John 15:1 (WEB)
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Catechism · 3
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“In every liturgical action the Holy Spirit is sent in order to bring us into communion with Christ and so to form his Body. the Holy Spirit is like the sap of the Father's vine which bears fruit on its branches.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 15:1-17; Gal 5:22.
Grace and Justification
“Through the power of the Holy Spirit we take part in Christ's Passion by dying to sin, and in his Resurrection by being born to a new life; we are members of his Body which is the Church, branches grafted onto the vine which is himself:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 12; Jn 15:1 4.
The Church in God's Plan
“Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness to the branches, that is, to us, who through the Church remain in Christ, without whom we can do nothing.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 39; Rom 11:13-26; Mt 21:32-43 and parallels; Isa 51-7; Jn 15:1-5.
Fathers and councils · 26
Tertullian
“…whom you believe to be the Father (described as acting for the Father, although you, for your part, forsooth, suppose that “the Father, being the husbandman,” must surely have been on earth) is once more recognised by the Son as in heaven, when, “lifting up His eyes thereto,” He commended His disciples to the…” — editor's note: John xv. 1.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Thou art made partaker of the Holy Vine.” — editor's note: John xv. 1, 4, 5.
Read the whole comment“A garden was the place of His Burial, and a vine that which was planted there: and He hath said, I am the vine!” — editor's note: John xv. 1. The Benedictine Editor has a different punctuation: “and the vine which was planted there hath said, And I am the Vine.”
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Eran.—Yes I know that he said “I am the true vine.”” — editor's note: John xv. 1
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For when Christ says, “I am the true vine,” the blood of Christ is assuredly not water, but wine; neither can His blood by which we are redeemed and quickened appear to be in the cup, when in the cup…” — editor's note: John xv. 1.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence the Truth in person says, My Father is the husbandman, and every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away; but every branch that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit (John xv. 1, 2).” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“…is to say, for every man, He was made sin, and a curse, that for me and in me was He humbled and made subject, that for me He is the Lamb, the Vine, the Rock, the Servant, the Son of an handmaid, knowing not the day of judgment, for my sake ignorant of the day and the hour.” — editor's note: S. John i. 29, 36; xv. 1; 1 Cor. x. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For most evidently God the Father hath been called a Husbandman.” — editor's note: John xv. 1.
Read the whole comment“Thus the Lord saith in the Gospel, “I am the Vine, ye are the branches, My Father is the Husbandman.”” — editor's note: John xv. 1, 5.
Read the whole comment“And, (that ye may know that He doth cultivate us) hear Him whom He hath sent to us: “I,” saith He, “am the vine, ye are the branches, My Father is the Husbandman.”” — editor's note: John xv. 1.
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Basil the Great
“He invites us to produce fruits in abundance, for fear lest our sterility should condemn us to the fire.” — editor's note: cf. S. John xv. 1-6.
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John Chrysostom
“…sowing needs one thing only, that we cast forth our possessions; all the rest will that Husbandman do, of whom Christ saith, “My Father is the Husbandman.” ( c. xv. 1.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For “My Father,” saith He, “is the Husbandman.”” — editor's note: John xv. 1.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“The day of that fox stank like himself; but holy is the feast of the True Lamb.” — editor's note: It may be well to observe once for all, that true is often use, as in John xv. 1, for “real,” in opposition to “typical,” as in Scripture, so in the Fathers.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Through this assumption we are in Him, as the branches in the vinestock; and unless He had become the Vine, we could have borne no good fruit.” — editor's note: St. John xv. 1, 2.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Then He adds, “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit He pruneth, that it may bring forth more fruit.”” — editor's note: John xv. 1, 2.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For He was the vine.” — editor's note: John xv. 1.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
He rises in haste to perform the sacrament of His final passion in the flesh, (such is His desire to fulfil His Father’s commandment:) and therefore takes occasion to unfold the mystery of His assumption of His…
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He says this as being the Head of the Church, of which we are the members, the Man Christ Jesus; for the vine and the branches are of the same nature. When He says, I am the true vine, He does not mean really a vine;…
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But He wholly separates this humiliation in the flesh from the form of the Paternal Majesty, by setting forth the Father as the diligent Husbandman of this vine: And My Father is the Husbandman.
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For we cultivate God, and God cultivates us. But our culture of God does not make Him better: our culture is that of adoration, not of ploughing: His culture of us makes us better. His culture consists in extirpating…
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And forasmuch as Christ was sufficient for Himself, but His disciples needed the help of the Husbandman, of the vine He says nothing, but adds concerning the branches, Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He…
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The useless and deceitful branches He cuts down for burning.
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And inasmuch as even the best of men require the work of the husbandman, He adds, And every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. He alludes here to the tribulations and trials…
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And who is there in this world so clean, that he cannot be more and more changed? Here, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. (1 John 1:8) He cleanseth then the clean, i. e. the fruitful, that the…
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Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you, i. e. ye have been enlightened by My doctrine, and been delivered from Jewish error.
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Cross-references · 14
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Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
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Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 15:1–3 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 25.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 25.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 25.