Philippians 4:7 (WEB)
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Catechism · 1
“It is with this confidence that St. James and St. Paul exhort us to pray at all times.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jas 1:5-8; Eph 5:20; Phil 4:6-7; Col 3:16-17; 1 Thess 5:17-18.
Fathers and councils · 12
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.10Conference XIII
“For Holy Scripture supports the freedom of the will where it says: “Keep thy heart with all diligence,” but the Apostle indicates its weakness by saying “The Lord keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7.
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Ambrose of Milan
“It is above Powers, above Angels, above Cherubim, Seraphim, and all that has feeling and thought, for it is written: “The peace of Christ, which passeth all understanding.”” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7. The better-known version “The peace of God” is supported by stronger ms. authority.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Gregory of NazianzusCatena Aurea on Luke
“Peace both in name and reality is sweet, which also we have heard to be of God, as it is said, The peace of God; (Phil. 4:7.) and that God is of it, as He is our peace.” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“For if “the peace of God surpasseth all understanding” ( Philip. iv. 7 ), and “the things which are prepared for them that love Him have not entered into the heart of man” ( 1 Cor. ii. 9 ); much more He Himself, the God of peace, the Creator of all things, doth by a wide measure exceed our reasoning.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“For “it passeth all understanding;” it is the habitation of God.” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7.
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Tertullian
“For what sort of deed is it to approach the peace of God without peace? the remission of debts while you retain them?” — editor's note: Perhaps there may be an allusion to Phil. iv. 6, 7.
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Basil the Great
“Whence then could we get demonstrations of the dignity of the Spirit, “passing all understanding,” if His communion with the Father and the Son were not reckoned by our opponents as good for testimony of His rank?” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7.
Read the whole comment“…weakness, in that we are powerless to express in words our gratitude for the benefits which we are actually receiving; for He “passes all understanding,” and convicts speech of its natural inability even to approach His dignity in the least degree; as it is written in the Book of Wisdom, “Exalt Him as much as…” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“From a kingdom of this sort brought to a condition of thorough peace and order, the prince of this world is cast out, who rules where there is perversity and disorder.” — editor's note: The “peacemakers” not only establish peace within themselves as Augustin, encouraged by the Latin word, explains, but diffuse peace around about them,—heal the…
Read the whole comment“For then shall be that “peace of God which,” as the apostle says, “passeth all understanding,”—that is to say, all human, and perhaps all angelic understanding, but certainly not the divine.” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7.
Read the whole comment“This peace, as Scripture saith, “passeth all understanding,” and cannot be known by us until we have come into the full possession of it.” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“As to what concerns us, it is not only the Peace of God which passeth all understanding and knowledge, nor only the things which God hath stored up in promise for the righteous, which “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor mind conceived” except in a very small degree, nor the accurate knowledge of the Creation.” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 7.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.2.
Cited together in Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2633.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.2.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 63.
Cited together in Gregory of Nazianzus on Luke 24:36–40 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2633.