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루카 복음서 10,41-42 에 대한 Cornelius a Lapide(1567-1637년)의 해설 [교리용어_관상적삶][_실천적삶] 1411_ |
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2013-07-10 ㅣ No.1411 게시자 주: 이 글은, 다음의 글 중에서 본문의 일부로서 링크되고 있는 글입니다: http://ch.catholic.or.kr/pundang/4/soh/1410.htm 5. 다음은 The Great Biblical Commentary of Cornelius a Lapide(1567-1637년) 에 주어진 루카 복음서 10,41-42에 대한 해설 전문입니다. 특히 제42절에 대한 교부들과 저술가들의 주석들이 대단히 많음에 주목하십시오. 그 이유는 아마도 루카 복음서 10,38-42가 가톨릭 보편 교회의 전례력에 있어 대단히 오랜 기간 동안에 그리고 1950년까지, 동정 마리아의 몽소 승천 축일의 복음 말씀으로 발췌되어 읽혔기 때문일 것입니다: 출처: ttp://www.catholicapologetics.info/scripture/newtestament/10luke.htm 게시자 주: 최근에 들어와, 위의 출처로의 접속이 되지 않고 있으며, 아마도 최근에 다음의 주소로 이전한 것 같습니다: 출처: http://www.corneliusbiblecommentary.faithweb.com/10luke.htm (이상, 게시자 주 끝) (발췌 시작) Ver. 41. - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things. The repetition of her name, says S. Augustin, "is a sign of affection, or perhaps of a desire to arrest her attention more particularly to what He was about to say. For she was so entirely engrossed by her household cares, that His words might have been unheeded had she not been specially addressed by name." S. Augustin adds, "Mary made no reply, because she preferred to commit her cause to her Judge, and knew that Christ would, as He was wont, stand by her and support her. Hence Christ, who was appealed to as Judge, became her Advocate." Interlinear Gloss. Thou art too anxious, Martha, and therefore thou are troubled. Thou desirest to prepare many things for me, whereas I need but few. Emmanuel Sa and all the others translate τυζβ?ζ?, thou art confused, but the better rendering is, thou art troubled. For those who are anxious about many things experience much perturbation of mind hence too much care and anxiety is the sign of excessive love or fear, and so they who love honour or riches, or any other thing too much, fear lest they may lose what they love, and become perturbed and anxious. Ver. 42. - But one thing is needful(다만 한 가지 일이 궁핍/부족하다). The Greek has ε?νο?ς δ? ε?στιν χζε?α ; and this "one thing" Christ places in opposition to the "many things" about which Martha was troubled. What then is this one thing which is needful? Luther, Bullinger, The truer and more orthodox interpretation seems to be that of those who understand by "one thing" one kind of food. Thou art anxious, Martha, to place before me many dishes, but to no purpose, for I require but one. I want not a rich banquet, but only ordinary food, for I am temperate, and a lover of humble fare. I do not blame, but praise your desire to do Me honour, yet I warn you not to be over careful for the things of this life, nor to call your sister away from hearing My words. So Theophylact, S. Gregory, and others. Hear also S. Basil: "There is need of few things, or rather of but 2. But in a higher sense, the one thing needful is the love of God, and the desire of salvation. This was the good part which Mary had chosen ; and therefore, explaining the one thing needful, Christ goes on to say, "Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her." The meaning is, therefore, this : Thou, Martha, art troubled about many things, but I exhort thee to devote thyself to one thing alone, to seek to please God, and Him only, in every action of thy life, and to do everything out of love towards Him. So, not attempting that which thou art unable to perform, thou wilt be enabled to serve God quietly and without fear, and to accomplish whatsoever He would have thee to do. Bede, Euthymius, and others. Hence S. Augustine and S. Gregory say, "This one thing is the end and chief good of men, on which their minds should be ever fixed;" and Cassian says, "The one thing needful is a mind which, regardless of all else, is fixed on God alone, and rejoices in the contemplation of His perfections." For although divine contemplation is not necessary for salvation it is necessary for the perfection of those who are united to God by a holy life. So the Psalmist says, Ps. xxvii. 4, "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after ; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life." And S. Paul, Phil. iii. 13, 14, "One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." And again, Esther xiv. 18, "Thine handmaid hath never rejoiced since I was brought hither, unto this day, but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham." Douay. For Christ saith, S. John xvii. 3, "This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." Wherefore, when S. AEgidius, a very holy man, one of the first followers of S. Francis, was asked the way to holiness and perfection, he answered, " Una uni." Let your whole mind be entirely given up to God, and one with Him. For unity is contrary to division, and God is one. Wherefore let him who seeks God return to unity with Him, for God must be sought by conformity of will, and by the union of the intellect and affections. S. Bernard (serm. 7 in Cant.