Hebrews 12:1 (WEB)
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
Catechism · 3
Celebrating the Church's Liturgy
“They make manifest the "cloud of witnesses"” — Catechism footnote: Heb 12:1.
I Believe
“…and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith."” — Catechism footnote: Heb 12:1-2. Article 2
Guides for Prayer
“The witnesses who have preceded us into the kingdom,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Heb 12:1.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“But by these wretched weights of mine do I relapse into these things, and am sucked in by my old customs, and am held, and sorrow much, yet am much held.” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 1.
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John Chrysostom
“[3.] ( C. xii. 1 ) “Wherefore” (he says) “we also being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.”” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…necessarily possesses a likeness to its prototype in every respect; it resembles it in being intellectual, immaterial, unconnected with any notion of weight, and in eluding any measurement of its dimensions; yet as regards its own peculiar nature it is something different from that other.” — editor's note: weight(ὄγκου). This is a Platonic word: it means the weight, and then (morally) the burden, of the body: not necessarily connected with the idea of swelling,…
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Catechism §1161.
Cited together in Catechism §2683.
Cited together in Catechism §165.
Cited together in Catechism §1161.