Deuteronomy 23:25 (WEB)
When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
Fathers and councils · 2
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…rather charged the Lord’s disciples with the breach of the sabbath than with theft; because it was commanded the people of Israel in the Law, [margin note: Deut 23:25] that they should not lay hold of any as a thief in their fields, unless he sought to carry ought away with him; but if any touched only what he…” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“…ordered to the people Israel by the law, that none should lay hands on a thief in his fields, unless he wanted to carry any thing away with him from thence; for if he laid hands on nothing but what he had eaten, they would let him go away free and unpunished.” — editor's note: Deut. xxiii. 24, 25
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).