Matthew 6:27 (WEB)
“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
Catechism · 2
The Tenth Commandment
“Abandonment to the providence of the Father in heaven frees us from anxiety about tomorrow.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 6:25-34.
The Seven Petitions
“In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus insists on the filial trust that cooperates with our Father's providence.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 6:25-34.
Fathers and councils · 19
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.24Book VII
“Consider the lilies of the field;”—these precepts, and those which follow, are not inconsistent with the promised blessings of the law, which teaches that the just “shall eat their bread to the…” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 25–28.
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John Chrysostom
““Which of you can add one cubit unto his stature?”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 27.
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Jerome
“Let us “take no thought for the morrow: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 25, 27, 34.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 25–34
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Tertullian
“What if a man allege “indigence,” so as to profess that his flesh is openly prostituted, and given in marriage for the sake of maintenance; forgetting that there is to be no careful thought about food and clothing?” — editor's note: See Matt. vi. 25–34.
Read the whole comment“It has been pronounced that no one can add to his own stature.” — editor's note: Mensuram. See Matt. vi. 27.
Read the whole comment“In the same way, with their high shoes, he has made the tragic actors taller, because “none can add a cubit to his stature.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 27.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Having confirmed our hope by this arguing from the greater to the less, He next confirms it by an argument from less to greater, “Behold the fowls of the air, they sow not, neither do they reap.”
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Some argue that they ought not to labour, because the fowls of the air neither sow nor reap. Why then do they not attend to that which follows, “neither gather into barns? Why do they seek to have their hands idle,…
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Ye are of more value, because a rational animal, such as man is, is higher in the scale of nature than an irrational, such as are the birds of the air.
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Indeed a higher price is often given for a horse than a slave, for a jewel than for a waiting maid, but this not from reasonable valuation, but from the need of the person requiring, or rather from his pleasure…
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For God created all animals for man, but man for himself; therefore by how much the more precious is the creation of man, so much the greater is God’s care for him. If then the birds without toiling find food, shall…
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There be some who, seeking to go beyond the limits of their fathers, and to soar into the air, sink into the deep and are drowned. These will have the birds of the air to mean the Angels, and the other powers in the…
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It may be said, that under the name of birds, He exhorts us by the example of the unclean spirits, to whom, without any trouble of their own in seeking and collecting it, provision of life is given by the power of…
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He teaches us not only by the instance of the birds, but adds a further proof, that to our being and life our own care is not enough, but Divine Providence therein works; saying, “Which of you by taking thought can…
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For it is God who day by day works the growth of your body, yourself not feeling it. If then the Providence of God works thus daily in your very body, how shall that same Providence withhold from working in…
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Or it may be connected with what follows it; as though He should say, It was not by our care that our body was brought to its present stature; so that we may know that if we desired to add one cubit to it, we should…
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Otherwise; As by the example of the spirits He had fixed our faith in the supply of food for our lives, so now by a decision of common understanding He cuts off all anxiety about supply of clothing. Seeing that He it…
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But if Christ rose again with the same stature with which He died, it is impious to say that when the time of the resurrection of all shall come, there shall be added to His body a bigness that it had not at His own…
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Catechism §2547.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 6:26–27 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 6:26–27 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.24.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.24.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.24.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.24.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 6:26–27 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.24.