Luke 3:17

“They also maintain that John indicated the same thing when he said, “The fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge the floor, and will gather the wheat into His garner; but the chaff He will burn with fire unquenchable.”” — editor's note: Luke iii. 17.

“…His lips, and having a fan in His hands, and cleansing His floor, and gathering the wheat indeed into His barn, but burning the chaff with unquenchable fire.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 12; Luke iii. 17.

“The same thing may be thus understood in another similitude: the wine He will lay up in cellars, but the husks He will cast forth to cattle: so that by the bellies of the cattle we may be allowed by way of similitude to understand the pains of hell.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 17.

“…has told us how, in the days of John’s baptizing, and at the time when the Lord, being then a grown man, was also baptized, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee; whereas Matthew tells us that the boy Jesus returned from Egypt after the death of Herod.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1–21.

“For as in Matthew, so also in Luke, the words are the same, and they are given in the same order, “He shall baptize you in the Spirit and in fire,”—with this single exception, that Luke has not added the adjective “Holy,” while Matthew has given it thus: “in the Holy Spirit and in fire.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 3–12; Mark i. 6–8; Luke iii. 7–17.

“Yet, that the incident referred to here did not, as matter of fact, occur in the order in which it is here recorded, we have already shown elsewhere; and, indeed, Luke himself puts the proof into our hands.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 15–21.

“When the Winnower shall come with His fan in His Hand, “He will cleanse His floor, and lay up the wheat into the garner; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”” — editor's note: Luke iii. 17.

“But the sacrament of baptism He founded in His own person, because “in all things having the pre-eminence,” He taught that He Himself was the Beginning.” — editor's note: Baptismi sui in se condidit sacramentum: the baptism of Christ has very generally been associated with the Epiphany: the record of it, for instance, in S. Luke…

““For the fan is in the Lord’s hand, by which the chaff due to the fire is separated from the wheat.”” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 12; Luke iii. 17.

“For, he says, the fruit has been produced for the purpose of being laid in the storehouse, whereas the chaff that it may be delivered over to the fire.” — editor's note: Matt. iii. 12; Luke iii. 17.

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By the following words, And he shall thoroughly purge his floor, the Baptist signifies that the Church belongs to Christ as her Lord.

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By the sign of a fan then the Lord is declared to possess the power of discerning merits, since when the corn is winnowed in the threshing floor, the full cars are separated from the empty by the trial of the wind…

But the chaff signifies the trifling and empty, blown about and liable to be carried away by every blast of sin.

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The fire of hell is here wonderfully expressed, for our earthly fire is kept up by heaping wood upon it, and cannot live unless supplied with fuel, but on the contrary the fire of hell, though a bodily fire, and…

Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 61.

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Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 61.

Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 3:15–17 (4) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 61.

Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.

Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 61.

Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.

Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.

Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.

Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.

Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 61.

Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 61.

Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 61.

Matthew 3:12 and Luke 3:17 share the same wording (16 words).