Numbers 15:39 (WEB)
It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all the LORD’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;
Fathers and councils · 2
John Chrysostom
“…to do, “to sew a ribbon of blue on their garments, upon the fringe that hung round their feet, that they might look at it, and remember the commandments;”and they were called “borders.”” — editor's note: Numb. xv. 38, 39. [The passage is freely given from the LXX.]
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Moses had in another place given command that they should make fringes of blue in the borders of their garments, [marg. note: Num 15:39] to distinguish the people of Israel; that as in their bodies circumcision, so in their garments the fringe, might discriminate the Jewish nation.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 23:5–12 (Catena Aurea).