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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Blessed Junipero Serra, OFM Priest (Optional Memorial)
| Matthew 8: 23 - 27 | |
| 23 | And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. |
St. John Chrysostom
Now Luke, Luke 8:22 to free himself from having the order of time required of him, says thus, And it came to pass on a certain day that He went into a ship with His disciples; and Mark in like manner. But this evangelist not so, but he maintains the order in this place also. For they did not all of them write all things in this way. And these things I have mentioned before, lest any one from the omission should suppose there was a discordance.
| 24 | And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. |
St. John Chrysostom
The multitudes then He sent on, but the disciples He took with Himself: for the others mention this too. And He took them with Him, not for nought, nor at hazard, but in order to make them spectators of the miracle that was to take place.
Pseudo-Origen
This tempest did not arise of itself, but in obedience to the power of Him Who gave, commandment, who brings the winds out of his treasures. There arose a great tempest, that a great work might be wrought;. because by how much the more the waves rushed into the boat, so much the more were the disciples troubled, and sought to be delivered by the wonderful power of the Savior.
The Blessed Theophylact
Jesus slept so that when they had become terrified they would recognize their own weakness and call upon Him.
| 25 | And they went and woke him, saying, "Save, Lord; we are perishing." |
St. John Chrysostom
They knew that when wakened He could rebuke the waves, but they did not yet know that He could do it while sleeping.
| 26 | And he said to them, "Why are you afraid, O men of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. |
St. John Chrysostom
But He rebuked them before He rebuked the sea. Because as I said, for discipline these things were permitted, and they were a type of the temptations that were to overtake them.
The Blessed Theophylact
The disciples showed their faith when they said, "Lord, save us;" but when they said, "We are perishing," they lacked faith. They ought not to have been afraid, as Jesus was with them in the boat. See how, by chastising them for cowardice, He shows that cowardice itself is a danger. This is why He calms first the turbulence of their souls, and then the storm.
| 27 | And the men marveled, saying, "What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?" |
The Blessed Theophylact
In appearance He was a man, but His deeds showed that He was God.
St. John Chrysostom
For because Moses had once done some such thing, in this regard also does He signify His own superiority, and that the one works miracles as a slave, the other as Lord. Thus, He put forth no rod, as Moses did, neither did He stretch forth His hands to Heaven, nor did He need any prayer, but, as was meet for a master commanding His handmaid, or a creator His creature, so did He quiet and curb it by word and command only; and all the surge was straightway at an end, and not one trace of the disturbance remained.
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