he doubted, not from distrust of His mercy, but checked by the consciousness of his own unworthiness. But the confession is one full of devotion and faith, placing all power in the will of the Lord. AMBROSE.
For he knew that leprosy yields not to the skill of physicians, but he saw the devils cast out by the Divine authority, and multitudes cured of divers diseases, all which he conceived was the work of the Divine arm. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA.
Let us learn from the words of the leper not to go about seeking the cure of our bodily infirmities, but to commit the whole to the will of God, Who knows what is best for us, and disposes all things as He will. TITUS BOSTRENSIS.
13. And stretching forth his hand, he touched him. He heals in the same manner in which He had been entreated to heal, as it follows, And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him. The law forbids to touch the leprous man, but He who is the Lord of the law submits not to the law, but makes the law; He did not touch because without touching He was unable to make him clean, but to shew that he was neither subject to the law, nor feared the contagion as man; for He could not be contaminated Who delivered others from the pollution. On the other hand, He touched also, that the leprosy might be expelled by the touch of the Lord, which was wont to contaminate him that touched. AMBROSE.
I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. In the words which follow, I will, be thou clean, you have the will, you have also the result of His mercy. AMBROSE.
And because the Deity is united with each portion of man, i.e. both soul and body, in each are evident the signs of a heavenly nature. For the body declared the Deity hidden in it, when by touching it afforded a remedy, but the soul, by the mighty power of its will, marked the Divine strength. For as the sense of touch is the property of the body, so the motion of the will of the soul. The soul wills, the body touches. GREGORY OF NYSSA. (Orat. 1. in Resur. Christ.)
14. And he charged him that he should tell no man, that in truth he might teach us that our good deeds are not to be made public, but to be rather concealed, that we should abstain not only from gaining money, but even favour. Or perhaps the cause of His commanding silence was that He thought those to be preferred, who had rather believed of their own accord than from the hope of benefit. AMBROSE.
but, Go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. And since frequently men, when they are sick, remember God, but when they recover, wax dull, He bids him to always keep God before his eyes, giving glory to God. Hence it follows ... that the leprous man being cleansed might submit himself to the inspection of the Priest, and so by his sanction be counted as healed. CHRYSOSTOM. (Hom. 26. in Matt.)
for a testimony to them. Because this deed makes manifest that Christ in His incomparable excellence is far above Moses. For when Moses could not rid his sister of the leprosy, he prayed the Lord to deliver her. But the Saviour, in His divine power, declared, I will, be thou clean. (Numb. xii.13.) CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA.
15. But the fame of him went abroad. And although the Lord in giving out remedies advised telling them to no one, instructing us to avoid pride; yet His fame flew about every where, instilling the miracle into the ears of every one. CHRYSOSTOM. (ubi sup.)
and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. Now the perfect healing of one brings many multitudes to the Lord. For the leprous man that he might shew both his outward and inward cure, even though forbidden, ceases not, (as Mark says) to tell of the benefit he had received. BEDE.
16. And he retired into the desert, and prayed. Our Redeemer performs His miracles by day, and passes the night in prayer.... hinting, as it were, to perfect preachers, that as neither they should entirely desert the active life from love of contemplation, so neither should they despise the joys of contemplation from an excess of activity, but in silent thought imbibe that which they might afterwards give back in words to their neighbours. GREGORY. (Mor. xxviii. c. 13.)
And His works He indeed performed among the people, but He prayed for the most part in the wilderness, sanctioning the liberty of resting a while from labour to hold converse with God with a pure heart. For He needed no change or retirement, since there was nothing which could be relaxed in Him, nor any place in which He might confine Himself, for He was God, but it was that we might clearly know that there is a time for action, a time for each higher occupation. GREGORY NAZIANZEN. (26.)
How typically the leprous man represents the whole race of man, languishing with sins full of leprosy, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; (Rom. iii. 23.) that so by the hand put forth, i.e. the word of God partaking of human nature, they might be cleansed from the vanity of their old errors, and offer for cleansing their bodies as a living sacrifice. BEDE.
But if the word is the healing of leprosy, the contempt of the word is the leprosy of the mind. AMBROSE.
Douay-Rheims : 1582 text
12. And it came to paſſe, when he was in one of the cities, & behold a man ful of leproſie, and ſeeing IESVS, and falling on his face, beſought him ſaying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canſt make me cleane.
13. And ſtretching forth the hand he touched him, ſaying: I wil. Be thou made cleane. And immediatly the leproſie departed from him.14. And he commanded him that he ſhould tel no body, but, Goe, shew thy self to the Prieſt, and offer for thy cleanſing as Moyſes commanded, for a teſtimonie to them.15. But the bruit of him went abrode the more, and great multitudes came togeather to heare, and to be cured of their infirmities.16. And he retired into the deſert, and praied.
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SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.
The Vladimirskaya Icon. >12th century.
Totus tuus ego sum
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam.
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