Matthew 10:30 — Community Reflections

MATTHEW 10:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”

But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. The comprehensive divine knowledge of the disciples extends to the number of their hairs — the most trivial detail of personal physicality, changing daily, unknown even to the disciples themselves. The Father who numbers the hairs of the disciples' heads is the Father who cannot be caught off guard by whatever happens to them. The point is not that the Father prevents every bad thing (sparrows do fall) but that nothing happens outside his knowledge and purpose.

Church Fathers on Matthew 10:30

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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