Matthew 13:29
Douay-Rheims
And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.
Jerome
For room for repentance is left, and we are warned that we should not hastily cut off a brother, since one who is to-day corrupted with an erroneous dogma, may grow wiser tomorrow, and begin to defend the truth; wherefore it is added, Lest in gathering together the tares ye root out the wheat also.
Source details
A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 13:24-30
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.