Luke 6:25 (WEB)
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Fathers and councils · 23
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.13Conference I
“For he was perfectly aware of another detestable joy, of which we hear “the world shall rejoice,” and “woe unto you that laugh, for ye shall mourn.”” — editor's note: S. Luke vi. 25.
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John Chrysostom
“Dost not thou see how Sarah was rebuked? dost thou not hear Christ saying, “Woe to them that laugh, for they shall weep”? ( Luke vi. 25.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For he who hath been bidden to mourn, and hath heard, “Woe, ye that laugh” ( Luke vi. 25 ), and who after this insults, and jests, and is excited, demands not reproach from us, but sorrow, since Christ also was troubled when He thought on Judas.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Wherefore Christ also blesses the one, saying, “Blessed are they that mourn,”but the other sort He bewails, saying, “Woe unto you that laugh, for ye shall weep.”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 25.
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Basil the Great
“He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him; he ought not to indulge in jesting; he ought not to laugh nor even to suffer laugh makers.” — editor's note: This charge is probably founded on Luke vi. 21 and 25, and James iv. 9. Yet our Lord’s promise that they who hunger and weep “shall laugh,” admits of…
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Tertullian
“But I think that He must have likewise “fasted” inasmuch as He has pronounced, not “the full,” but “the hungry and thirsty, blessed:” (He) who was wont to profess “food” to be, not that which His disciples had supposed, but “the thorough doing of the Father’s work;” teaching “to labour for…” — editor's note: Comp. Luke vi. 21 and 25, and Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“He inflicts a woe also on “the full, because they shall hunger; on those too which laugh now, because they shall mourn.”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 25.
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Ambrose of Milan
““Woe unto you that laugh, for ye shall weep,” says the Lord.” — editor's note: S. Luke vi. 25.
Read the whole comment“Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger, and to those who laugh, for they shall mourn!”” — editor's note: S. Luke vi. 24, 25.
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Gregory the Great
“For ye shall weep (Luke vi. 25); but the latter hear from the teaching of the same Master, I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man shall take from you (Joh. xvi. 22).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““Woe to them that rejoice!”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 25.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Having said before that poverty for God’s sake is the cause of every good thing, and that hunger and weeping will not be without the reward of the saints, he goes on to denounce the opposite to these as the source of…
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For this expression, woe, is always said in the Scriptures to those who cannot escape from future punishment.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
But although in the abundance of wealth many are the allurements to crime, yet many also are the incitements to virtue. Although virtue requires no support, and the offering of the poor man is more commendable than…
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Woe to you that are full, for ye shall be hungry. That rich man clothed in purple was full, feasting sumptuously every day, but endured in hunger that dreadful “woe,” when from the finger of Lazarus, whom he had…
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Now it is plain that the rule of abstinence is necessary, because the Apostle mentions it among the fruits of the Spirit. (Gal. 5:23.) For the subjection of the body is by nothing so obtained as by abstinence,…
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In another way. If those are happy who always hunger after the works of righteousness, they on the other hand are counted to be unhappy, who, pleasing themselves in their own desires, suffer no hunger after the true…
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Whereas the Lord reproves those who laugh now, it is plain that there will never be a house of laughter to the faithful, especially since there is so great a multitude of those who die in sin for whom we must mourn.…
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But tell me, why art thou distracting and wasting thyself away with pleasures, who must stand before the awful judgment, and give account of all things done here?
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But because flattery being the very nurse of sin, like oil to the flames, is wont to minister fuel to those who are on fire with sin, he adds, Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.
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What is said here is not opposed to what our Lord says elsewhere, Let your light shine before men; (Matt. 5:16.) that is, that we should be eager to do good for the glory of God, not our own. For vain-glory is a…
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By the false prophets are meant those, who to gain the favour of the multitude attempt to predict future events. The Lord on the mountain pronounces only the blessings of the good, but on the plain he describes also…
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And mark, that Matthew by rewards called the people to virtue and faith, but Luke also frightened them from their sins and iniquities by the denunciation of future punishment.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.4.
Cited together in Basil the Great on Luke 6:24–26 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Basil the Great on Luke 6:24–26 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 6:24–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).