Matthew 15:13 (WEB)
But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
Fathers and councils · 21
Cyprian of Carthage
“Such indeed, with the Lord’s help, we trust may return by His mercy, for one cannot perish unless it is plain that he must perish, since the Lord in His Gospel says, “Every planting which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Thou hast the words of eternal life; and we believe, and are sure that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God:” signifying, doubtless, and showing that those who departed from Christ perished by their own fault, yet that the Church which believes on Christ, and holds…” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Especially, since He further repeats, and says, “Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 13.
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Gregory the Great
“Let them alone; they be blind, and leaders of the blind (Ibid.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
Chapter XLVIII.—Of the Absence of Any Discrepancy Between Matthew and Mark on the One Hand, and John on the Other, in the Accounts Which the Three Give Together of What Took Place After the Other Side of the Lake Was…
Read the whole comment“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,” etc. What is clearer than this explanation?” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 10–20
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John Chrysostom
“He did not remove the offense in respect of them, but reproved them, saying, “Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 13.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…to which the Lord refers in the Gospels when He curses the other kind of planting and says: Every planting that My Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.” — editor's note: St. Matt. xv. 13.
Read the whole comment“…to charge Him with presumption because He calls God His Father, as when He says, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up, or, Ye have made my Father’s house an house of merchandise.” — editor's note: Ib. xv. 13.
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Leo the Great
“In fine, let “every plant which the heavenly Father hath not planted be removed by the roots.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. xv. 13.
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Tertullian
““The Lord (beholdeth and) knoweth them that are His;” and “the plant which (my heavenly Father) hath not planted, He rooteth up;” and “the first shall,” as He shows, “be last;” and He carries “His fan in His hand to purge His threshing-floor.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 13.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
In one of the Lord’s discourses the whole superstition of Jewish observances had been cut down. They placed their whole religion in using or abstaining from certain meats.
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When the Pharisees heard the things that went before, they made no reply to them, because He had so mightily overthrown them, not only refuting their arguments, but detecting their fraud, but they, not the…
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As this word ‘scandalum’ (offence or stumblingblock) is of such frequent use in ecclesiastical writings, we will shortly explain it. We might render it in Latin, ‘offendiculum,’ or ‘ruina,’ or ‘impactio;’ and so when…
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Christ does not remove the stumblingblock out of the way of the Pharisees, but rather rebukes them; as it follows, “But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.”…
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What He intends then by a plant not planted of His Father, is that tradition of men under cover of which the Law had been transgressed, this He instructs them must be rooted up.
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Every false doctrine and superstitious observance with the workers thereof cannot endure; and because it is not from God the Father, it shall be rooted up with the same. And that only shall endure which is of God.
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Shall that plant also be rooted up of which the Apostle says, “I planted, Apollos watered?” [1 Cor 3:6] The question is answered by what follows, “but God gave the increase.” He says also, “Ye are God’s husbandry, a…
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Or, the plant here spoken of may be the doctors of the Law with their followers, who had not Christ for their foundation. Why they are to be rooted up, He adds, “Let them alone; they are blind, leaders of the blind.”
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They are blind, that is, they want the light of God’s commandments; and they are “leaders of the blind,” inasmuch as they draw others headlong, erring, and leading into error; whence it is added, “If the blind lead…
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This is also the same as that Apostolic injunction, “A heretic after the first and second admonition reject, knowing that such a one is perverse.” [Tit 3:11-11] To the same end the Saviour commands evil teachers to…
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 15:12–14 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Epistles Letter 48.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 48.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 15:12–14 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 15:12–14 (3) (Catena Aurea).