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Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew is a translation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew given in Paris in approximately the year 1270. This is the first ever English translation of this major work. It will be a useful commentary, especially as an aid for preaching sermons. Numerous explanations and cross references to other works of St. Thomas are given in the text....

I see life, inasmuch as I see some indications by which its life is indicated to me; so it will be in the divine vision, because so great will be the refulgence in the new heaven, in the new earth, and in the glorified bodies, that through these things we will be said to see God, as it were, with the corporeal eyes. Therefore, Blessed are the clean of heart, etc. That passage, “No man hath seen God,” can truly be explained in three ways. Firstly, it can be explained that it is not by a comprehensive
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