Luke 14:26 (WEB)
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
Catechism · 1
“Christ is the center of all Christian life. the bond with him takes precedence over all other bonds, familial or social.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 14:26; Mk 10:28-31.
Fathers and councils · 28
Jerome
“xiv. 26, 27.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“A son was even forbidden to bury his father, as if to show that it is sometimes a religious duty to be undutiful for the Lord’s sake.” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26.
Read the whole comment“For you prefer to your mother Him whom you are bidden to prefer to your own soul.” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26.
Read the whole comment“For in the gospel He says: “Whosoever doth not leave all that he hath and bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26, 27.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.9Conference XXI
“…for He says: “He that hateth not father and mother and children and brothers and sisters and wife and lands, yea and his own soul also, cannot be My disciple.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xiv. 26.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.32Conference XXI
“…hateth not father and mother and wife cannot be my disciple;” and this of the Apostle: “It remaineth that they that have wives be as though they had them not.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xxiii. 29; xiv. 26; 1 Cor. vii. 29.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2Conference XXIV
“…that contributes to the support of this flesh, as He says: “He who doth not leave (or hate) father and mother and children and brethren cannot be My disciple.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xiv. 26.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Thus both of them, being now Thine, were building a tower at the necessary cost,—of forsaking all that they had and following Thee.” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26–35.
Read the whole comment“…man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26.
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John Chrysostom
“…man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple;”not commanding simply to hate them, since this were even quite contrary to the law; but “when one desires to be loved more than I am, hate him in this respect.” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26.
Read the whole comment“And how, some one may say, is the burden light, when He saith, “Except one hate father and mother;” and, “Whosoever taketh not up his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me:” and, “Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple:”when He commands even to give up our very life?” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26, 27, 33; Matt. x. 37, 38.
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Basil the Great
““He that loveth,” He says, “father, or mother, or brother, more than me, is not worthy of me.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 37, with ἀδελφούς added perhaps from Luke xiv. 26.
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Tertullian
“Parents, wives, children, will have to be left behind, for God’s sake.” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26; Mark x. 29, 30; Matt. xix. 27–30. Compare these texts with Tertullian’s words, and see the testimony he thus gives to the deity of Christ.
Read the whole comment“For God had commanded even Abraham to make a sacrifice of his son, for the sake not of tempting, but proving, his faith; in order through him to make an example for that precept of His, whereby He was, by and by, to enjoin that he should hold no pledges of affection dearer than God.” — editor's note: i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. x. 37 and Luke xiv. 26, with which may be compared Deut. xiii. 6–10 and xxxiii. 9. If Oehler’s…
Read the whole comment““He,” says Jesus, “who will value his own life also more than me, is not worthy of me,”—that is, he who will rather live by denying, than die by confessing, me; and “he who findeth his life shall lose it; but he who loseth it for my sake shall find it.”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Qui autem, inquiunt, non oderit patrem, vel matrem, vel uxorem, vel filios, non potest meus esse discipulus.”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26.
Read the whole comment“He knows accurately the declaration, “Unless ye hate father and mother, and besides your own life, and unless ye bear the sign [of the cross].”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment“But let neither this trouble you, nor the still harder saying delivered in another place in the words, “Whoso hateth not father, and mother, and children, and his own life besides, cannot be My disciple.”” — editor's note: Luke xiv. 26.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
The mind is kindled, when it hears of heavenly rewards, and already desires to be there, where it hopes to enjoy them without ceasing; but great rewards cannot be reached except by great labours. Therefore it is…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
For because many of those that accompanied Him followed not with their whole heart, but lukewarmly, He shews what kind of a man his disciple ought to be.
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But it may be asked, how are we bid to hate our parents and our relations in the flesh, who are commanded to love even our enemies? But if we weigh the force of the command we are able to do both, by rightly…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
For if for thy sake the Lord renounces His own mother, saying, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? (Matt. 12:48, Mark 3:33.) why dost thou deserve to be preferred to thy Lord? But the Lord will have us neither…
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Now to shew that this hatred towards relations proceeds not from inclination or passion, but from love, our Lord adds, yea, and his own life also. It is plain therefore that a man ought to hate his neighbour, by…
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But life must not be renounced, which both in the body and the soul the blessed Paul also preserved, that yet living in the body he might preach Christ. But when it was necessary to despise life so that he might…
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How the hatred of life ought to be shewn He declares as follows; Whosoever bears not his cross, &c.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
He means not that we should place a beam of wood on our shoulders, but that we should ever have death before our eyes. As also Paul died daily and despised death. (1 Cor. 15:31.)
Read the whole comment - Basil the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
By bearing the cross also he announced the death of his Lord, saying, The world is crucified to me, and I to the world, (Gal. 6:14.) which we also anticipate at our very baptism, in which our old man is crucified,…
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Or because the cross is so called from torturing. In two ways we bear our Lord’s cross, either when by abstinence we afflict our bodies, or when through compassion of our neighbour we think all his necessities our…
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Cross-references · 44
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.32.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.15.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:25–27 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 117.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Catechism §1618.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.9.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.15.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in Catechism §1618.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.32.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.32.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 117.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 117.
Cited together in Letters Letter 117.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 117.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.6.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.32.
Cited together in Letters Letter 117.
Cited together in Letters Letter 117.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.6.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 11.
Cited together in Catechism §1618.
Cited together in Catechism §1618.
Cited together in Catechism §1618.
Cited together in Catechism §1618.
Cited together in Catechism §1618.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 8.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.