Genesis 3:17 (WEB)
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Catechism · 4
The Sacrament of Matrimony
“Their relations were distorted by mutual recriminations; their mutual attraction, the Creator's own gift, changed into a relationship of domination and lust; and the beautiful vocation of man and woman to be fruitful, multiply, and subdue the earth was burdened by the pain of childbirth and the toil of work.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:28; 3:16-19.
The Seventh Commandment
“By enduring the hardship of work” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:14-19.
Man
“Work is not yet a burden,” — Catechism footnote: Gen 2:15; cf. 3:17-19
The Fall
“Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:17, 19.
Fathers and councils · 14
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.28Book VII
“For these words, “Cursed shall the ground be for what thou hast done; with grief, that is, with labour, shalt thou eat of the fruit of it all the days of thy life,” were spoken of the whole earth, the fruit of which every man who died in Adam eats with sorrow or labour all the days of his life.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Adam received the sentence, Cursed is the ground in thy labours; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17, 18. By mistaking one letter in the Hebrew, the Seventy give the meaning “in thy labours” instead of “for thy sake.”
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.11Conference XXIII
“For the law of sin is really what the fall of its first father brought on mankind by that fault of his, against which there was uttered this sentence by the most just Judge: “Cursed is the ground in thy works; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and in the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17, 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Hence then comes that, “In toil shall thou eat thy bread.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“Is He not the God that in the beginning of mankind spake to Adam?” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17.
Read the whole comment“He, of His good pleasure, took up that whereunto our desert threw us down.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17, etc.
Read the whole comment“Which it was profitable to the vessels of mercy to feel, that by throwing down pride, obedience might be loved, and misery perish, never again to return.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17, etc.; Rom. viii. 20.
Read the whole comment“This delivering up is first signified in Genesis, where, when it had been said to the serpent, “Dust shalt thou eat,” it was said to the man, “Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 14–19
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread, till thou return into the ground from which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou go.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17–19.
Read the whole comment“Thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return unto the earth from which also thou wast taken; because earth thou art, and to earth thou shalt go.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17–19.
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Ambrose of Milan
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread, till thou return to the earth from which thou wast taken.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17 ff. [LXX.].
Read the whole comment“…fathers by the prophets, and to us in the last days by His Son; “and as the Son is one, Who according to the tenour of the Old Testament was offended by Adam, seen by Abraham, worshipped by Jacob; so, too, the Holy Spirit is one, who energized in the prophets, was breathed upon the apostles, and was joined to the…” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“This is why the heathen rage and the peoples imagine vain things; why tree is set over against tree, hands against hand, the one stretched out in self indulgence, the others in generosity; the one unrestrained, the others fixed by nails, the one expelling Adam, the other reconciling the ends of the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 6–23.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The earth for man’s sin is accursed that it should not put forth fruit, according to that in Genesis, “Cursed is the ground in thy works;” [Gen 3:17] but when we do well, then it is blessed.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.28.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.12.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 6:31–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 6:31–33 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.11.
Cited together in Catechism §400.
Cited together in Catechism §400.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.12.
Cited together in Catechism §2427.
Cited together in Catechism §2427.
Cited together in Catechism §1607 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §378.
Cited together in Catechism §378.
Cited together in Catechism §400.
Cited together in Catechism §1607.