Micah 6:8 (WEB)
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Fathers and councils · 11
Jerome
“vi. 8.” — the author cites it
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.1Book III
“…O man, what is good, or what the Lord requires of thee, except that thou shouldst do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord thy God.”” — editor's note: Mic. vi. 8.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis III.2Book III
“…prove when he says: “If it has been announced to thee, O man, what is good, or what does the Lord require of thee, except to do justice and to love mercy?”” — editor's note: Mic. vi. 8.
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John Chrysostom
“…glorify Me” ( Ps. l. 23 ), and, “the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit” ( Ps. li. 17 ); and “what doth the Lord require of thee but” to hearken to Him? ( Mic. vi. 8.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…the stress on their sacrifices; which thing He is also earnestly intimating unto them, when He sets down in brief what had been affirmed by all the prophets,saying, “Learn ye what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.”” — editor's note: See Hosea vi. 6; Ps. l. 8–15; Prov. xxi. 3; Isa. i. 11–15; Micah vi. 6, 7, 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And now what is required of thee in return for all this, but to do judgment and justice, to love mercy, and to be ready to walk with the Lord thy God?” — editor's note: Mic. vi. 8.
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Tertullian
““But,” say they, “God is ‘good,’ and ‘most good,’ and ‘pitiful-hearted,’ and ‘a pitier,’ and ‘abundant in pitiful-heartedness,’ which He holds ‘dearer than all sacrifice,’ ‘not thinking the sinner’s death of so much worth as his repentance’, ‘a Saviour of all men, most of all of believers.’” — editor's note: Hos. vi. 6; Mic. vi. 8; Matt. ix. 13; xii. 7.
Read the whole comment“He may likewise be discovered in the following passage of Micah, saying: “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to be ready to follow the Lord thy God?”” — editor's note: Mic. vi. 8. The last clause agrees with the Septuagint: καὶ ἕτοιμον εἶναι τοῦ πορεύεσθαι μετὰ Κυρίου Θεοῦ σου.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“For this the Lord requires of thee, according to the Prophet, that “thou be careful to walk with the Lord thy God.” [Mic 6:8]” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Hath He showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”” — editor's note: Micah vi. 6–8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The voice of the Lord shall be invoked in the city, and He will save those who fear His name.”” — editor's note: Mic. vi. 6–9.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 20:29–34 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 20:29–34 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 20:29–34 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 20:29–34 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 20:29–34 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.