Monday, December 15, 2008


SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #430

"And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death. But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city." (Matt. 22:6-7)

THE DESPISERS OF THE CHURCH AND HER MINISTERS: Those who persecute and speak evil of the bishops and priests of the Church, are like those rebels who ill-treated the servants of the king, and who thereby drew down on themselves his anger and vengeance. With such as these Almighty God will hold a strict account, for our Lord has said: "He that despiseth you, despiseth Me!"


[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)

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