Matthew 5:9 (WEB)
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Catechism · 2
Our Vocation to Beatitude
“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.” — Catechism footnote: Mt 5:3-12.
The Fifth Commandment
“He has declared: "Blessed are the peacemakers."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 5:9.
Fathers and councils · 37
Augustine of Hippo
“And Alypius, beginning again to hear me, was involved in the same superstition as I was, loving in the Manichæans that ostentation of continency which he believed to be true and unfeigned.” — editor's note: Augustin, in book v. sec. 9, above, refers to the reputed sanctity of Manichæus, and it may well be questioned whether the sect deserved that unmitigated…
Read the whole comment“…us, that we may be poor in spirit, and meek, and mourners, and hungering and athirst after righteousness, and merciful, and pure in heart, and peacemakers.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–9.
Read the whole comment“…they that mourn, blessed they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, blessed the merciful, blessed the pure in heart, blessed the peacemakers.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–9.
Read the whole comment“For, “Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the children of God.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
Read the whole comment““Blessed are the poor in spirit;” imitate Him, Who, whereas “He was rich, was made poor for your sakes.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–10
Read the whole comment“If it is wisdom through which the peacemakers are blessed, inasmuch as they shall be called the children of God; let us pray that we may be freed from evil, for that very freedom will make us free, i.e. sons of God, so that we may cry in the spirit of adoption, “Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–9.
Read the whole comment““Blessed,” therefore, “are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
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Gregory the Great
“Where is that which is written, Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God (Matth. v. 9)?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For it is written, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God (Matth. v. 9).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Let sowers of strifes hear what is written, Blessed are the peacemakers, far they shall be called the children of God (Matth. v. 9).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
““Blessed are the peace-makers.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
“And the voice of the Lord from heaven is directed to us the beloved of God; “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God;” [Matt. 5:9] and then the Father, with the Son and the Holy Spirit, is well-pleased with us, when we are made one spirit with God.” — the author cites it
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“But the name of son of God is obtained by peace and loving one’s enemy; for, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the sons of God. [Matt 5:9] And, Love your enemies, that ye may be the sons of God. [see Matt 5:44-45]” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Your letter shews you to possess that heritage of the Lord of which when going to the Father he said to the apostles, “peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you,” and to own the happiness described in the words, “blessed are the peace-makers.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
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Tertullian
“For which reason the “peace-making” apostle, for fear he should seem to claim all gifts for himself, says that he had been sent “not to baptize, but to preach.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9; referred to in de Patien. c. ii.
Read the whole comment“And so it will be becoming for ‘the sons of God’ too to be ‘pitiful-hearted’ and ‘peacemakers;’ ‘giving in their turn just as Christ withal hath given to us;’ ‘not judging, that we be not judged.’” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
Read the whole comment“Either to all these will it be thy duty so to be, for “blessed are the peacemakers;” or else, if not to all, it will be thy duty to range thyself on our side.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
Read the whole comment“Again, when He marks “the peacemakers” with the same title of felicity, and names them “sons of God,” pray have the impatient any affinity with “peace?”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
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Cyprian of Carthage
““Blessed,” says He, “are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the sons of God.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
Read the whole comment“Also in the same place: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
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Aphrahat
“Whosoever wishes to make peace, shall be one of the sons of God.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
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Leo the Great
“Furthermore, as the Lord says, that “the peacemakers are blessed, because they shall be called sons of God,” let all discords and enmities be laid aside, and let no one think to have a share in the Paschal feast that has neglected to restore brotherly peace.” — editor's note: S. Matt. v. 9.
Read the whole comment“A Homily on the Beatitudes, St. Matt. v. 1–9” — the author cites it
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Second Council of Nicaea (787)
“…of conduct tending to peace; wherefore, preaching to all, he saith in the Gospel, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God (Matt. v. 9).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“And truly “blessed are the peace-makers,” who instructing those who are at war in their life and errors here, lead them back to the peace which is in the Word, and nourish for the life which is according to God, by the distribution of the bread, those “that hunger after righteousness.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
Read the whole comment““Blessed, then, are the peacemakers,” who have subdued and tamed the law which wars against the disposition of the mind, the menaces of anger, and the baits of lust, and the other passions which…” — editor's note: [Matt. v. 9. S].
Read the whole comment““Even if thy right eye offend thee,” quickly “cut it out.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 9.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Matthew
When you have made your inward parts clean from every spot of sin, that dissentions and contentions may not proceed from your temper, begin peace within yourself, that so you may extend it to others.
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Peace is the fixedness of order; by order, I mean an arrangement of things like and unlike giving to each its own place. And as there is no man who would not willingly have joy, so is there no man who would not have…
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The peacemakers [margin note: pacifici] are pronounced blessed, they namely who make peace first within their own hearts, then between brethren at variance. For what avails it to make peace between others, while in…
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The peacemakers within themselves are they who having stilled all disturbances of their spirits, having subjected them to reason, have overcome their carnal desires, and become the kingdom of God. There all things…
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No man can attain in this life that there be not in his members a law resisting the law of his mind. But the peacemakers attain thus far by overcoming the lusts of the flesh, that in time they come to a most perfect…
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The peacemakers with others are not only those who reconcile enemies, but those who unmindful of wrongs cultivate peace. That peace only is blessed which is lodged in the heart, and does not consist only in words.…
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The blessedness of the peacemakers is the reward of adoption, “they shall be called the sons of God.” For God is our common parent, and no other way can we pass into His family than by living in brotherly love together.
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Or, if the peacemakers are they who do not contend one with another, but reconcile those that are at strife, they are rightly called the sons of God, seeing this was the chief employment of the Only-begotten Son, to…
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Or, because peace is then perfect when there is no where any opposition, the peacemakers are called the sons of God, because nothing resists God, and the children ought to bear the likeness of their Father.
Read the whole comment - Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
The peacemakers have thus the place of highest honour, inasmuch as he who is called the king’s son, is the highest in the king’s house. This beatitude is placed the seventh in order, because in the sabbath shall be…
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Cross-references · 34
Cited together in Confessions XI.1.
Cited together in Confessions VI.7.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:9–11 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:9–11 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.24.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 13.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 13.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 13.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 13.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 13.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Catechism §2305 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §2305.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 3:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2305.
Cited together in Catechism §2305.
Cited together in Catechism §2305.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.24.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.24.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 3:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions XI.1.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 11.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.24.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.24.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.24.
Cited together in Confessions VI.7.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 3:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2305.