John 10:9 (WEB)
I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
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 · 32
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.70Book VII
“…came before Me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them;” and again, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy;” and other similar passages, as, “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall…” — editor's note: John x. 8–10.
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Gregory of Nyssa
““I am the door,” Christ says; “by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 9
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And to this day they rage and gather themselves together against the Lord, and against His Anointed, thinking that it is possible to be made friends of the Father apart from devotion towards the Son, being ignorant that no man cometh unto the Father but by the Son, who saith, I am the Door, and I am the Way.” — editor's note: Ib. x. 9.
Read the whole comment“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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Clement of Alexandria
““For I am,” He says, “the door,” which we who desire to understand God must discover, that He may throw heaven’s gates wide open to us.” — editor's note: John x. 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Both these names occur in the same passage: in the Gospel, He said, that the shepherd enters by the door: the words are, “I am the good Shepherd;” and in the same passage, “I am the door:” and who is the shepherd who enters by the door?” — editor's note: John x. 11, 9.
Read the whole comment“For the Lord saith, “I am the door: by Me they enter in.”…“Declare His honour unto the heathen.”” — editor's note: John x. 9.
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“He who preacheth in Christ; because Christ is the gate whereby we enter into that city.…They, therefore, who speak against Christ, are without the gate; because they seek their own honours, not those of Christ.” — editor's note: John x. 9.
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless, with all the doors, no soul escapes this vanity but that one which hears the truth saying, “I am the door.”” — editor's note: John x. 9.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Let us adore Him Who sat down and took rest; and walked in the way, so that the Way was in the way, and the Door also for them that go in, by which they go in to the kingdom.” — editor's note: John x. 9, xiv. 6.
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Basil the Great
“…wisdom, he bestows on them that need, Scripture designates Him by innumerable other titles, calling Him Shepherd, King, Physician, Bridegroom, Way, Door, Fountain, Bread, Axe, and Rock.” — editor's note: e.g., John x. 9.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The Pharisees and the Scribes then would neither enter in, nor hear Him who said, “By me if any man enter in he shall be saved;” [John 10:9] nor would they suffer those to enter in, who were able to have believed through the things which had been spoken before by the Law and the Prophets…” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“Every one that entereth by Me shall live and shall go in and go out and find pasture.” — editor's note: John x. 9.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“On account of this, he says, Jesus uses the words, “I am the true gate.”” — editor's note: John x. 9; Matt. vii. 13.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in the same place: “I am the door: by me if any man shall enter in, he shall be saved.”” — editor's note: John x. 9.
Read the whole comment“Also in the same place: “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.”” — editor's note: John x. 9.
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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.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
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.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
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?
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
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.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
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 · 25
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.28.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 23:13 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.70.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Against Eunomius X.1.