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
(De Civ. Dei, xi. 16.) Indeed a higher price is often given for a horse than a slave, for a jewel than for a waiting maid, but this not from reasonable valuation, but from the need of the person requiring, or rather from his pleasure desiring it.
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.