Hosea 13:7 (WEB)
Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory of Nyssa
“…Divine names, he must have known that our Lord is called a Curse and Sin, and a Heifer, and a lion’s Whelp, and a Bear bereaved of her whelps, and a Leopard and such-like names, according to various modes of conception, by Holy Scripture, the sacred and inspired writers by such names, as by well-directed shafts,…” — editor's note: Hosea xiii. 7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“I know Him, Who, though free from passion, meets us like a bear robbed of her whelps, like a leopard in the way of the Assyrians, not only those of that day, but if anyone now is an Assyrian in wickedness: nor is it possible to escape the might and speed of His wrath when He watches over…” — editor's note: Hos. xiii. 7, 8.
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