Matthew 6:26
Douay-Rheims
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
Augustine of Hippo
(Serm. in Mont. ii. 15.) Ye are of more value, because a rational animal, such as man is, is higher in the scale of nature than an irrational, such as are the birds of the air.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:26-27
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.