Deuteronomy 32:33 (WEB)
Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
Fathers and councils · 2
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X IX.5Conference IX
““Their grape is a grape of gall, theirs is a cluster of bitterness” for unless we are altogether cleansed from all faults and abstaining from the surfeit of all passions, our heart will without drunkenness from wine and excess of any feasting be weighed down by a drunkenness and surfeiting that is still more dangerous.” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 32, 33.
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Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §12On the Psalms
“It is God’s counsel, indeed, to tend the true vine, and to destroy the Egyptian, while sparing those who are to “eat the grape of gall, and drink the deadly venom of asps.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 33.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.5.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IX.5.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.
