Luke 17:5 (WEB)
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
Catechism · 1
“To live, grow and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lord to increase our faith;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 9:24; Lk 17:5; 22:32
Fathers and councils · 18
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…clothed in purple and who fared sumptuously, and the indigent Lazarus; also the answer which He gave to His disciples when they said, “Increase our faith;” also His conversation with Zaccheus the publican; also about the Pharisee and the publican, who were praying in the temple at the same time; also the ten…” — editor's note: Luke xvii. 5.
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Jerome
“Why do the apostles say:“Lord, increase our faith,” if there is one measure for all?” — editor's note: S. Luke xvii. 5.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But if thou thinkest that thou really art faithful, but hast not yet the fulness of faith, thou too hast need to say like the Apostles, Lord, increase our faith: for some part thou hast of thyself, but the greater part thou receivest from Him.” — editor's note: Luke xvii. 5.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And the disciples say to the Lord: “Increase our faith.”” — editor's note: S. Luke xvii. 5.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.16Conference III
“…which concerns salvation was given them by the Lord, that they even asked that faith itself should be granted from the Lord, saying: “Add to us faith” as they did not imagine that it could be gained by free will, but believed that it would be bestowed by the free gift of God.” — editor's note: S. Luke xvii. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For they who said, “Lord, increase our faith,” had faith.” — editor's note: Luke xvii. 5.
Read the whole comment“For they themselves, as mindful of their own weakness, said to Him, as we read in a certain place in the Gospel, “Lord, increase our faith.” — editor's note: Luke xvii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Look at the very Apostles: they would not have left all they had, have trodden under foot this world’s hope, and followed the Lord, if they had not had great faith; and yet if they had full faith, they would not have said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”” — editor's note: Luke xvii. 5.
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Aphrahat
“He said to them:—If there were in you faith, even a mountain would remove from before you.” — editor's note: Luke xvii. 5, and Matt. xvii. 19; xxi. 21.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Whence, perceiving the greatness of its power, they asked “that faith might be added to them;” a faith which salutarily bites the soil “like a grain of mustard,” and grows magnificently in it, to such a degree that the reasons of things sublime rest on it.” — editor's note: Luke xvii. 5.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
The disciples hearing our Lord discoursing of certain arduous duties, such as poverty, and avoiding offences, entreat Him to increase their faith, that so they might be able to follow poverty, (for nothing so prompts…
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That is, that the faith which has already been received in its beginning, might go on increasing more and more unto perfection.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
We may indeed understand that they asked for the increase of that faith by which men believe in the things which they see not; but there is further signified a faith in things, whereby not with the words only, but…
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But our Lord told them that they asked well, and that they ought to believe stedfastly, forasmuch as faith could do many things; and hence it follows, And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed,…
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He mentions the mustard seed, because, though small in size, it is mightier in power than all the others. He implies then that the least part of faith can do great things. But though the Apostles did not transplant…
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Or our Lord here compares perfect faith to a grain of mustard seed, because it is lowly in appearance, but fervid in heart. But mystically by the mulberry tree, (whose fruit and branches are red with a blood-red…
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Or this is said because faith keeps out the unclean spirit, especially since the nature of the tree falls in with this meaning. For the fruit of the mulberry is at first white in the blossom, and being formed from…
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The mulberry may be also compared to the devil, for as by the leaves of the mulberry tree certain worms are fed, so the devil, by the imaginations which proceed from him, is feeding for us a never dying worm; but…
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Cross-references · 21
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Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.11.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.11.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 30.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.16.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 30.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 30.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.16.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.11.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.11.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.14.