Isaiah 11:8

• §672Article 7 · "From Thence He Will Come Agaln to Judge the Living and the Dead"Read at vatican.va

  “Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by Israel which, according to the prophets, was to bring all men the definitive order of justice, love and peace.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 11:1-9.

Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance I.13Book I

  “And then it is written: “Then shall the wolves and the lambs feed together, the lion and the ox shall eat straw, and they shall not hurt nor destroy in My holy mountain, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Isa. xi. 6, 8, 9.

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 130

  “Meanwhile the leopard lies down with the kid and the lion eats straw like the ox; not of course that the ox may learn ferocity from the lion but that the lion may learn docility from the ox.” — editor's note: Isa. xi. 6–8.

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John Cassian

• John Cassian, On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.1Book VII

  “And grant that through the fearless boldness of steadfast innocence, the sucking child may play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.” — editor's note: Isa. xi. 8.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.24Book IV

  “Happily the Creator has promised by Isaiah to give this power even to little children, of putting their hand in the cockatrice den and on the hole of the young asps without at all receiving hurt.” — editor's note: Isa. xi. 8, 9.

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• Isaiah 34:14

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.1.

• Micah 7:17

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• 1 Corinthians 4:21

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• 1 Corinthians 5:1

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• 1 Corinthians 5:5

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Genesis 3:14

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Genesis 3:19

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Job 2:6

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Job 41:1

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Job 41:5

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Job 41:8

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Psalm 80:5

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.

• Psalm 118:6

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.1.

• Proverbs 23:13

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.13.