Galatians 4:27 (WEB)
For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.”
Catechism · 2
The Moral Law
The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“By the Holy Spirit's power and her faith, her virginity became uniquely fruitful.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 1:26-38; Rom 4:18-21; Gal 4:26-28.
Fathers and councils · 14
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…and she is beloved who was not beloved;” and in what sense He says that “more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her who possessed a husband.”” — editor's note: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For what bride has more children than holy Church, who is a virgin in her sacraments and a mother to her people, whose fertility even holy Scripture attests, saying, “For many more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath an husband”?” — editor's note: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.8Conference XIV
“For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not, break forth and cry, thou that travailest not, for many are the children of the desolate more than of her that hath an husband.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…our eyes we have opened; and that barren one, for whom joy was proclaimed and foretold, because she was to have more sons than she that had the husband, her we have found to be such an one as hath forgotten the reproaches and infamy of her widowhood: and so we may perhaps wonder when we chance to read in any…” — editor's note: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
Read the whole comment“That widowed one who brought forth, and whose children were more than those of the married wife, heard ill names, heard reproaches: but the Church, multiplied as she is, extending right and left, no longer remembers the reproach of her widowhood.” — editor's note: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
Read the whole comment“For Jerusalem also was called: and the first Jerusalem refused to hear, and it was said unto her, “Behold, thy house shall be left unto the desolate.”…But that Jerusalem, of whom it was written, “Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear,” “She hath answered Him.”” — editor's note: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
Read the whole comment“Nay, but in that which is our mother, which is in the heavens, of which it is said, “The desolate hath more children than she which hath a husband.”” — editor's note: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
Read the whole comment“And we, brethren, are not children of the bond woman, but of the free, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–31.
Read the whole comment“…to God in the earth: but there are some things among them which are understood to pertain to both,—to the bond maid properly, to the free woman figuratively.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
Read the whole comment“Hence, that Jerusalem on earth was the shadow of the heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of us all, which is in heaven; and these are the apostle’s words.” — editor's note: Gen. xxi. 10; Gal. iv. 22–30.
Read the whole comment“…to the Jerusalem that is free, our eternal mother in heaven, the spiritual Sarah, who casteth out the bond maid and her children from the house of liberty.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
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Tertullian
“What that digamy of Abraham portends, the same apostle fully teaches, the interpreter of each testament, just as he likewise lays it down that our “seed” is called in Isaac.” — editor's note: See Gal. iv. 21–31.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
“For when a famine came upon the people of Israel, i. e. of hearing the word of God, a prophet came to a widow, of whom it is said, For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband; (Isa. 54:1, Gal. 4:27.) and when he had come, he multiplies her bread and her nourishment.” — the author cites it
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…him, he says, “very fruitful” likewise, “because,” says he, “more numerous are the children of the desolate one, than those of her which hath an husband;” that is, things by being born again become immortal and abide for ever in great numbers, even though the things that are produced may be few; whereas things…” — editor's note: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
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Cross-references · 26
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.3.
Cited together in Origen on Luke 4:22–27 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Origen on Luke 4:22–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Luke 4:22–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Luke 4:22–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Luke 4:22–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Luke 4:22–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Luke 4:22–27 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.