Mark 4:40 (WEB)
He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”
Fathers and councils · 13
Athanasius of Alexandria
“For they awoke the Word, Who was sailing with them, and immediately the sea became smooth at the command of its Lord, and they were saved.” — editor's note: Mark iv. 37–41
Read the whole comment“The Lord proved the disciples, when He was asleep on the pillow, at which time a miracle was wrought, which is especially calculated to put even the wicked to shame.” — editor's note: Mark iv. 37–41
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Augustine of Hippo
“Is it that ye have no faith?”” — editor's note: Mark iv. 40. [The variations in the Greek text are numerous. Augustin gives necdum, which represents the rending followed in the Revised Version.—R.]
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
After His teaching, they come from that place to the sea, and are tossed by the waves. Wherefore it is said, “And the same day, when the even was come, &c.”
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For the Lord is said to have had three places of refuge, namely, the ship, the mountain, and the desert. As often as He was pressed upon by the multitude, He used to fly to one of these. When therefore the Lord saw…
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The Lord took the disciples indeed, that they might be spectators of the miracle which was coming, but He took them alone, that no others might see that they were of such little faith. Wherefore, to shew that others…
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Therefore He allowed them to fall into the fear of danger, that they might experience His power in themselves, who saw others benefitted by Him. But He was sleeping upon the pillow of the ship, that is, on a wooden one.
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Shewing His humility, and thus teaching us many lessons of wisdom. But not yet did the disciples who remained about Him know His glory; they thought indeed that if He arose He could command the winds, but could by no…
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But He arising, rebukes first the wind, which was raising the tempest of the sea, and causing the waves to swell, and this is expressed in what follows, “And He arose, and rebuked the wind;” then He commands the sea.…
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For from the troubling of the sea there arises a certain sound, which appears to be its voice threatening danger, and therefore, by a sort of metaphor, He fitly commands tranquility by a word signifying silence: just…
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He rebuked His disciples for not having faith; for it goes on, “And He said unto them, Why are ye so fearful?” How is it that ye have not faith? For if they had faith, they would have believed that even when…
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Mystically, however, the hinder part of the ship is the beginning of the Church, in which the Lord sleeps in the body only, for He never sleepeth who keepeth Israel; for the ship with its skins of dead animals keeps…
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Or else the ship into which He embarked, is taken to mean the tree of His passion, by which the faithful attain to the security of the safe shore. The other ships which are said to have been with the Lord signify…
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.