Luke 17:33 (WEB)
Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
Catechism · 1
“Charity inspires a life of self-giving: "Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it."” — Catechism footnote: Lk 17:33.
Fathers and councils · 10
Gregory of Nyssa
“Bronze melts in it; mud hardens; wax vanishes: while all other animals are destroyed by it, the salamander is preserved alive; tow burns, asbestos is washed by the flames as if by water; so much for his ‘sameness of works from one and the same energy.’” — editor's note: is preserved alive; ξωογονεῖται. This is the LXX., not the classical use, of the word. Cf. Exod. i. 17; Judges viii. 19, &c. It is reproduced in the speech of…
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Basil the Great
“He quickens together with God, who produces and preserves all things alive, and together with the Son, who gives life.” — editor's note: In 1 Tim. vi. 13, St. Paul writes τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζωοποιοῦντος πάντα. In the text St. Basil writes τὰ πάντα ζωογονοῦντος. The latter word is properly…
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Because good men must needs on account of the wicked be sore vexed in this world, in order that they may receive a more plentiful reward in the world to come, they are here punished with certain remedies, as it is…
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For he is on the housetop who, departing from carnal things, breathes as it were the free air of a spiritual life. But the vessels in the house are the carnal senses, which many using to discover truth which is only…
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Matthew relates all these things to have been said by our Lord, with reference to the destruction of Jerusalem, that when the Romans came upon them, they who were on the housetop should not come down to take any…
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He hereby implies that a persecution will come from the son of perdition upon Christ’s faithful. By that day then He means the time previous to the end of the world, in which let not him who is flying return, nor…
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Because thus she looked behind, she lost the gift of her nature. For Satan is behind, behind also Sodom. Wherefore flee from intemperance, turn away from lust, for recollect, that he who turned not back to his old…
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Lot’s wife represents those who in time of trouble look back and turn aside from the hope of the divine promise, and hence she was made a pillar of salt as a warning to men not to do likewise, and to season as it…
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Next follows the promise, Whosoever shall seek, &c. as if he said, Let no man in the persecutions of Antichrist seek to secure his life, for he shall lose it, but whoso shall expose himself to trials and death shall…
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How a man may lose his own life to save it, St. Paul explains when he speaks of some who crucified their flesh with the affections and lusts, (Gal. 5:24.) that is, with perseverance and devotion engaging in the conflict.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.26.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 17:31–33 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.26.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.26.