Luke 19:3
Douay-Rheims
And he sought to see Jesus who he was, and he could not for the crowd, because he was low of stature.
Ambrose of Milan
What means the Evangelist by describing his stature, and that of none other? It is perhaps because he was young in wickedness, or as yet weak in the faith. For he was not yet prostrate in sin who could climb up. He had not yet seen Christ.
Source details
A.D. 397 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 19:1-10
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.