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MATTHEW 10:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 10:28Matt 10:30
“Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.”
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. The Father's comprehensive knowledge and care extends to sparrows — birds of minimal economic value (two for a penny). Not one falls without the Father's knowing. Luke 12:6 has five sparrows for two pennies — the fifth is thrown in free, yet the Father knows even that one. The argument is again a fortiori: if the Father's knowledge and care extends to sparrows of such low economic value, the disciples of far greater value are certainly within the Father's comprehensive attention.

Church Fathers on Matthew 10:29

Having set aside fear of death, that the Apostles should not think that if they were put to death they were deserted by God, He passes to discourse of God’s providence, saying, 'Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and one of them does not fall to the ground without your Father?'

Chrysostom · 4th century

If these little creations fall not without God’s superintendence and providence, and if things made to perish, perish not without God’s will, you who are immortal ought not to fear that you live without His providence.

Jerome · 4th century

Figuratively; That which is sold is our soul and body, and that to which it is sold, is sin. They then who sell two sparrows for a farthing, are they who sell themselves for the smallest sin, born for flight, and for reaching heaven with spiritual wings. [margin note: see Ps 124:7] C aug ht by the bait of present pleasures, and sold to the enjoyment of the world, they barter away their whole selves in such a market. It is of the will of God that one of them rather soar aloft;…

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century
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