Matthew 10:30 (WEB)
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
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 · 32
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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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…it be, if any one, gradually elated by attempts of the kind referred to, should, because the Lord said that “even the hairs of your head are all numbered,” set about inquiring into the number of hairs on each one’s head, and endeavour to search out the reason on account of which one man has so many, and another so…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
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Jerome
“Matt. x. 22–34.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“But Thou, by whom the very hairs of our heads are numbered, didst use for my good the error of all who pressed me to learn; and my own error in willing not to learn, didst Thou make use of for my punishment—of which I, being so small a boy and so great a sinner, was not unworthy.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
Read the whole comment“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“…could be lost to the resurrection, whereas out of the hidden recesses of the natural world He will renew the whole, by whom even our hairs have been numbered.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
Read the whole comment““The very hairs of your head are all numbered.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
Read the whole comment“But the fulness of knowledge which He willed man to know is different from this; the knowledge which He willed thee to have, pertaineth to the law of God.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
Read the whole comment“For by Him is the sand numbered, by whom “the very hairs of our head are numbered.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
Read the whole comment“There follows here a wondrous passage in the Gospel: “the hairs of your head are all numbered.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
Read the whole comment“Is it any great thing for God to number the stars, by whom “the very hairs of your head are numbered”?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
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
Read the whole comment“Our hairs are numbered by God; how much more is our conduct known to Him to whom our hairs are thus known?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
Read the whole comment“And the Saviour says in the Gospel, “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
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John Chrysostom
“And besides what hath been mentioned, there is another thing also, which we learn from this; that His providence is not only over all in common, but also over each in particular; which He also declared with respect to His disciples, saying, “But the very hairs of your head are numbered.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
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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Tertullian
“He affirms, lastly, that “the very hairs of our head are all numbered,” and in the affirmation He of course includes the promise of their safety; for if they were to be lost, where would be the use of having taken such a numerical care of them?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 30.
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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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Clement of Alexandria
““But the very hairs of your head are all numbered,” says the Lord; those on the chin, too, are numbered, and those on the whole body.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 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.
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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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Parallel passages
Matthew 10:30 and Luke 12:7 share the same wording (9 words).
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