Matthew 13:52 (WEB)
He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
Catechism · 1
“As she has done for the canon of Sacred Scripture and for the doctrine of the faith, the Church, by the power of the Spirit who guides her "into all truth," has gradually recognized this treasure received from Christ and, as the faithful steward of God's mysteries, has determined its "dispensation."” — Catechism footnote: ⇒ Jn 16:13; cf. Mt 13:52; 1 Cor 4:1.
Fathers and councils · 16
Irenaeus of Lyons
“All things therefore are of one and the same substance, that is, from one and the same God; as also the Lord says to the disciples “Therefore every scribe, which is instructed unto 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. 52.
Read the whole comment“And the disciple will be perfected, and [rendered] like the householder, “who bringeth forth from his treasure things new and old.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 52. [I must express my delight in the great principle of exposition here unfolded. The Old Scriptures are a night-bound wilderness, till Christ…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…from it things new and old;’ and who ‘meditate on the words of the Lord, when sitting in the house, when lying down or rising up, and when walking by the way;’—since they are of good hope because of the promise of the Spirit which said, ‘Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor…” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 52; Deut. vi. 7.
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John Chrysostom
““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. 52.
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Tertullian
“And it will not, then, be, in the eyes of the apostle, the differentiating principle—distinguishing (as he is doing) “things new and old”—which will be ridiculous; but (in this case too) it will be your own unfairness, while you taunt us with the form of antiquity all the while you are laying…” — editor's note: Comp. Matt. xiii. 52 ad fin.
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Augustine of Hippo
“On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 52, “Therefore every scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of Heaven,” etc.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This order Jesus Christ Himself directs us to observe, saying, “The scribe instructed in the kingdom of God is like a good householder, bringing out of his treasure things new and old.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 52.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
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When the multitude had departed, the Lord spoke to His disciples in parables, by which they were instructed only so far as they understood them; wherefore He asks them, “Have ye understood all these things? They say…
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For this is spoken especially to the Apostles, whom He would have not to hear only as the multitude, but to understand as having to teach others.
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Then He praises them because they had understood; He saith unto them; “Therefore every Scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like unto an householder who bringeth out of his treasure things new and old.”
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He said not ‘old and new,’ as He surely would have said had He not preferred to preserve the order of value rather than of time. But the Manichaeans while they think they should keep only the new promises of God,…
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By this conclusion, whether did He desire to shew Aug. whom He intended by the treasure hid in the field — in which case we might understand the Holy Scriptures to be here meant, the two Testaments by the things new…
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But if by things “new and old” in this passage we understand the two Testaments, we deny Abraham to have been learned, who although he knew indeed some deeds of the Old Testament, yet had not read the words. Neither…
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Speaking to His disciples, He calls them Scribes on account of their knowledge, because they understood the things that He brought forward, both new and old, that is from the Law and from the Gospels; both being of…
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Or the Apostles are called Scribes instructed, as being the Saviour’s notaries who wrote His words and precepts on fleshly tables of the heart with the sacraments of the heavenly kingdom, and abounded in the wealth…
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Otherwise; The things old are, that the human race for its sin should suffer in eternal punishment; the things new, that they should be converted and live in the kingdom, First, He brought forward a comparison of the…
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 14.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 14.
Cited together in Catechism §1117.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in The City of God XX.4.
Cited together in The City of God XX.4.
Cited together in The City of God XX.4.
Cited together in Catechism §1117.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 14.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 24.