Habakkuk 2:15 (WEB)
“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
Fathers and councils · 6
Gregory of Nyssa
“Woe unto him who gives his neighbour to drink turbid mischief!” — editor's note: Cf. Hab. ii. 15 (LXX.). It is possible that the reading θολεράν for δολεράν, which appears both in Oehler’s text and in the Paris edition, was a various…
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18Conference XVI
“He is filled with shame instead of glory.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 15, 16.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“‘Wo unto him who causeth his neighbour to drink turbid destruction, and maketh him drunk, that he may look upon his caverns.’” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 15, LXX.
Read the whole comment“…believe aright, and love what the fathers have declared, they are simply doing what the prophet describes, giving their neighbour turbid confusion to drink, and fighting about words to no good purpose, save to the subversion of the simple.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 15, LXX.
Read the whole comment“‘Wherefore the prophet sent by the Lord declared them to be wretched, saying: “Wo is he who giveth his neighbours to drink muddy destruction.”” — editor's note: Habak. ii. 15. LXX.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…foul disorder, and an intoxication and aberration of mind; charging them with giving their neighbours drink in order to look upon the darkness of their soul, and the dens of creeping things and wild beasts, viz.: the dwelling places of wicked thoughts.” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 15.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.5.
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Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.18.