Matthew 10:13 (WEB)
If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
Fathers and councils · 22
Augustine of Hippo
Chapter XXX.—Of the Section Where It is Recorded, that Being Moved with Compassion for the Multitudes, He Sent His Disciples, Giving Them Power to Work Cures, and Charged Them with Many Instructions, Directing Them…
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John Chrysostom
“And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 12, 13.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“For as the peace of the Apostles returns to them again, [marg. note: Matt 10:13] unless there be a son of peace, so all sins return upon their actors, when one will no longer indulge his evil propensities; and thus there can be…” — the author cites it
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The Lord had said above, “The workman is worthy of his meat;” that they should not hence suppose that He would open all doors to them, He here commands them to use much circumspection in the choice of a host, saying,…
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The Apostles, on entering a strange town, could not know of each inhabitant what sort of man he was; they were to choose their host therefore by the report of the people, and opinion of the neighbours, that the…
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How then did Christ Himself abide with the publican? Because he was made worthy by his conversion; for this command that he should be worthy, had respect not to their rank, but to their furnishing food. For if he be…
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One host is chosen who does not so much confer a favour upon him who is to abide with him, as receive one. For it is said, “Who in it is worthy,” that he may know that he rather receives than does a favour.
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Also observe that He has not yet endowed them with all gifts; for He has not given them power to discern who is worthy, but bids them seek out; and not only to find out who is worthy, but also not to pass from house…
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The Apostles are not to choose carelessly the house into which they enter, that they may have no cause for changing their lodging; the same caution is not enforced upon the entertainer, lest in choosing his guests,…
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As much as to say, Pray ye for peace upon the master of the house, that all resistance to the truth may be pacified.
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Here is a latent allusion to the form of salutation in Hebrew and Syriac; they say Salemalach, or Salamalach, for the Greek, χαῖρε, or Latin, Ave; that is, ‘Peace be with you.’ The command then is, that on entering…
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Thus either the hearer, being predestined to eternal life, will follow the heavenly word when he hears it; or if there be none who will hear it, the preacher himself shall not be without fruit; for his peace returns…
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The Lord instructs them, that though they were teachers, yet they should not look to be first saluted by others; but that they should honour others by first saluting them. And then He shews them that they should give…
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The Lord therefore taught his disciples to offer peace on their entering into a house, that by means of their salutation their choice might be directed to a worthy house and host. As though He had said, Offer peace…
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The Apostles salute the house with the prayer of peace; yet so as that peace seems rather spoken than given. For their own peace which was the bowels of their pity ought not to rest upon the house if it were not…
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Also they shake off the dust as a testimony of the Apostles’ toil, that in preaching the Gospel they had come even so far, or as a token that from those that rejected the Gospel they would accept nothing, not even…
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Otherwise; The feet of the disciples signify the labour and progress of preaching. The dust which covers them is the lightness of earthly thoughts, from which even the greatest doctors cannot be free; their anxiety…
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Because to the men of Sodom and Gomorrah no man had ever preached; but this city had been preached to and had rejected the Gospel.
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Or because the men of Sodom and Gomorrah were hospitable among their sensuality, but they had never entertained such strangers as the Apostles.
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But if it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for that city, hence we may learn that there is difference of degree in the punishment of sinners.
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Sodom and Gomorrah are especially mentioned, to shew that those sins which are against nature are particularly hateful to God, for which the world was drowned with the waters of the deluge, four towns were…
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Figuratively, The Lord teaches us not to enter the houses or to mix in the acquaintance of those who persecute Christ, or who are ignorant of Him; and in each town to enquire who among them is worthy, i.e. where…
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:16–22 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:16–22 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:16–22 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:16–22 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:16–22 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:16–22 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 19:16–22 (3) (Catena Aurea).