Then said he unto the disciples,
It is impossible but that temptations to sin will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
s8 , 9.—And will not rather say unto him. That Isaiah , I suppose, because he does not owe thanks to his servants. "For it is incumbent upon such an one to do his master"s will," says Theophylact. "So there is laid upon us," as Bede says, "the necessity of doing all things that God has commanded, and by fresh diligence, of always increasing our former services." The meaning Isaiah , as S. Ambrose says, "As we not only do not say to our servant, Take thy repose (recumbe), but require of him a further service, and give him no thanks, so neither does the Lord permit in us one only work, for all while living ought to work always. Acknowledge we ourselves therefore to be servants, lending very many acts of obedience on interest. Nor should we exalt ourselves, because we are called the sons of God. Grace is to be acknowledged, but nature is not to be passed over (ignoranda), nor should we boast ourselves, if we have served well in that which we ought to do. The sun obeys, the moon submits, the angels serve."
