Romans 12:15 (WEB)
Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
Fathers and councils · 12
Ambrose of Milan
“And yet you ought to mourn for the world but to rejoice in the Lord, to be sad for penitence but joyful for grace, though, too, the teacher of the Gentiles by a wholesome precept has bidden to weep with them that weep, and to rejoice with them that do rejoice.” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 15.
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Gregory of Nyssa
““Rejoice with them that do rejoice.”” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 15.
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John Chrysostom
“Therefore Paul exhorteth us to “Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep” ( Rom. xii. 15 ), that on either hand we may reap great profit.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“He helped the poor, visited the sick, stirred men up to hospitality, soothed them with soft words, rejoiced with those who rejoiced and wept with those who wept.” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 15.
Read the whole comment“In this way, it is prophetically implied, you will fulfil the apostolic precept: “rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep,” and by your tears you will melt the hard hearts of sinners till they too weep; whereas, if they persist in evil doing they will find these words applied to…” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 15.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For the divine Apostle charges us to weep with them that weep and rejoice with them that do rejoice.” — editor's note: Romans xii. 15. Observe the inversion.
Read the whole comment“How indeed could I fail to suffer, making as I do your interest mine, and remembering the apostolic law which bids us not only “rejoice with them that do rejoice, but also weep with them that weep”?” — editor's note: Romans xii. 15
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Leo the Great
“…of repentance, we do not judge to be outcasts from the unspeakable mercy of God: but rather we lament with those that lament, “we weep with those that weep,” and obey the requirements of justice in deposing without neglecting the remedies of loving-kindness: and this, as your piety knows, is not a mere…” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 15.
Read the whole comment“…the ruins of cheated souls, carrying out the Apostles’ example of loving-kindness, so as to be weak with those that are weak and to “weep with those that weep.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 29; Rom. xii. 15.
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Tertullian
“But those conclaves first, by the operations of Stations and fastings, know what it is “to grieve with the grieving,” and thus at last “to rejoice in company with the rejoicing.”” — editor's note: See Rom. xii. 15.
Read the whole comment““To rejoice with the rejoicing, and grieve with the grieving,” is said about brethren by the apostle when exhorting to unanimity.” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…for the prize of his high calling,—very joyfully do we with the eyes of faith behold him rejoicing with them that rejoice, and weeping with them that weep; though hampered by fightings without and fears within; desiring to depart and to be with Christ; longing to see the Romans, that he might have some fruit among…” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 15.
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Cross-references · 16
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Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 137.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.