Luke 6:40 (WEB)
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
Fathers and councils · 15
Irenaeus of Lyons
““For no disciple is above the Master, but every one that is perfect shall be as his Master.”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 40.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For this reason it is that the Scripture says, “Every disciple that is perfect shall be as his master.”” — editor's note: S. Luke vi. 40. Cf. Gregory’s Treatises On Perfection, What is the Christian name and profession, Sketch of the aim of True Asceticism.
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Tertullian
“But “the disciple is not above his master.”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 40.
Read the whole comment“…God, that he might succeed, by the poison of his doctrines, in doing himself what the Lord said could not be done—making “the disciples above their Master.”” — editor's note: Luke vi. 40.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…do not choose; and we are not as the Lord, since we wish, but cannot be: “for no disciple is above his master, and it is sufficient if we be as the master:” not in essence (for it is impossible for that, which is by adoption, to be equal in substance to that, which is by nature); but [we are as Him] only in our…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 24, 25; Luke vi. 40.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord added to what had gone before a very necessary parable, as it is said, And he spake a parable to them, for His disciples were the future teachers of the world, and it therefore became them to know the way of…
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Or else, If thou judgest another, and in the very same way sinnest thyself, art not thou like to the blind leading the blind? For how canst thou lead him to good when thou also thyself committest sin? For the…
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Or the sense of this sentence depends upon the former, in which we are enjoined to give alms, and forgive injuries. If, says He, anger has blinded thee against the violent, and avarice against the grasping, how canst…
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Or, He has added the words, Can the blind, lead the blind, in order that they might not expect to receive from the Levites that measure of which He says, They shall give into thy bosom, because they gave tithes to…
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But the Lord introduces another parable taken from the same figure, as follows, But why seest thou the mote (that is, the slight fault) which is in thy brother’s eye, but the beam which is in thine own eye (that is,…
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Now this has reference to the previous parable, in which He forewarned them that the blind cannot be led by the blind, that is, the sinner corrected by the sinner. Hence it is said, Or, how canst thou say to thy…
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As if He said, How can he who is guilty of grievous sins, (which He calls the beam,) condemn him who has sinned only slightly, or even in some cases not at all? For this the mote signifies.
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But these words are applicable to all, and especially to teachers, who while they punish the least sins of those who are put under them, leave their own unpunished. Wherefore the Lord calls them hypocrites, because…
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That is to say, first shew thyself clean from great sins, and then afterwards shalt thou give counsel to thy neighbour, who is guilty only of slight sins.
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In truth, self knowledge seems the most important of all. For not only the eye, looking at outward things, fails to exercise its sight upon itself, but our understanding also, though very quick in apprehending the…
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 6:39–42 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.17.