Matthew 13:32 (WEB)
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”
Fathers and councils · 7
Tertullian
“For why should God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole world, the Fashioner of humanity, the Sower of universal nations be believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, and not be said to have assigned it to all nations?” — editor's note: Comp. Jer. xxxi. 27 (in LXX. it is xxxviii. 27); Hos. ii. 23; Zech. x. 9; Matt. xiii. 31–43.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For just as the grain of mustard seed is small in size, but fiery in its operation, and though sown in a small space has a circle of great branches, and when grown up is able even to shelter the fowls; so, likewise, faith in the swiftest moment works the greatest effects in the soul.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 32.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence we give thanks the more to that grain of mustard seed (Matth. xiii. 31, 32), for that from what appeared a small and despicable seed it has been so spread abroad everywhere by branches rising and extending themselves from the same root that all the birds of heaven may make their nests in them.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“And He spake many things unto them in parables, saying;” and so on, down to the words, “Therefore every scribe which is instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 1–52.
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John Chrysostom
“Therefore He brought forward the similitude of this herb, which has a very strong resemblance to the subject in hand; “Which indeed is the least,” He saith, “of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31, 32. [R.V., “is less than all,” “is greater than.”]
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Jerome
“We have learned how a camel can pass through a needle’s eye, how an animal with a hump on its back, when it has laid down its packs, can take to itself the wings of a dove and rest in the branches of the tree which has grown from a grain of mustard seed.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31, 32.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This, he says, is the kingdom of heaven, the grain of mustard seed, the point which is indivisible in the body; and, he says, no one knows this (point) save the spiritual only.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31, 32; Mark iv. 31, 32; Luke xiii. 19.
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Cross-references · 10
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Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.