Habakkuk 1:16 (WEB)
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“According to Habakkuk, “His food is of the choicest.”” — editor's note: Hab. i. 16, LXX.
Read the whole comment“…the food of the devil, whereby the saying is fulfilled: “He derides every stronghold, and his fare is choice, and he hath gathered captives as the sand.”” — editor's note: Hab. i. 10, 16, 9, LXX.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…the unjust; another has hated him that reproveth in the gates, and abhorred him that speaketh uprightly; another has sacrificed to his net which catches much, and keeping the spoil of the poor in his house, has either remembered not God, or remembered Him ill—by saying “Blessed be the Lord, for we are rich,” and…” — editor's note: Habak. i. 16.
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John Cassian
“For thus the prophet speaks of this spirit, “His meat is choice.”” — editor's note: Hab. i. 16 (LXX.).
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Cyprian of Carthage
“That no one should be uplifted in his labour.” — editor's note: [Hab. i. 16; Ps. cxxxi. 1.]
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.52.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.52.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.52.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.52.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.6.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.6.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.6.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.6.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.52 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.6.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.52.