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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Fear ye not therefore; ye are of more value than many sparrows." Seest thou that the fear had already prevailed over them? Yea, for He knew the secrets of the heart; therefore He added, "Fear them not therefore;" for even should they prevail, it will be over the inferior part, I mean, the body; which though they should not kill, nature will surely take with her and depart. So that not even this depends on them, but men have it from nature. …
Western Saints
Jerome
This expresses still more clearly the sense as it was above explained, that they should not fear those who can kill the body, for if the least animal falls not without God's knowledge, how much less a man who is dignified with the Apostolic rank?
Hilary of Poitiers
No accident then that can befal our bodies is to be feared; thus He adds, Fear not, ye are better than many sparrows. Or this, ye are better than many sparrows, teaches that the elect faithful are better than the multitude of the unbelieving, for the one fall to earth, the other fly to heaven.
Thomas Aquinas
Here he assures them on the ground that they can do little, and what they can do, they cannot accomplish without God's providence. Fear not, therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows: "You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field" (Ps 8:6); and Genesis (1:26): "Let us make man to our image and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the …
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