Deuteronomy 6:8 (WEB)
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Fathers and councils · 3
John Chrysostom
“Circumcise the flesh, it says; anoint the flesh; wash the flesh; purify the flesh; shave the flesh; bind upon the flesh; cherish the flesh; rest as to the flesh.” — editor's note: See Deut. vi. 8
Read the whole comment“…to be inscribed on little tablets, and that these should be suspended from their hands (wherefore also He said, “They shall be immoveable in thine eyes”),which they called phylacteries; as many of our women now wear Gospels hung from their necks.” — editor's note: Deut. vi. 8; so LXX. A.V. “as frontlets between.”
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…the commandments of the Law through Moses, added at the end, “And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be ever before thine eyes;” [Deut. 6:8] the meaning of which is, Let my precepts be in thine hand so as to be fulfilled in thy works; let them be before thine eyes so as that thou shalt…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
