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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....

Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of Moses among the prophets” (Eccli. 46:1); and another lived about the time of the building of the Temple, about whom it is written in Zacharias 3.2 These men were Jesus nominally and figuratively, insofar as they were prefiguring him. The former Jesus3 led the people of Israel into the promised land; but this Jesus, who is our Savior, did not lead us into a carnal land, but into a heavenly land: For we have the author and finisher in His Blood, etc., (Heb.
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