The King's Reign

Et regnabit... Praeconium est ab actu regiminis. Dicit autem duo: regnum, et super quos regnat. Regnare autem Jesum nihil aliud est, quam leges suas et potestatem indicere his super quos regnat. Illas autem leges indicit suis tribus modis: in corde videlicet, et in aure, et in docendo quod lex impleatur ubi vacua esse monstratur. In corde scribit per spiritum: in aure per verbum prolatum. Implere autem legem docet per mysterium. De scriptura cordis: Dabo legem meam in visceribus eorum, et in corde eorum scribam eam. Et, Dando leges meas in mentem eorum, et in corde eorum superscribam eas. Signa legem in discipulis meis. Sic enim oramus ut adveniat regnum Patris, qui est in caelis . Epistola nostra vos estis. Et subinfert, quod est scripta spiritu Dei vivi. Intellectus autem et affectus in quibus leges regni sui scribit Deus, sunt duae tabulae scriptae digito Dei. In aure autem scripsit, Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat. Per aurem etiam scribitur: per auditum enim fidem accipit de regno. Fides ex auditu: auditus autem per verbum Christi. Implet autem legem, spiritualiter docens intelligi regnum et legem. Littera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat. Non veni solvere legem, sed adimplere. Vacua enim est lex sine spiritu. Hoc igitur est regnare Christum in his in quibus regnat, dum leges et mandata in corde suscipiunt, et audita pertractant, et quae vacua sunt carnaliter, intellecta spiritualiter implent. Hi autem qui sic legibus suis contradicunt, nolunt eum regnare super se: et ideo inimici reputantur, et occidendi coram ipso. Inimicos meos illos, qui noluerunt me regnare super se, adducite huc, et interficite ante me. Regnavit Dominus Deus noster omnipotens. Gaudeamus, et exsultemus, et demus gloriam ei. Super solium David, et super regnum ejus, etc. Et, Virga directionis virga regni tui. Sic ergo regnabit Sanctus Albertus Magnus Commentarium In Evangelium Lucam, Caput I Source: Here p82

And He shall reign... 1 Here is a proclamation of the act of reigning. And this speaks of two things, the kingdom and those over whom He will reign. Because for Jesus to reign is nothing else than to proclaim His laws and power to those over whom He reigns. And He declares these laws in three ways, that is, in the heart, and in the ear, and in the teaching that shall fulfill the law where it is found wanting. In the heart He writes with the spirit, in the ear by the word sent forth, and the law is fulfilled by His teaching through the mysteries. Concerning the writing of the heart, 'I shall place my law in your innermost part, and in your heart I shall write it.' And, 'In the giving of my laws into their minds, and I will write them upon their hearts.' And, 'Sign the law in my followers.' 2 So we pray that the kingdom of the Father will come, He who is in heaven. 'You are our letter.' And after that: 'Which has been written with the living spirit of God.' 3 And the understanding and love in which God writes the laws of the kingdom are the two tablets written by the finger of God. And He has written in the ear with: 'He who has ears, let him hear,' and it is written through the ear when by hearing faith is received regarding the kingdom. 'Faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the word of Christ.' 4 And He fulfills the law with His teaching of the understanding of the kingdom and the law. 'The letter kills, the spirit gives life.' And, 'I have not come to set aside the Law but to fulfill it.' 5 The law is empty without the spirit. This, then, is the reign of Christ, when men take up His laws and commandments in their hearts, and learn by hearing, and so fill up the things that are empty carnally with spiritual understanding. But those who oppose His laws, they are unwilling that Christ should reign over them, and therefore they are accounted enemies, and they are destroyed in His presence. 'Those who are my enemies, those who do not wish me to reign over them, bring them here, and kill them before me.' And 'Our Almighty Lord God has reigned. Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give glory to Him.' And 'Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom.' And, 'The rod of direction is the rod of your kingdom.' 6 So He shall reign. Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Luke, Chapter 1 1 Lk 1.32 2 Jerem 31.33, Heb 8.10, Isaiah 8.16 3 2 Cor 3.2, 4 4 Lk 8.8, Rom 10.17 5 2 Cor 2.6, Mt 5.17 6 Lk 19.27, Apoc 19.6-7, Ps 44.7