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Luke 12:56Luke.12.56

[Ye] ‹hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?›

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Hypocrites! vous savez discerner l'aspect de la terre et du ciel; comment ne discernez-vous pas ce temps-ci?

KJV

[Ye] ‹hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?›

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    tioned in Daniel 9 : wherefore the Jews are reproached for not knowing the time of Christ's coming ( Lk. 12:56 ): "You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth, but how is it that you do not discern this time?" Therefore it would seem that the t…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)

    dicitis: quia aestus erit, et fit. Hypocritae, faciem coeli et terrae nostis [Col. 0448A] probare (Luc. XII, 54-56) .» Et Paulus. «Dies observatis, et menses, et tempora, et annos: timeo, ne forte sine causa laboraverim in vobis (Gal. IV, 10) .» Quia ergo supradicta Babylonis fi…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 188 (Migne)

    li probantes debere tempus intelligere manifestum, atque consentiendum adversario in via pronuntiat (Luc. XII, 49-59) . Nuntiatis quibusdam a Pilato occisis, ait omnes, nisi poenitentiam agant, similiter perituros; vel sicut illi XVIII turris ruina oppressi. Parabolam quoque de s…

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