Matthew 10:28

“Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 5:22, 29; 10:28; 13:42, 50; Mk 9:43-48.

“But "soul" also refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 10:28; 26:38; Jn 12:27; 2 Macc 6 30.

“For this purpose did He give them this exhortation: “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to send both soul and body into hell;” [thus exhorting them] to hold fast those professions of faith which they had made in reference to Him.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“Matt. x. 22–34.” — the author cites it

“But these men the Lord confutes, saying on the contrary, Rather fear ye Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

““Fear not,” He says, “those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul, but rather fear Him Who can cast both body and soul into hell.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. x. 28.

““Fear not them,” said our Lord, “which can kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. x. 28.

“And I have read that I ought not to fear those that can kill the flesh.” — editor's note: S. Matt. x. 28.

““Fear not them who are able to kill the body, but are unable to do ought against the soul; but fear Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“For “a fire shall proceed before His face, and shall utterly burn His enemies;” striking down not the body only, but the souls too, into hell.” — editor's note: Comp. Matt. x. 28; Luke xii. 4, 5.

“But He also teaches us, that “He is rather to be feared, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell,” that is, the Lord alone; “not those which kill the body, but are not able to hurt the soul,” that is to say, all human powers.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“And in the gospels the Lord said to the holy disciples “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28. cf. Luke xii. 4, 5

“Eran.—So He said “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28

“And the Lord in the sacred Gospels said to His apostles “Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28

“He is to be feared whose anger no one can escape, as He Himself forewarns, and says: “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both body and soul in hell.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“And again: “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“Whence the Lord exhorts and strengthens us to contempt of death, saying: “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him which is able to kill soul and body in Gehenna.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“Also in the same place: “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him which is able to kill the soul and body in Gehenna.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“For those whose bodies they sought to kill, the Lord hath freed from anxiety, saying, “Fear not them who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.”…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“Thou didst mind a man raging against thee; what was he to do, against whom thine own Lord had given thee security, saying, “Fear not them that kill the body”?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“What therefore should I fear, when Juda my king saith, “Fear not them that kill the body”?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

““Fear not them that kill the body, but the soul are not able to kill; but Him rather fear ye, that hath power to kill both body and soul in the hell of fire.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“Let him vent his rage on the flesh, the trap will be broken, and I will fly to my Lord, that saith to me, “Do not fear them that kill the body, but the soul are not able to kill.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“For when the power of human wrath hath killed the body, it hath nothing more to do: but God hath power both to punish here, and after the death of the body to send into Hell, and by the few who are thus taught, the vain and seductive prosperity of the wicked is judged to be greater wrath of God.…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28; Ps. lxxiii. 2, 3, 17.

“Hear Him preserving the souls of His servants, and saying, “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“Both without, then, and within; without, like a garment; within, like water: since he hath come before the judgment-seat of Him “who hath power to destroy both body and soul in hell;” the body without, the soul within.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“My heart hath stood in awe of these words, “Fear not them that kill the body,” etc. I have scorned man who persecuteth me, and have overcome the devil that would seduce me.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“Fear not those who kill the body,” etc. He gave them fear, He suggested hope, He kindled love.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 16, 28.

““Fear not them that kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

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…

“…that not a hair of their head shall perish, exhorting that they should not fear them which when they have killed the body have nothing more that they can do?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28

““But” (say I) “in such a slaughter-heap of dead bodies, could they not even be buried? not this, either, doth pious faith too greatly dread, holding that which is foretold that not even consuming beasts will be an hindrance to the rising again of bodies of which not a hair of the head shall perish.” — editor's note: Luke xxi. 18; xii. 4–7; Matt. x. 28–30

“In very deed therefore it was declared, that the Lord in saying, “Fear not them which kill the body, and afterward have no more that they can do,” did not mean that He would not permit them to do any thing to the bodies of His followers when dead; but that whatever they might be permitted to do, nothing…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28; Luke xii. 4

“…should become witnesses of this truth also, in which they had learned that they by whom their bodies should be slain had after that no more that they could do.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28

“For that death which men are foolishly afraid of who are not afraid to sin, kills not the soul but the body, as the Lord teacheth in the Gospel; whence He charges us not to fear that death: but the mouth which lies kills not the body but the soul.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28

“For He did not therefore lose His immortality, because He took mortal flesh; seeing that it could not happen even to the human soul, that it should die with the body, when the Lord Himself says, “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28

“Again, the death of the flesh of our Lord contains a type of the death of our outer man, since it is by such suffering most of all that He exhorts His servants that they should not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28

“On the words of the Gospel, Matt. x. 28, “Be not afraid of them that kill the body.”” — the author cites it

“Though he whom I displease by the truth harass my body with oppressions, I will give ear to my Lord, “Fear not them which kill the body.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“The Truth would nowise have said, “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul,” if anything whatever that an enemy could do to the body of the slain could be detrimental to the future life.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“…when he has received from his Lord, who is also King of his country, a more certain oracle, “Fear not them who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul?”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“This the Saviour referred to when He said, “Fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

“For He had said to them, “Fear ye not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

““But fear Him who hath power to destroy both body and soul, in hell fire.”” — editor's note: “In the gehenna of fire.” Matt. x. 28, and Luke xii. 4, 5.

““Fear Him who hath power to slay both soul and body in hell.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28, and Luke xii. 4, 5.

“Since in the resurrection some are cast out, (“Take him, and cast him into outer darkness,” Matt. xxii. 13 ,) and some are destroyed. (“Rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”) ( Matt. x. 28.)” — the author cites it

““Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28.

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“Could death make Him fear what could be done to the body, when He exhorted the disciples, Fear not those which kill the body?” — editor's note: St. Matt. x. 28.

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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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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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…

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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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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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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Matthew 10:28 and Luke 12:4 share the same wording (9 words).

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