Matthew 4:22 Douay-Rheims

And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him.

John Chrysostom (attributed)

Patristic

There are three things which we must leave who would come to Christ; carnal actions, which are signified in the fishing nets; worldly substance, in the ship; parents, which are signified in their father. They left their own vessel, that they might become governors of the vessel of the Church; they left their nets, as having no longer to draw out fishes on to the earthly shore, but men to the heavenly; they left their father, that they might become the spiritual fathers of all.

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as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:18-22

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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