[Officium]
S. Joannis Apostoli ante portam Latinam

[Lectio7]
Evangélium szent Máté Apostol kőnyvéből
!Matt 20:20-23
Azon időben odament hozzá a Zebedeus fiak anyja a fiaival együtt, és leborult előtte, hogy kérjen tőle valamit. És így tovább.
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Homily by St Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
!Comment, on Matt. xx. Bk. 3.
Whence had the mother of Zebedee's children gotten her idea of the Lord's kingdom He had but just said „The Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, (and to scourge,) and to crucify Him.” He had told His trembling disciples of the outrages that awaited Him in His Passion and yet that mother came to Him to ask for her sons a share in the glory of His Triumph. I think it was because the Lord, after He had said all the rest, had said also „And the third day He shall rise again.” The woman supposed that after His resurrection His kingdom would immediately be established, and that that would be fulfilled at His first coming which is promised at His second. And so, with womanly haste, she forgetteth the future, and catcheth at the present.