St Luke Chapter VI : Verses 12-19
Contents
- Luke vi. 12-19. Douay-Rheims (Challoner) text & Latin text (Vulgate).
- Annotations: Cornelius A Lapide
- Annotations from the Catena Aurea
- Further Notes: The Apostles
- Douay-Rheims 1582 text
Luke vi. 12-19.
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| He chose twelve of them (whom also he named |Apostles). J-J Tissot. Brooklyn Museum. |
Factum est autem in illis diebus, exiit in montem orare, et erat pernoctans in oratione Dei.
13 And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples; and he chose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles).
Et cum dies factus esset, vocavit discipulos suos : et elegit duodecim ex ipsis (quos et apostolos nominavit) :
14 Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
Simonem, quem cognominavit Petrum, et Andream fratrem ejus, Jacobum, et Joannem, Philippum, et Bartholomæum,
15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,
Matthæum, et Thomam, Jacobum Alphæi, et Simonem, qui vocatur Zelotes,
16 And Jude, the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor.
et Judam Jacobi, et Judam Iscariotem, qui fuit proditor.
17 And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place, and the company of his disciples, and a very great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast both of Tyre and Sidon,
Et descendens cum illis, stetit in loco campestri, et turba discipulorum ejus, et multitudo copiosa plebis ab omni Judæa, et Jerusalem, et maritima, et Tyri, et Sidonis,
18 Who were come to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases. And they that were troubled with unclean spirits, were cured.
qui venerant ut audirent eum, et sanarentur a languoribus suis. Et qui vexabantur a spiritibus immundis, curabantur.
19 And all the multitude sought to touch him, for virtue went out from him, and healed all.
Et omnis turba quærebat eum tangere : quia virtus de illo exibat, et sanabat omnes.
Annotations: Cornelius A Lapide
12. He went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.—communing with God in prayer, asking the Father that He might choose for the ministry men fitted to be apostles, and would obtain for them an abundance of spiritual grace to enable them to fulfil the duties of their office; and also that He might teach us to pray in like manner.
So the Church at Ember-tide enjoins her children to fast and to pray that fitting persons may be chosen for the work of the ministry, and that those admitted to any holy function may be filled with grace and heavenly benediction; for as with the priest so with the people. When a chief pastor is zealous and God-fearing, he is a blessing and a strength to his diocese, but if he be an evil liver or slothful, he becomes a stumbling-block and offence to believers. In like manner, also, a good priest makes a good parish, but an evil one is for a destruction to his people.
Figuratively, Christ teaches us to pray in the night season that we may be the better able in silence and solitude to collect our thoughts and lift our hearts unto God; that we may be preserved from terror by night and from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and also that by our prayers during the night we may obtain spiritual graces for the profit of our fellow-men during the ensuing day.
Hence Christ prayed by night and taught in the daytime. So did S. Paul, Acts xvi. 25; and many other saints; 1 Tim. 5:5.
For the same reason David so often commends prayer during the night time, “In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord. ” Ps. cxxxiv:1, 2.
“I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.” Ps. xxix. 62.
“And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.” Ps. lxxvi.6.
“My tears have been my bread day and night,” Ps. xli. 4.
Annotations from the Catena Aurea
17. the sea coast both of Tyre and Sidon. By the sea coast he does not refer to the neighbouring sea of Galilee, because this would not be accounted wonderful, but it is so called from the great sea, and therein also Tyre and Sidon may be comprehended, of which it follows, both of Tyre and Sidon. And these states being Gentile, are purposely named here, to indicate how great was the fame and power of the Saviour which had brought even the citizens of the coast to receive His healing and teaching. Hence it follows, Who were come to hear him. BEDE.
18. to be healed of their diseases. And they that were troubled with unclean spirits, were cured. THEOPHYLACT. That is, for the cure of their souls; and that they might be healed of their diseases, that is, for the cure of their bodies.
19. And all the multitude sought to touch him, for virtue went out from him, and healed all. But after that the High Priest had made publicly known His choice of Apostles, He did many and great miracles, that the Jews and Gentiles who had assembled might know that these were invested by Christ with the dignity of the Apostleship, and that He Himself was not as another man, but rather was God, as being the Incarnate Word. Hence it follows, And the whole multitude sought to touch him, for there went virtue out of him. For Christ did not receive virtue from others, but since he was by nature God, sending out His own virtue upon the sick, He healed them all. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA.
But observe all things carefully, how He both ascends with His Apostles and descends to the multitude; for how could the multitude see Christ but in a lowly place. It follows him not to the lofty places, it ascends not the heights. Lastly, when He descends, He finds the sick, for in the high places there can be no sick. AMBROSE.
You will scarcely find any where that the multitudes follow our Lord to the higher places, or that a sick person is healed on a mountain; but having quenched the fever of lust and lit the torch of knowledge, each man approaches by degrees to the height of the virtues. But the multitudes which were able to touch the Lord are healed by the virtue of that touch, as formerly the leper is cleansed when our Lord touched him. The touch of the Saviour then is the work of salvation, whom to touch is to believe on Him, to be touched is to be healed by His precious gifts. BEDE.
Further Notes: The Apostles
To this end —
(1) They were eye-witnesses of His miracles.
(2) They received special instructions from Him during His public life, and during the forty days after His Resurrection, when He spoke of the kingdom of God (Acts i. 3), — i.e. the establishment of the Catholic Church.
(3) They were sent out on apostolic missions.
(4) Jesus Himself raised them to the priesthood.
(5) They received the fulness of the gifts of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. Their preaching during our Lord’s lifetime had for object to prepare their hearers for the preaching of Christ Himself, as the Precursor had done. As regards their powers, they could even raise the dead, but all their miracles were worked in the name of Jesus, not authoritatively, as Jesus Himself worked miracles.
14. Simon, whom he surnamed Peter. His name was changed when St Peter was brought to our Lord by St Andrew (see St John i. 42).
14.-16. names of the Apostles. Holy Scripture : — We observe, when comparing these four lists, that the names fall naturally in three groups of four. In all four —
(a) Simon Peter stands first.
(b) Philip comes fifth.
(c) James (son of Alpheus) stands ninth.
(d) Judas Iscariot is named last.
The same names always occur in their own groups, though the order may vary within the divisions, excepting for the four mentioned above.
The word “ apostle ” signifies “ one sent forth,” not merely as a messenger, but as the representative of the one who sends him forth. Thus Christ said to them : Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you (St John xx. 21). St Matthew, St Mark, and St John only employ the word “apostle” once. St Luke frequently uses it.
Douay-Rheims : 1582 text
12. ⋮And it came to paſſ in those daies, he went forth into the mountaine to pray, and he paſſed the whole night in the prayer of God.
13. And when day was come, he called his Diſciples; and he choſe twelue of them (whom also he named Apoſtles)14. Simon whom he ſurnamned Peter, and Andrew his brother, Iames and Iohn, Philippe and Bartholomew,15. Matthew and Thomas, Iames of Alphæus and Simon that is called Zelotes,16. and Iude of Iames, and Iudas Iſcariote which was the traitour.17. And deſcending with them he ſtood in a plaine place, and the multitude of his Diſciples, and a very great companie of people from al Iewrie and Hieruſalem, and to the ſea coaſt both of Tyre & Sidon,18. Which were come to heare him, and to be healed of their maladies. And they that were vexed of vncleane Spirits, were cured.19. And al the multitude ſought to touch him, becauſe vertue went forth from him, and healed al.
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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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