Matthew 10:27 (WEB)
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
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Jerome
“Matt. x. 22–34.” — the author cites it
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Hippolytus of Rome
“He took the book, therefore, and loosed it, in order that the things spoken concerning Him of old in secret, might now be proclaimed with boldness upon the house-tops.” — editor's note: Cf. Matt. x. 27.
Read the whole comment“…that also, for the information of all, it is as it were a light not set under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, proclaiming its message upon the housetops, in all byways, and all streets, and near the actual dwellings, placed in front as a certain appointed limit and termination of the dwelling, and that this is…” — editor's note: Matt. v. 15; x. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo
““What ye hear in the ear, that preach ye on the housetops.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
Read the whole commentChapter 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…
Read the whole comment“For He had said to His own disciples, “What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in the light.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
Read the whole comment“But while the Church finds delightful repose in those who thus sweetly and humbly sit at her feet, here is one who knocks, and says: “What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light; and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the house-tops.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
Read the whole comment“…said to the few whom He had as yet, “What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light; and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the house-tops”?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
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John Chrysostom
“And therefore Christ saith, that “No man knoweth the Father, save the Son.” ( Matt. x. 27.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Yet surely further on,” it will be said, “He commanded, “What ye have heard in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
Read the whole comment“For, “What I tell you,” saith He, “in darkness, that speak ye in light; and what ye have heard in the ear, that preach yeupon the housetops.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
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Aphrahat
“And also our Lord Jesus called them darkness, for He said to His disciples;—Whatsoever I say unto you in the darkness, that speak ye in the light, namely, let your light shine among the Gentiles;because they received the light of Christ, Who is the Light of the Gentiles.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
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Tertullian
“He had Himself commanded that, “whatsoever they had heard in darkness” and in secret, they should “declare in the light and on the house-tops.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
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Clement of Alexandria
““But what ye hear in the ear,” says the Lord, “proclaim upon the houses;” bidding them receive the secret traditions of the true knowledge, and expound them aloft and conspicuously; and as we have heard in the ear, so to deliver them…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27.
Read the whole comment“Comprehending this, as He who taught wished, and receiving it in its grand sense, he teaches worthily “on the housetops” those capable of being built to a lofty height; and begins the doing of what is spoken, in accordance with the example of life.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 27; Luke xii. 3.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
To the foregoing consolation He adds another no less, saying, “Fear ye not them,” namely, the persecutors. And why they were not to fear, He adds, “For there is nothing hid which shall not be revealed, nothing secret…
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How is it then that in the present world, the sins of so many are unknown? It is of the time to come that this is said; the time when God shall judge the hidden things of men, shall enlighten the hidden places of…
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Therefore neither threatening, nor evil speaking, nor power of their enemies should move them, seeing the judgment-day will disclose how empty, how nought all these were.
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Otherwise; It might seem that what is here said should be applied generally; but it is by no means intended as a general maxim, but is spoken solely with reference to what had gone before with this meaning; If you…
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Some indeed think that these words convey a promise from our Lord to His disciples, that through them all hidden mysteries should be revealed, which lay beneath the veil of the letter of the Law; whence the Apostle…
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Then having delivered them from all fear, and set them above all calumny, He follows this up appropriately with commanding that their preaching should be free and unreserved; “What I say to you in darkness, that…
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We do not read that the Lord was wont to discourse to them by night, or to deliver his doctrine in the dark; but He said this because all His discourse is dark to the carnal, and His word night to the unbelieving.…
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The meaning therefore is, “What I say to you in darkness,” that is, among the unbelieving Jews, “that speak ye in the light,” that is, preach it to the believing; “what ye hear in the ear,” that is, what I say unto…
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And what He says, “Preach ye upon the housetops,” is spoken after the manner of the province of Palestine, where they use to sit upon the roofs of the houses, which are not pointed but flat. That then may be said to…
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Otherwise; What I say unto you while you are yet held under carnal fear, that speak ye in the confidence of truth, after ye shall be enlightened by the Holy Spirit; what you have only heard, that preach by doing the…
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Otherwise; What you hear in mystery, that teach in plainness of speech; what I have taught you in a corner of Judaea, that proclaim boldly in all quarters of the world.
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As He said, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater things than these shall he do;” [John 14:12] so here He shews that He works all things through them more than through Himself;…
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Therefore they ought to inculcate constantly the knowledge of God, and the profound secret of evangelic doctrine, to be revealed by the light of preaching; having no fear of those who have power only over the body,…
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Observe how He sets them above all others, encouraging them to set at nought cares, reproaches, perils, yea even the most terrible of all things, death itself, in comparison of the fear of God. “But rather fear him,…
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This word is not found in the Old Scriptures, but it is first used by the Saviour. Let us enquire then into its origin. We read in more than one place that the idol Baal was near Jerusalem, at the foot of Mount…
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This cannot be before the soul is so joined to the body, that nothing may sever them. Yet it is rightly called the death of the soul, because it does not live of God; and the death of the body, because though man…
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Note also, that He does not hold out to them deliverance from death, but encourages them to despise it; which is a much greater thing than to be rescued from death; also this discourse aids in fixing in their minds…
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Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 25.
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Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.12.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 10:26–28 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 10:26–28 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 10:26–28 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 25.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 25.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 25 and 1 other place.