“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
Matthew 6:26 — Greek Interlinear
Church Fathers on Matthew 6:26
Having confirmed our hope by this arguing from the greater to the less, He next confirms it by an argument from less to greater, 'Behold the fowls of the air, they sow not, neither do they reap.'
Some argue that they ought not to labour, because the fowls of the air neither sow nor reap. Why then do they not attend to that which follows, 'neither gather into barns? Why do they seek to have their hands idle, and their storehouses full? Why indeed do they grind corn, and dress it? For this do not the birds.
There be some who, seeking to go beyond the limits of their fathers, and to soar into the air, sink into the deep and are drowned. These will have the birds of the air to mean the Angels, and the other powers in the ministry of God, who without any care of their own are fed by God’s providence.