Tradition
St. Thomas Aquinas (compiler)
Catena Aurea
Matthew › 10:9–10 · Part 2 of 2
Compiled by St. Thomas Aquinas from attributed patristic excerpts. Speaker labels identify the quoted authors; not every statement is Aquinas’s own wording. English edition edited by John Henry Newman (1841–1845). Matthew 10:9–10
JEROME. Or; The Lord herein teaches us that our feet are not to be bound with the chains of death, but to be bare as we tread on the holy ground. We are not to carry a staff which may be turned into a serpent, nor to trust in any arm of flesh; for all such is a reed on which if a man lean ever so lightly, it will break and go into his hand and pierce him.
HILARY. Neither a staff; that is, We are not to seek rights of extraneous power, having a rod from the root of Jesse.
Source: Catena Aurea (eCatholic2000)