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This verse states that if one places one's treasure in heaven that is where one's heart or attention will be. This is an implicit warning, which is made clear later in the chapter, that if one's treasure is on earth, one's heart and attention will also be on earthly matters, to the exclusion of God.
Augustine: By heaven in this place I understand not the material heavens, for everything that has a body is earthly. But it behoves that the whole world be despised by him who lays up his treasure in that Heaven, of which it is said, The heaven of heavens is the Lord's, (Ps. 115:16.) that is, in the spiritual firmament.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a man who cast his net into the sea." In the Heliand it is written: "Also its [the kingdom of heaven] works is like that a man casts a net into the sea, a fishing net into the flood." [5] According to the Gospel of Thomas (Saying 8):
The treasury of merit or treasury of the Church (thesaurus ecclesiae; Greek: θησαυρός, thesaurós, treasure; Greek: ἐκκλησία, ekklēsía‚ convening, congregation, parish) consists, according to Catholic belief, of the merits of Jesus Christ and his faithful, a treasury that because of the communion of saints benefits others, too. [1]
Parable of the Hidden Treasure by Rembrandt (c. 1630). The Parable of the Hidden Treasure is a parable of Jesus which appears in Matthew 13:44 and illustrates the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven. It immediately precedes the parable of the pearl, which has a similar theme. The parable has been depicted by artists such as Rembrandt.
The Parable of the Hidden Treasure (left) paired with the Parable of the Pearl (right) on a stained glass window in Scots' Church, Melbourne. The Parable of the Pearl (also called the Pearl of Great Price) is one of the parables of Jesus Christ. It appears in Matthew 13 [1] and illustrates the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven.
T. C. Christensen produced a short film based on Tanner's life, Treasure in Heaven: The John Tanner Story. [1] Children. Sidney Tanner was involved in the Battle of Crooked River. He then lived in Montrose. His wife and the three youngest of his five children all died at the time that they joined the body of the Mormons in heading west.
Ligonier provided a venue where Orthodox bishops offered words and visions of ecclesial unity. Ten years ago, the prophetic spirit of Ligonier stood opposed to jurisdictional pluralism even when other hierarchs, here and abroad, sought to justify the uncanonical status quo. Ten years ago, the bishops of Ligonier expressed a oneness of mind ...