Luke 15:8 (WEB)
“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
Fathers and councils · 24
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Moreover, that Achamoth wandered beyond the Pleroma, and received form from Christ, and was sought after by the Saviour, they declare that He indicated when He said, that He had come after that sheep which was gone astray.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 4, 8.
Read the whole comment“In the same way they oracularly declare, that one power having departed also from the Duodecad, has perished; and this was represented by the woman who lost the drachma, and, lighting a lamp, again found it.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8.
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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“For the woman who lost her drachma, and searched for it with a lamp, unless she had remembered it, would never have found it.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8.
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
“The lost piece of silver is sought for until it is found in the mire.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8–10.
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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“Is not the fact that a woman has lost a drachma, and seeks it and finds it, and invites her female friends to share her joy, an example of a restored sinner?” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8–10.
Read the whole comment“Who sought after the lost sheep and the lost piece of silver?” — editor's note: Luke xv. 1–10.
Read the whole comment“The old woman (in the Gospel) had lost one of her ten pieces of silver, and therefore she sought it; when, however, she found it, she ceased to look for it.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.12On Virginity
“If further confirmation of what we say is required, I think it will be found in what is suggested by our Lord in the searching for the Lost Drachma.” — editor's note: S. Luke xv. 8
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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.
Read the whole comment“That the Light that is exceeding bright should follow the Candle—Forerunner, and the Word, the Voice, and the Bridegroom, the Bridegroom’s friend, that prepared for the Lord a peculiar people and cleansed them by the water in preparation for the Spirit?” — editor's note: Ib. xv. 8, 9.
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Aphrahat
“And our Lord Jesus Christ said:—What woman is there who has ten drachmos and shall lose one of them, and will not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek her drachma that she lost?” — editor's note: Luke xv. 8.
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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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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.
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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 · 17
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 10.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.16.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.16.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.16.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 15:8–10 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.16.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.16.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 10.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 10.