} Hence S. Augustine (lib. n, 18 De Ordine.) proves by induction that all things tend to one, because, as he shows, "Unity or single ness is the first fruit of God, who is the first essential and uncreate unity, the origin and fount of all other unities ; "and in a later chapter he dwells upon the beauty of unity. In short, the one thing needful is God. All other things contingent and immaterial, created by the good pleasure of God out of nothing; and as, to quote the proverb, he who pursues two hares catches neither, so he who strives to please God and the world fails to attain either object. Figuratively, this "one thing" is to be acquired by meditation and prayer, for thus men are brought into communion with God. Hence he who would lead a religious life should seek this one thing only, so as to be thereby drawn into union with the Almighty. S. Dionysius and Climacus. "A monk is one who always has his soul lifted up to God ; one who prays at all times, at all places, and on all occasions;" and S. Chrysostom says, "Prayer is the heart and soul of a perfect and religious life;" and S. Bonaventura (De perfectione vitae, chap. 5), declares that "If any one who has taken the vows of a religious life omits frequent prayer, his soul is dead within him, or in other words he is like a body without a soul, Hear also what Epictetus says to Arrian : "All first principles must, as if the world were turned upside down, return to one all beauty, truth, and everything which is good, to one origin every thing divine to one God, all unity to the Triune." For unity, the beginning of things, goodness, truth and God are the same, and therefore one. Hence we read, Cant. ii. 16, "My beloved to me, and I to Him," for the Bride makes entire surrender of herself to her spouse ; and so the saints desire to put off the flesh, that their souls may be united with God. So S. Paul was willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord (2 Cor. v. 8); and Simeon, " Lord, now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word;" and the Psalmist, "Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech." Ps. cxx. 5. S. Basil speaks of some who abhorred this life, as if it were a dark prison, and with difficulty restrained their desire (ο?ζγαι?ς) for release, because their hearts were filled with the love of God, and eager to gaze upon the divine perfections : they longed for the time when they might for ever contemplate the loving-kindness of the Lord. Wherefore David says, Ps. xlii. 2, "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God?" Again, where sin is there is division ; but where virtue, there one For unity imparts holiness to the mind, health to the body, peace Mary hath chosen that good part. The Syriac and Arabic add "to herself" hath taken to herself. The Greek word α?γαθη?ν implies excellence, hence the Vulgate gives optimam. For Christ commends the one sister more than the other. " Thou, Martha, hast chosen well, but Mary better. Thou hast not chosen a bad part, but she a better." S. Augustine. "Behold, Martha is not blamed, but Mary is praised." Bede. And again, S. Augustin (serm. 27 De Verbis Domini), "Can we imagine that Martha was blamed for being intent on hospitable cares? How could she be rightly blamed for rejoicing over such a guest?" So also Ambrose and Cassian (Collat. i., chap. 8). S. Augustin gives another figurative interpretation: "Why was Mary's the better part ? Because she preferred the one thing to many. Many things were created, but there was but one Creator, and if the things created were very good, how excellent must He be who created them." There are three persons in the Godhead, and these three are one, so the nearer you approach to perfect unity, the nigher you draw to God; and Christ Himself prays the Father that His disciples "may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us." And again, "The glory which thou gavest Me have I given them ; that they may be one, even as We are one." See S. John xvii. 21 et seq. Hence to choose the good part, is to give up all care of earthly Hear Richard de S. Victor on