For I was hungry, and you gave me no food: I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink:
All Commentaries on Matthew 25:42 Go To Matthew 25
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Gave me not. Jesus Christ chargeth them not here with a want of faith, but with a want of good works. They certainly believed, but they attended not to good works; as if a dead faith, i.e. a faith not working by charity, could bring them to heaven. (St. Augustine, de fideoper. chap. xv. and ad Dulcit. q. 2. ad 4.)
Jesus Christ suffers his members to want, in mercy to them, and to afford others an opportunity of shewing their love for him, and of redeeming their sins by alms-deeds, as was said to the king of the Chaldeans, peccata tua eleemosynis redime. (Daniel iv.)
