Matthew 6:28
Douay-Rheims
And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.
Augustine of Hippo
(Serm. in Mont. ii. 15.) The things instanced are not to be allegorized so that we enquire what is denoted by the birds of the air, or the lilies of the field; they are only examples to prove God’s care for the greater from His care for the less.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:28-30
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.