1 Peter 5:8 (WEB)
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Catechism · 2
The Seven Petitions
“The Holy Spirit constantly seeks to awaken us to keep watch.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 16:13; Col 4:2; 1 Thess 5:6; 1 Pet 5:8.
The Fall
“This dramatic situation of "the whole world [which] is in the power of the evil one"” — Catechism footnote: I Jn 5:19; cf. I Pt 5:8.
Fathers and councils · 26
Augustine of Hippo
“And Christ a Rock, and the stony heart of the Jews; also, Christ a Lion, and the devil a lion, and innumerable such like, shall be said to be lies.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 4; Ezek. xxxvi. 26; Rev. v. 5; 1 Pet. v. 8
Read the whole comment“…of peace, and not to find the way thither,—in vain to attempt impassable ways, opposed and waylaid by fugitives and deserters, under their captain the “lion” and the “dragon;” and another to keep to the way that leads thither, guarded by the host of the heavenly general, where they rob not who have deserted the…” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle says, “Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“They have taken Me, like that adversary who “walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“The devil hath been called lion: “Your adversary,” He saith, “like a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom He may devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Christ is called “a lion:” “The Lion hath prevailed of the tribe of Judah;” and the devil is called a lion: “Know ye not that your adversary the Devil walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour?”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“For the devil is called a lion, going about and roaring, seeking whom he may devour.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“The dragon cast Adam out of Paradise; as a lion, the same persecuted the Church, as Peter says: “For your adversary, the devil, goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“For that which is cut off from the one Church, (1 Pet. 5:8) who taketh away, except the roaring lion, who goeth about every where, and seeketh whom he may devour?” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“He sees so many receiving salvation, and is seeking whom he may devour.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…the destroying Devil to be a beneficent Angel we be devoured: for, as the Scripture saith, he goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Again, He is called a Lion, not as a devourer of men, but indicating as it were by the title His kingly, and stedfast, and confident nature: a Lion He is also called in opposition to the lion our adversary, who roars and devours those who have been deceived.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.4Book III
“…see a lodgment made for them by sloth; as the Apostle Peter says, “that our adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Some they delivered to the Senate, some they trapped at their good pleasure, leaving no stone unturned in their anxiety to hunt in all from every quarter to impiety, going about in all directions, and like the devil, the proper father of heresy, they sought whom they might devour.” — editor's note: 1 Peter v. 8
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Gregory the Great
“For indeed our adversary the devil, who, in his rage against the humble, as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour (1 Pet. v. 8), no longer, as we perceive, walks about the folds but so resolutely fixes his teeth in certain necessary members of the Church that, unless with…” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But since, like their leader, they too go about like lions seeking whom among the simple they shall devour, we are compelled to write in reply to your piety, that the brethren being once again instructed by your admonition may still further reprobate the vain teaching of those men.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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John Chrysostom
““Because our adversary the devil,” It saith, “walketh about as a roaring lion.” ( 1 Pet. v. 8.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Some, from that verse of Peter, “Your adversary the Devil, &c.” [1 Pet 5:8] will have the Saviour’s command to be, that we should be merciful to the Devil, not causing him to endure punishment for our sakes.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
““Our adversary as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour,” and do you think of peace?” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment““Our adversary the devil goeth about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Satan means adversary, and one who dislikes Christ’s commandments, is more than Christ’s adversary; he is anti-christ.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Leo the Great
“Above and below it “goes about,” seeking “whom it may” strike, dismay, and “devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
“We have an adversary who assails us, for our adversary “the devil goeth about, as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,” as the Apostle said.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
Read the whole comment““Our adversary the devil as a roaring lion seeketh whom he may kill, whom he may devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…his epistle, forewarns and teaches, saying, “Be sober, and watch; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking any one to devour.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“If a ravening and roaring lion, seeking what he may devour of our souls or of our words; or a wild boar, trampling under foot the precious and translucent pearls of the Truth; or an Arabian and alien wolf, or one…” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 8.
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Cross-references · 35
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Catechism §409.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.49.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.49.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in De Principiis III.4.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 24.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 2:14–17 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 2:14–17 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 2:14–17 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 2:14–17 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.49.
Cited together in De Principiis III.4.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in De Principiis III.4.
Cited together in De Principiis III.4.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.