An Angel's Promise

Introduxit Tobias angelum ad patrem suum, qui salutavit eum, dicens, Gaudium tibi sit semper. Cui respondenti: Quale mihi gaudium erit, qui in tenebris sedeo, et lumen coeli non video? Forti, inquit, animo esto, in proximo est ut a Domino cureris. Et Dominus noster per miracula quae fecit in carne, ostendit populo Judaeorum, ex quo carnem susceperat, quia ipse est Filius Dei, et angelus, id est, nuntius paternae voluntatis. Cui etiam gaudium perpetuae salutis praedicavit, dicens: Poenitentiam agite, appropinaquabit enim regnum coelorum. Et desperantibus de acquirendo lumine coelesti: Ego sum, inquit lux mundi; qui sequitur me, non ambulat in tenebris, sed habebit lumen vitae. Promittit angelus Tobiae ducere filium ejus in Rages civitatem Medorum, et reducere ad eum.   Promittit Dominus credentibus ex populo Judaeorum, quamvis idem populus ex magna sit parte caecatus, quod incarnationis suae sacramenta plebi gentilium aperiat, rursuque in fine temporum, eadem suo populo ex quo carnem assumpserat, latius pandat, comitante ubique simul et cuncta operante fide divinitatis ipsius. Dicit ipse de ductu ad Medo: Et alias oves habeo, quae non sunt ex hoc ovili, et illas oportet me adducere, etc. Dicit Apostolus de reditu: Donec plenitduo gentium introiret, et sic omnis Israel salvus fieret. Sanctus Beda, In Librum Beati Partis Tobiae Allegorica Interpretatio Source: Migne PL 91 927a-c

Tobias brought the angel to his father who greeted him, saying, 'Joy to you always.' To whom he replied. 'What sort of joy shall I have who sits in darkness and does not look on the light of heaven?' 'Be strong of soul,' he said, 'For the time is near when you shall be cured by the Lord.' 1 And our Lord by the miracles he did in the flesh, shows to the people of the Jews, from who he assumed His flesh, that He is the son of God, and an angel, that is, a herald of the will of the Father. To whom he preached the joy of eternal salvation, saying, 'Repent, for near is the kingdom of heaven.' 2 And to those despairing of acquiring the heavenly light: 'I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.' 3 The angel promised to lead the son of Tobias into Rages, a city of the Medes, and to return to him. 4 The Lord promises to the believers of the people of the Jews, although a large part of that people were blind, that He shall reveal the mystery of His Incarnation to the people of the Gentiles, and again at the end of those times, to the same people from whom he assumed his flesh, reveal more broadly, with everyone everywhere at the same attending to the work of faith, His divinity. He says concerning the leading to the Medes: 'And other sheep I have, which are not of this flock, that should be led in by me.' 5 The Apostle says concerning the return 'Until the fulness of the Gentiles has entered, and so all Israel shall be saved.' 6 Saint Bede, from An Allegorical Interpretation of the Book of Tobit 1 Tob 5.11-13 2 Mt 4.11 3 Jn 8.12 4 Tobit 5.15 5 Jn 10.16 6 Rom 11.25-26