Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Or otherwise; As to shun the evil, so to honour the good, has great recompense. Above then He had bid them to cut off the friendships of those that gave offence, here He teaches them to show honour and service to the saints.
Or because the perfect are esteemed of many as little ones, as poor, namely, and despicable.
Here He is speaking not of any Angels, but of the higher sort; for when He says, “Behold the face of my Father,” He shows that their presence before Godis free and open, and their honour great.
He gives yet another reason weightier than the foregoing, why the little ones are not to be despised, “For the Son of Man is come to save that which was lost.”.
And to this reasoning He adds a parable, in which He sets forth the Father as seeking the salvation of men, and saying, “What think you, If a man have ahundred sheep.”
