Matthew 10:29 (WEB)
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
Catechism · 1
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 6:31-33; cf 10:29-31.
Fathers and councils · 31
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.70Book VIII
“For of “two sparrows which are sold for a farthing,” as the Scripture says, “not one of them falls on the ground without our Father in heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29, 30.
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“For how can we doubt that such is the case, viz., that nothing comes to man without (the will of) God, when our Lord and Saviour declares, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father who is in heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…expression which occurs in the Gospel, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them falls to the ground without the will of your Father,” take occasion to reckon up the number of sparrows caught daily, whether over all the world or in some particular district, and to make inquiry as to the reason…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, since God rules over men and him too, and without the will of our Father in heaven not even a sparrow falls to the ground, it follows that his declaration, “All these things are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give them,” proceeds from him when puffed up with pride.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
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Jerome
“Matt. x. 22–34.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…world, let him hear Him say again, Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and not one of them shall fall on the ground without My Father which is in heaven; this also, Behold the fowls of the heaven that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them; and this, My…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29. S. Cyril instead of “your Father” writes “my Father which is in heaven:” so Origen and Athanasius.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29, 30.
Read the whole comment“Perhaps thou sayest, God counteth me not in this great multitude.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
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““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
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Tertullian
“Believe it most surely, if indeed you believe in that God without whose will not even the sparrow, a penny can buy, falls to the ground.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
Read the whole comment“…(harshness) He censures and restrains, but through the debt of death) if, indeed, “one of two sparrows falleth not on the ground without the Father’s will.”” — editor's note: See Matt. x. 29. Comp. de Ex. Cast., c. i. ad fin.
Read the whole comment“But Christ, whilst confirming us in the selfsame hope, adds the example of “the sparrows”—how that “not one of them falls to the ground without the will of God.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…when the Lord says in His Gospel, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them does not fall to the ground without the will of your Father.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
Read the whole comment“…and His Gospel; so that although He says, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and neither of them falls to the ground without the will of my Father,” and His majesty and truth prove that even things of little consequence are not done without the consciousness and permission of God, you think that God’s…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
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John Chrysostom
“…and to comfort them He saith, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father which is in Heaven.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
Read the whole comment“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”“For what is viler than they?” saith He; “nevertheless, not even these shall be taken without God’s knowledge.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29, 30.
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Basil the Great
“So we have learnt in the Gospel, for not a sparrow falls to the ground without the will of our Father.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 29.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“And not one of them falleth upon the ground without the will of your Father; but the very hairs of your head are numbered.” — editor's note: Ib. x. 29, 30.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Having set aside fear of death, that the Apostles should not think that if they were put to death they were deserted by God, He passes to discourse of God’s providence, saying, “Are not two sparrows sold for a…
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If these little creations fall not without God’s superintendence and providence, and if things made to perish, perish not without God’s will, you who are immortal ought not to fear that you live without His providence.
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Figuratively; That which is sold is our soul and body, and that to which it is sold, is sin. They then who sell two sparrows for a farthing, are they who sell themselves for the smallest sin, born for flight, and for…
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That He says, “The hairs of your head are all numbered,” shews the boundless providence of God towards man, and a care unspeakable that nothing of ours is hid from God.
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For when any thing is numbered it is carefully watched over.
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Not that God reckons our hairs, but to shew His diligent knowledge, and great carefulness over us.
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Those who deny the resurrection of the flesh ridicule the sense of the Church on this place, as if we affirmed that every hair that has ever been cut off by the razor rises again, when the Saviour says, “Every hair…
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Though we may fairly enquire concerning our hair, whether all that has ever been shorn from us will return; for who would not dread such disfigurement. When it is once understood that nothing of our body shall be…
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For it is an unworthy task to number things that are to perish. Therefore that we should know that nothing of us should perish, we are told that our very hairs are numbered. No accident then that can befal our bodies…
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This expresses still more clearly the sense as it was above explained, that they should not fear those who can kill the body, for if the least animal falls not without God’s knowledge, how much less a man who is…
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Or this, “ye are better than many sparrows,” teaches that the elect faithful are better than the multitude of the unbelieving, for the one fall to earth, the other fly to heaven.
Read the whole comment - Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
Figuratively; Christ is the head, the Apostles the hairs, who are well said to be numbered, because the names of the saints are written in heaven.
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Cross-references · 27
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 9.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.70.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.70.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 10:29–31 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.22.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 9.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.26.
Cited together in Confessions IV.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.22.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 4.
Cited together in Hilary of Poitiers on Matthew 10:29–31 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Catechism §305.
Cited together in Catechism §305.
Cited together in Catechism §305.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 35.