Cant, viii : "Mary chose the better Hence the joy of Magdalene was real and lasting. So S. Bernard says, "It is impossible to enjoy here on earth a sweet and happy life, since the earth itself is subject to constant change; but there is a joy lasting in its happiness, which arises out of a pure conscience. For the mind which is purified from earthly affections and entirely fixed on the contemplation of heavenly things, fears no threatenings, knows no fear, conceives no false hopes, but, void of all offence, rests in perfect peace." Hugo Victorinus accounts for this perfect peace thus: "A conscience is quiet and void of offence when it is kindly affectioned to all, and bears ill-will to none : when it regards a friend with kindness, an enemy with patience, and seeks to do good, if possible, to all men." Allusion is here made, says Maldonatus, to the manner in which the ancients divided an inheritance. It was customary for the eldest son to divide the property into as many parts as might be requisite, and for his brothers to have the first choice, so as to ensure an equal division. Seneca (lib. vi., Declamatio 3). Thus Christ was the inheritance, which Martha as the elder sister But the active and the contemplative life combined tend to perfection, for the one controls and directs the other. So Christ taught Which shall not be taken away from her. Because to hear, like Mary, the word of God, and to meditate thereon, is spiritual food which will support the soul until it comes to appear in the eternal presence ; but to minister, as Martha, is to choose that part which endures but for this present life. S. Augustin and others. Hence S. Gregory: "The part which Mary chose will never be taken away from her, because a contemplative life is unlike an active life, its joys gain strength from death." Hear also S. Augustin: "That which thou hast chosen, Martha, will be taken from thee, that something better may be given. For in place of labour thou shalt have rest. Thou hast not yet reached thy journey s end, but thy sister is in the haven." And a little before he says, "Martha was troubled how she might feed the Lord, Mary anxious to be fed by Him." And again, "Carefulness for many things passes away, but the love of one thing lasts for ever." And Laurentius Justinianus says, "An active life is an anxious one, but a life of contemplation possesses a lasting joy. The one obtains a kingdom, while the other perceives only. In the one the world Again S. Gregory writes, "The active life ends with this world : for in the next who can give bread to the hungry where there is no hunger or drink to the thirsty where there is no thirst. But the contemplative life begins here on earth, to be perfected in heaven ; for the fire of divine love which is kindled here, burns brighter in the presence of God, who is its object." See also Cassian, who says amongst other things, "In the future Observe, as against Calvin, that Martha is the type of the active life, and that Mary, sitting silently at Jesus feet, insensible to what was going on around because of her rapt attention to the words of Christ, a type of the contemplative. S. Bernard and others. But what is contemplation? S. Augustin (or whoever else may be the author of the treatise De Spiritu et Animo) answers, "It is the joyful admiration of a manifest truth." But S. Bernard defines contemplation as "the uplifting of the mind to God, whereby we gain a forestate of the joys of happiness eternal." Others again say, "It is the sure intuition of the soul or its undoubted apprehension of the truth." But Gerson, following Hugo, says, "It is to be dead to all carnal desires, and to taste how sweet the Lord is. As David rejoiced in the living God (Ps. Ixxxiv. 9), and declared God to be his portion for ever." Ps. Ixxiii. 25. S. Gregory also (hom. 14 in Ezck.) thus describes the duties of each Hence S. Thomas says, "The contemplative life, although mainly intellectual, originates in the affections, inasmuch as it springs out of the love of God, and the end of such a life is like the beginning, for delight at the sight of that which we love increases our love for it." The contemplative life therefore causes a man to rise superior to And so the Church has rightly appointed this portion of scripture to be read on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin because she rendered to Christ the service both of Martha and of Mary, and chose that good part, of which she will never be deprived.
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