Isaiah 32:20 (WEB)
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“…received the Lord on its back, and so fulfilled Isaiah’s prediction: “Blessed is he that soweth beside all waters, where the ox and the ass tread under foot.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxxii. 20, LXX.
Read the whole comment“…the words of the same prophet had been fulfilled “Blessed is he that soweth beside the waters where the ox and the ass trample the seed under their feet:” when she looked upon these things I say, she protested in my hearing that she could behold with the eyes of faith the infant Lord wrapped in swaddling clothes…” — editor's note: Isa. xxxii. 20, LXX.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Blessed is he that soweth beside all waters, and upon every soul, tomorrow to be ploughed and watered, which today the ox and the ass tread, while it is dry and without water, and oppressed with unreason.” — editor's note: Isa. xxxii. 20.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And the prophet says, “Blessed is he that soweth into all waters, whose ox and ass tread,” [that is,] the people, from the Law and from the Gentiles, gathered into one faith.” — editor's note: Isa. xxxii. 20.
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Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
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Luke 6:21 takes up the words of Isaiah 32:20 (8 words in common).