Matthew 9:15 Douay-Rheims

And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Jerome

c. A.D. 347–420 Patristic

Christ is the Bridegroom and the Church the Bride. Of this spiritual union the Apostles were born; they cannot mourn so long as they see the Bridegroom in the chamber with the Bride. But when the nuptials are past, and the time of passion and resurrection is come, then shall the children of the Bridegroom fast. The days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

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A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 9:14-17

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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