Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Matthew 23:4
There are 6 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 476, footnote 4 (Image)
Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus
Irenæus (HTML)
Against Heresies: Book IV (HTML)
Chapter XII.—It clearly appears that there was but one author of both the old and the new law, from the fact that Christ condemned traditions and customs repugnant to the former, while He confirmed its most important precepts, and taught that He was Himself the end of the Mosaic law. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3941 (In-Text, Margin)
... away with this [God], when He shows that the law was not derived from another God, expressing Himself as follows to those who were being instructed by Him, to the multitude and to His disciples: “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens, and lay them upon men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not so much as move them with a finger.”[Matthew 23:2-4] He therefore did not throw blame upon that law which was given by Moses, when He exhorted it to be observed, Jerusalem being as yet in safety; but He did throw blame upon those persons, because they repeated indeed the words of the law, yet ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 490, footnote 2 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)
Book VI (HTML)
Chapter VI.—The Gospel Was Preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades. (HTML)
... heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee. And I have given thee for a Covenant to the nations; that thou mightest inhabit the earth, and receive the inheritance of the wilderness; saying to those that are in bonds, Come forth; and to those that are in darkness, Show yourselves.” For if the “prisoners” are the Jews, of whom the Lord said, “Come forth, ye that will, from your bonds,”—meaning the voluntary bound, and who have taken on them “ the burdens grievous to be borne ”[Matthew 23:4] by human injunction—it is plain that “those in darkness” are they who have the ruling faculty of the soul buried in idolatry.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 105, footnote 8 (Image)
Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen
The Diatessaron of Tatian. (HTML)
The Diatessaron. (HTML)
Section XL. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2748 (In-Text, Margin)
[26, 27] Then spake Jesus unto the multitudes and his disciples, and said unto them, On [28] [Arabic, p. 152] the seat of Moses are seated the scribes and Pharisees: everything that they say unto you now to keep, keep and do: but according to their deeds [29] do ye not; for they say, and do not.[Matthew 23:4] And they bind heavy burdens, and lay them on the shoulders of the people; while they with one of their fingers will not come [30, 31] near them. But all their deeds they do to make a shew before men. And all the multitude were hearing that with pleasure.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 6, page 520, footnote 3 (Image)
Augustine: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels
Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament. (HTML)
The tenth chapter of the Gospel of John. Of the shepherd, and the hireling, and the thief. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 4099 (In-Text, Margin)
... mouths, went on, and said, “They sit in Moses’ seat; what they say, do; but what they do, do not; for they say, and do not.” What is it then, Brethren? If He had spoken of offering sacrifice; would He have said, “For they say, and do not”? For they do offer sacrifice, they do offer unto God. What is it that they say, and do not? Hear what follows; “For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders, and they themselves will not touch them with one of their fingers.”[Matthew 23:4] So openly did He rebuke, describe, and point them out. But those men when they thus wish to pervert the passage, show plainly that they seek nothing in the Church but their own advantage; and that they have not read the Gospel; for had they known ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 258, footnote 1 (Image)
Basil: Letters and Select Works
The Letters. (HTML)
To Amphilochius, the Canons. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2843 (In-Text, Margin)
LXXIV. If, however, each man who has committed the former sins is made good, through penitence, he to whom is com mitted by the loving-kindness of God the power of loosing and binding[Matthew 23:4] will not be deserving of condemnation, if he become less severe, as he beholds the exceeding greatness of the penitence of the sinner, so as to lessen the period of punishment, for the history in the Scriptures informs us that all who exercise penitence with greater zeal quickly receive the loving-kindness of God.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 439, footnote 6 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVII. (HTML)
Conference XIV. The First Conference of Abbot Nesteros. On Spiritual Knowledge. (HTML)
Chapter IX. How from practical knowledge we must proceed to spiritual. (HTML)
... to keep to this order, as of Him it is said: “what Jesus began to do and to teach.” Take care then that you do not rush into teaching before doing, and so be reckoned among the number of those of whom the Lord speaks in the gospel to the disciples: “What they say unto you, that observe and do, but not after their words: for they say and do not. But they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.”[Matthew 23:3-4] For if he who shall “break one of these commands, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven,” it follows that one who has dared to despise many and greater commands and to teach men so, shall certainly be considered not ...