ACC ~ Luke 4 v14 - 15

THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT MANIFESTED

ORIGEN: First of all, “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days.” When Jesus was being tempted by the devil, the word spirit is put down twice without any qualification since the Lord still had to struggle against him. See what is written about the Spirit emphatically and carefully, after he had fought and had overcame the three temptations that Scripture mentions. The passage says, “Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit.” “Power” has been added, because he had trodden down the dragon and conquered the tempter in hand-to-hand combat. So “Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to the land of Galilee, and reports about him went out to the whole surrounding region. He was teaching in their synagogues, and was glorified by all.” HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 32.1. [1]

[1] FC 94:130*.

TEACHING IN THE SYNAGOGUE

EPHREM THE SYRIAN: What was the custom of him who had come just now? He had come to Galilee and had begun to teach, not outside of the synagogue but within it. Since the matter was known through their worship service, he came to talk to them about their God. Otherwise it would have been in order for him to proclaim to them outside their synagogue. COMMENTARY ON TATIAN’S DIATESSARON 11.23. [1]

[1] ECTD 186.

FAME COMES FROM HIS MIRACLES AS SON OF GOD

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: After he mightily defeated Satan—after he crowned human nature in his own person with the spoils won by the victory over Satan—he returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, both exercising might and authority. He performed very many miracles and greatly astonished his people. He performed miracles, because he is by nature and in truth the Son of God the Father, not because he received the grace of the Spirit from the outside as a gift, as the company of the saints do. He took what was his as his own proper inheritance. Yes, he said to the Father, “All that is mine is yours, and yours mine, and I am glorified in them.” [1] He is glorified therefore by exercising as his own might and power the power of the Spirit who shares his substance. COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 12. [2]

[1] Jn 17:10.

[2] CGSL 91**.