Mark 4:3 Douay-Rheims

Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow.

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

(ubi sup.) Not that He went out in space, Who is present in all space, and fills all, but in the form and economy by which He is made more near to us through the clothing of flesh. For since we were not able to go to Him, because sins impeded our path, He went out to us. But He went out, preaching in order to sow the word of piety, which He spake abundantly. Now He does not needlessly repeat the same word, when He says, A sower went out to sow, for sometimes a sower goes out that he may break up land for tillage, or to pull up weeds, or for some other work. But this one went out to sow.

Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 4:1-20

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

Read Mark 4:3 in context →