John 10:7 (WEB)
Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
Catechism · 1
“It is also the flock of which God himself foretold that he would be the shepherd, and whose sheep, even though governed by human shepherds, are unfailingly nourished and led by Christ himself, the Good Shepherd and Prince of Shepherds, who gave his life for his sheep.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. Jn 10:1-10; Isa 40:11; Ezek 34:11-31; Jn 10:11; 1 Pet 5:4; Jn 10:11-16.
Fathers and councils · 22
Cyril of Jerusalem
“For He is called a Door; but take not the name literally for a thing of wood, but a spiritual, a living Door, discriminating those who enter in.” — editor's note: John x. 7, 9. Cyril calls Christ a “spiritual,” or “rational” (λογική) door, and applies the same term to His sheep, below. Origen (In Evang. Joh. Tom. i. cap.…
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Augustine of Hippo
“To enter by Christ, who Himself said, “I am the door:” and to enter through Christ, is to imitate His ways.…He urges us to imitate Him in those works which He could not have done had He not been made Man; for how could He endure sufferings, unless He had become a Man?” — editor's note: John x. 7.
Read the whole comment“The Shepherd entereth by the gate: and He saith, “I am the good Shepherd:” and, “I am the Door of the Sheep.”…Learn thus to understand, when these things are spoken figuratively; lest perchance when ye have read that the Rock signifieth Christ, ye may understand it to mean Him in every passage.” — editor's note: John x. 11, 7.
Read the whole comment“…even from the stones have flocked unto Abraham: sheep which were not of this fold, have flocked unto him, that there might be one flock, and one shepherd; the faith of all nations was added, and the number grew, not only of wise priests, but of obedient peoples; the Lord increasing not only their fathers more and…” — editor's note: John x. 1–16, 28, 29.
Read the whole comment“You find them both in that place, both “I am the Door” and “I am the Shepherd.”” — editor's note: John x. 7, 11.
Read the whole comment“For as He said, “I am the Way;” so also, “I am the Door.”” — editor's note: John x. 7.
Read the whole comment“Not without cause, then, art thou seeking how thou mayest get out; and this only thou findest, that thou hast not entered by the door, but fell in over the wall.” — editor's note: John x. 7.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This, he says, is what is spoken: “I am the door.”” — editor's note: John x. 7.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord, to waken the attention of the Jews, unfolds the meaning of what He has said; Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
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Lo, the very door which He had shut up, He openeth; He is the Door: let us enter, and let us enter with joy. All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers.
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He saith not this of the Prophets, as the heretics think, but of Theudas, and Judas, and other agitators. So he adds in praise of the sheep, The sheep heard them not; but he no where praises those who disobeyed the…
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Understand, All that ever came at variance with Me. The Prophets were not at variance2 with Him. They came with Him, who came with the Word of God, who spake the truth. He, the Word, the Truth, sent heralds before…
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As if to say, The sheep hear not them, but Me they hear; for I am the Door, and whoever entereth by Me not falsely but in sincerity, shall by perseverance be saved.
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The door admits the sheep into the pasture; And shall go in and out, and find pasture. What is this pasture, but the happiness to come, the rest to which our Lord brings us?
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What is this, shall go in and out? To enter into the Church by Christ the Door, is a very good thing, but to go out of the Church is not. Going in must refer to inward cogitation; going out to outward action; as in…
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Or, to go in is to watch over the inner man; to go out, (Colos. 3) to mortify the outward man, i. e. our members which are upon the earth. He that doth this shall find pasture in the life to come.
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Or, He refers to the Apostles who went in and out boldly; for they became the masters of the world, none could turn them out of their kingdom, and they found pasture.
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But He Himself explains it more satisfactorily to me in what follows: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and for to kill: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. By…
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Shall go in, i. e. to faith: shall go out, i. e. to sight: and find pasture, i. e. in eternal fulness.
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The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill. As if He said, And well may the sheep not hear the voice of the thief; for he cometh not but for to steal: he usurpeth another’s office, forming his followers not…
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The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; this was literally fulfilled in the case of those movers of seditiona, whose followers were nearly all destroyed; deprived by the thief even of this…
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Mystically, the thief is the devil, steals by wicked thoughts, kills by the assent of the mind to them, and destroys by acts.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 10:7–10 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 10:7–10 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.