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.

John Chrysostom (attributed)

Patristic

For lilies within a fixed time are formed into branches, clothed in whiteness, and endowed with sweet odour, God conveying by an unseen operation, what the earth had not given to the root. But in all the same perfectness is observed, that they may not be thought to have been formed by chance, but may be known to be ordered by God’s providence. When He says, They toil not, He speaks for the comfort of men; Neither do they spin, for the women.

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as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:28-30

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

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