Luke 12:22 (WEB)
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
Fathers and councils · 8
Tertullian
“But “think not,” says He, “about food;” and as an example of clothing we have the lilies.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 25, 31, etc.; Luke xii. 22–24.
Read the whole comment“Who would be unwilling that we should distress ourselves about sustenance for our life, or clothing for our body, but He who has provided these things already for man; and who, therefore, while distributing them to us, prohibits all anxiety respecting them as an outrage…” — editor's note: Luke xii. 22–28.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…thought for your life (ψυκῆ) what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on; for the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment.”” — editor's note: Luke xii. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“For your life is more than meat, and your body than raiment.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 31; Luke xii. 22, 23.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord carries us onward by degrees to a more perfect teaching. For He taught us above to beware of covetousness, and He added the parable of the rich man, intimating thereby that the fool is he who desires more…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
Now the words, Take no thought, are not the same as do no work, but, “Have not your minds fixed on earthly things.” For it so happens, that the man who is working takes no thought.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Now the soul is more excellent than food, and the body than clothing. Therefore He adds, The life is more than meat, &c. As if He said, “God who has implanted that which is greater, how will He not give that which is…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Now nothing is more likely to produce conviction in believers that God can give us all things, than the fact, that the ethereal spirit perpetuates the vital union of the soul and body in close fellowship, without our…
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Cross-references · 1
Matthew 6:25 and Luke 12:22 share the same wording (24 words).