Matthew 13:7 (WEB)
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Catechism · 2
Our Vocation to Beatitude
“By the working of the Word of Christ, we slowly bear fruit in the Church to the glory of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. the parable of the sower: Mt 13:3-23.
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“The parables are like mirrors for man: will he be hard soil or good earth for the word?” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 13:3-9.
Fathers and councils · 34
Augustine of Hippo
“But the barren earth was grieved, and the thorns choked the word.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 7, 22.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“Yesterday we read of that sower, who when he scattered seed, “some fell by the way side,” which the birds picked up; “some in stony places,” which dried up from the heat; “some among thorns, which were choked,” and could not bring forth fruit; and…” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 3–8.
Read the whole comment“But if, in return for good seed and good rain, you bring forth not fruit but thorns, the seed will not be blamed, nor will the rain be in fault; but for thorns due fire is prepared.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 3–25.
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John Chrysostom
“Who hath ears to hear let him hear.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 5–9. [The Greek text here differs slightly from that of the New Testament passage, as well as from the accounts of Mark and Luke.—R.]
Read the whole comment“And she being before instructed ofher mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 6–8.
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Jerome
“The “thorns” which choke our faith are the taking thought for our life.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 7, 22.
Read the whole comment“Mary is “a garden enclosed…a fountain sealed,” and from that fountain flows, according to Joel, the river which waters the torrent bed either of cords or of thorns; of cords being those of the sins by which we were beforetime bound, the thorns those which choked the seed the goodman of the house had sown.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Since then these things are so, and we have broken up for ourselves the fallows of Divinity, so as not to sow upon thorns, and have made plain the face of the ground, being moulded and moulding others by Holy Scripture…let us now enter upon Theological questions, setting at the…” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 7.
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Aphrahat
“Whosoever receives the good seed, let him purge his land from thorns.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 7.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Who hath ears,” he says, “to hear, let him hear.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 3–9; Mark iv. 3–9; Luke viii. 5–8.
Read the whole comment“And these (heretics) suppose that this is what is spoken by the Saviour: “A sower went forth to sow; and that which fell on the fair and good ground produced, some a hundred-fold, and some sixty-fold, and some thirty-fold.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 3–8; Mark iv. 3–8; Luke viii. 5–8.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
When He had rebuked him that told Him of His mother and His brethren, He then did according to their request; He departed out of the house, having first corrected His brethren for their weak desire of vainglory; He…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
By the words, “The same day,” he sufficiently shews that these things either followed immediately upon what had gone before, or that many things could not have intervened; unless indeed ‘day’ here after the Scripture…
Read the whole comment - Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
For not only the Lord’s words and actions, but His journeyings also, and the places in which He works His mighty works and preaches, are full of heavenly sacraments. After the discourse held in the house, wherein…
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For it must be considered, that the multitude could not enter into the house to Jesus, nor be there where the Apostles heard mysteries; therefore the Lord in mercy to them departed out of the house, and sat near the…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
The Evangelist did not relate this without a purpose, but that he might shew the Lord’s will therein, who desired so to place the people that He should have none behind Him, but all should be before His face.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
There is moreover a reason in the subject of His discourse why the Lord should sit in the ship, and the multitude stand on the shore. For He was about to speak in parables, and by this action signifies that they who…
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Jesus is in the midst of the waves; He is beaten to and fro by the waves, and, secure in His majesty, causes His vessel to come nigh the land, that the people not being in danger, not being surrounded by temptations…
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Or, that He went into a ship and sat on the sea, signifies that Christ by faith should enter into the hearts of the Gentiles, and should gather together the Church in the sea, that is in the midst of the nations that…
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He had not done thus on the mount; He had not framed His discourse by parables. For there were the multitudes only, and a mixed crowd; but here the Scribes and Pharisees. But He speaks in parables not for this reason…
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And it is to be noted, that He spake not all things to them in parables, but “many things,” for had He spoken all things in parables, the people would have departed without benefit. He mingles things plain with…
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He first sets forth a parable to make His hearers more attentive; and because He was about to speak enigmatically, He attracts the attention by this first parable, saying, “Behold, a sower went forth to sow his seed.”
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By this sower is typified the Son of God, who sows among the people the word of the Father.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Whence then went out He who is every where present, and how went He out! Not in place; but by His incarnation being brought nearer to us by the garb of the flesh. Forasmuch as we because of our sins could not enter…
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Or, He event forth, when having left Judaea, He passed by the Apostles to the Gentiles.
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or, He was within while He was yet in the house, and spake sacraments to His disciples. He went therefore forth from the house, that He might sow seed among the multitudes.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
When you hear the words, “the sower went out to sow,” do not suppose that is a tautology. For the sower goes out oftentimes for other ends; as, to break up the ground, to pluck up noxious weeds, to root up thorns, or…
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This parable Valentinus lays hold of to establish his heresy, bringing in three different natures; the spiritual, the natural or the animal, and the earthly. But there are here four named, one by the wayside, one…
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Next, how is it according to reason to sow seed among thorns, or on stony ground, or by the wayside? Indeed in the material seed and soil of this world it would not be reasonable; for it is impossible that rock…
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Note that this is the first parable that has been given with its interpretation, and we must beware where the Lord expounds His own teaching that we do not presume to understand any thing either more or less, or any…
Read the whole comment - Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
But those things which He silently left to our understanding, should be shortly noticed. The wayside is the mind trodden and hardened by the continual passage of evil thoughts; the rock, the hardness of the…
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And we are excited to the understanding of His words, by the advice which follows, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
Read the whole comment - Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
These care to hear, are ears of the mind, to understand namely and do those things which are commanded.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Matthew 13:1–9 (7) (Catena Aurea).