ACC ~ Mark 11 v15b

DRIVEN OUT

BEDE: He scattered the fraudulent traders, and drove them all out, together with the things that had to do with the carrying on of trade. What, my beloved, do you suppose our Lord would do if he should discover people involved in disputes, wasting time gossiping, indulging in unseemly laughter, or engaged in any other sort of wicked actions?

Remember: when he saw traders in the temple buying the sacrificial offerings meant to be made to him, he was prompt in getting rid of them. [1] … These things should cause us great perturbation, beloved; we should dread them exceedingly with well-deserved fear, and carefully avoid them with painstaking diligence, lest he come unexpectedly and find something evil in us, as a result of which we should rightly be scourged and cast out of the church. EXPOSITION ON THE GOSPEL OF MARK 2.1. [2]

[1] HE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL | MARK 1:1-5

[2] Cetedoc 1367, 2.1.39; HOG 2:23*. Cf. Jerome Commentary on Matthew 21.15 (CCL 77:188).