What lack I yet? (τ ετ υστερω?) Here is a psychological paradox. He claims to have kept all these commandments and yet he was not …

All these, and so on. I have made these the rule of my life. I have endeavoured to obey them. Is there anything that I lack—any new comman…

All these things have I kept — There is obviously a tone of impatient surprise in the questioner’s reply. He had come seeking some…

And he said to him, Why do you call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if you want to enter into life, keep the commandment…

Rabanus Maurus: This man had, perhaps, heard from the Lord that only those who were like little children were worthy to enter …

Jesus lists the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and fifth commandments of Ex 20, in that order, and then adds, “Love your neighbor as yourself” ([Re…

The young man says to him
For though he was so very rich and in such an exalted station in life, as to be a ruler, i…

Christ knew that covetousness was the sin which most easily beset this young man. Although he had obtained honestly what he possessed, he still cou…

In this pa age, it was shown how one comes to eternal life by the common way. Here, He teaches how one comes by the way of perfection. This way of …