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Genesis 3:18 (WEB)
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Catechism · 3

§1607Article 7 · The Sacrament of MatrimonyRead at vatican.va
“Their relations were distorted by mutual recriminations; their mutual attraction, the Creator's own gift, changed into a relationship of domination and lust; and the beautiful vocation of man and woman to be fruitful, multiply, and subdue the earth was burdened by the pain of childbirth and the toil of work.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:28; 3:16-19.

§2427Article 7 · The Seventh CommandmentRead at vatican.va
“By enduring the hardship of work” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:14-19.

§378Paragraph 6 · ManRead at vatican.va
“Work is not yet a burden,” — Catechism footnote: Gen 2:15; cf. 3:17-19

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 14
“Adam received the sentence, Cursed is the ground in thy labours; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17, 18. By mistaking one letter in the Hebrew, the Seventy give the meaning “in thy labours” instead of “for thy sake.”
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 103
“Since it is in consequence of His anger that we live in the scourges and corruption of mortality: we have this in punishment for the first sin.…Is it not through His anger, my brethren, that “in the sweat of thy face and in toil thou shalt eat bread, and the earth shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee”?” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 19, 18.
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XIII.12Book XIII
“This delivering up is first signified in Genesis, where, when it had been said to the serpent, “Dust shalt thou eat,” it was said to the man, “Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 14–19
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews Homily 6
“There is not, “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread,” nor “thorns and thistles” ( Gen. iii. 19, 18 ); no longer, “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and to thy husband shall be thy desire and he shall rule over thee.” ( Gen. iii. 16.)” — the author cites it
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JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“To me He seems here to express figuratively that which was said literally to Adam; “Amidst briers and thorns thou shalt eat they bread,” [Gen 3:18] that he that has given himself up to the delights and the cares of this world, eats heavenly bread and the true food among thorns.” — the author cites it
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Jerome, Letters Letter 22
“No, the earth yields only thorns and thistles, and its dust is food for the serpent.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 14, 18.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 125
““My sword,” God says, “hath drunk its fill in heaven;” much more then upon the earth with its crop of thorns and thistles.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 18.
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Cyprian of Carthage, On the Advantage of Patience
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread, till thou return into the ground from which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou go.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17–19.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.59Book III
“Thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return unto the earth from which also thou wast taken; because earth thou art, and to earth thou shalt go.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 17–19.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 2
“This is why the heathen rage and the peoples imagine vain things; why tree is set over against tree, hands against hand, the one stretched out in self indulgence, the others in generosity; the one unrestrained, the others fixed by nails, the one expelling Adam, the other reconciling the ends of the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 6–23.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion II.11Book II
“Immediately the earth is also cursed, which before was blessed.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 18.
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