Luke 15:10 (WEB)
Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
Fathers and councils · 22
Augustine of Hippo
“…on the Shepherd’s shoulders, while the angels rejoice, and the drachma is restored to Thy treasury, the neighhours rejoicing with the woman who found it; and the joy of the solemn service of Thy house constraineth to tears, when in Thy house it is read of Thy younger son that he “was dead, and is alive again,…” — editor's note: Luke xv. 4–10.
Read the whole comment“And when she had found it, “Rejoice with me,” she said to her neighbors, “for I have found the piece of money which I lost.”” — editor's note: Luke xv. 4–10.
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Jerome
“No word is said of the flock as a whole, yet the angels joy in heaven over the safety of one sick ewe.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 7, 10.
Read the whole comment“The lost piece of silver is sought for until it is found in the mire.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8–10.
Read the whole comment“No wonder indeed that men should thus exult in the salvation of one at whose conversion there was joy among the angels in heaven.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 7, 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…sit with Him may rejoice in thy fragrance, that is, honour the lowest, so that the angels may rejoice in their forgiveness, as over one sinner that repenteth, the apostles may be glad, the prophets be filled with delight.” — editor's note: S. Luke xv. 10.
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Tertullian
“Similarly, the parable of the drachma, as being called forth out of the same subject-matter, we equally interpret with reference to a heathen; albeit it had been “lost” in a house, as it were in the church; albeit “found” by aid of a “lamp,” as it were by aid of God’s word.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8–10.
Read the whole comment“The heavens, and the angels who are there, are glad at a man’s repentance.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 7, 10.
Read the whole comment“Who sought after the lost sheep and the lost piece of silver?” — editor's note: Luke xv. 1–10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And He calls together His Angel friends on the finding of the coin, and makes them sharers in His joy, whom He had made to share also the secret of the Incarnation?” — editor's note: Ib. xv. 8, 10.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And for this reason (they maintain) that when an error had arisen respecting the twelfth number, the sheep skipped from the flock and wandered away; for that the apostasy took place, they say, in like manner from the decade.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 4–10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For “great is the joy before the Father when one sinner is saved,” saith the Lord.” — editor's note: These words are not in Scripture, but the substance of them is contained in Luke xv. 7, 10.
Read the whole comment“For it is said there is great and exceeding joy and festival in the heavens with the Father and the angels when one sinner turns and repents.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 10.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
By the preceding parable, in which the race of mankind was spoken of as a wandering sheep, we were shewn to be the creatures of the most high God, who has made us, and not we ourselves, and we are the sheep of his…
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He who is signified by the shepherd, is also by the woman. For it is God Himself, God and the wisdom of God, but the Lord has formed the nature of angels and men to know Him, and has created them after His likeness.…
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Or by the nine pieces of silver, as by the ninety and nine sheep, He represents those who trusting in themselves, prefer themselves to sinners returning to salvation. For there is one wanting to nine to make it ten,…
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And because there is an image impressed on the piece of silver, the woman lost the piece of silver when man (who was created after the image of God) by sinning departed from the likeness of his Creator. And this is…
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But the piece of silver being found, He makes the heavenly powers partakers of the joy whom He made the ministers of His dispensation, and so it follows, And when she had found it, she calls together her friends and…
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For the heavenly powers are nigh unto Divine wisdom, inasmuch as they approach Him through the grace of continual vision.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Either they are friends as performing His will, but neighbours as being spiritual; or perhaps His friends are all the heavenly powers, but His neighbours those that come near to Him, as Thrones, Cherubims, and Seraphims.
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
Or else; this I suppose is what our Lord sets before us in the search after the lost piece of silver, that no advantage attaches to us from the external virtues which He calls pieces of silver, although all of them…
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To work repentance is to mourn over past sins, and not to commit things to be mourned over. For he who weeps over some things so as yet to commit others, still knows not how to work repentance, or is a hypocrite; he…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 15:8–10 (Catena Aurea).