Matthew 5:1
Douay-Rheims
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him.
Rabanus Maurus
Mystically, this sitting down of Christ is His incarnation; had He not taken flesh on Him, mankind could not have come unto Him.
Source details
A.D. 856 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:1-3
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.