Isaiah 40:7 (WEB)
The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
Fathers and councils · 15
Augustine of Hippo
“Because the scroll shall be rolled together, and the grass over which it was spread shall with its goodliness pass away; but Thy Word remaineth for ever, which now appeareth unto us in the dark image of the clouds, and through the glass of the heavens, not as it is; because we also, although we be the…” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8. The law of storms, and that which regulates the motions of the stars or the ebbing and flowing of the tides, may change at the “end of the…
Read the whole comment“For, “all flesh is grass, and the glory of man as the flower of grass; the grass withereth, and the flower falleth, but the word of the Lord abideth for ever.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“For, “All flesh is grass, and the brightness of man as the bloom of grass: the grass hath withered, and the bloom hath fallen down: but the word of the Lord abideth for everlasting.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“The hay hath dried up, and the flower hath fallen off:” but the Ark of the Lord “abideth for everlasting,” to wit, the secret testament of the kingdom of Heaven, where is the eternal Word of God.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“This which is so very beautiful, this quickly falleth.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
Read the whole comment““But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 7, Sept.; 1 Pet. i. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“And, brethren, recollect that Prophetical and Evangelical testimony, for it is read in the Gospel; “All flesh is grass, and all the glory of flesh as the flower of grass; the grass withereth, the flower falleth away, the Word of the Lord endureth for ever.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 7; Jas. i. 10; 1 Pet. i. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment““All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of the Lord abideth forever.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 1–8.
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Justin Martyr
“But Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering; and all the nations are considered nothing, and for nothing.’ ”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 1–17.
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Tertullian
““All flesh is grass.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 7.
Read the whole comment“Isaiah gives you no help when he says, “All flesh is grass;” and in another passage, “All flesh shall see the salvation of God.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 7.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
“By the grass are denoted the unbelievers, of whom it is said, “The grass hath dried up, and the flowers thereof faded.” [Isa 40:7]” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““Et omnis caro fenum, et omnis gloria ejus quasi flos feni; et fenum quidem exsiccatur, flos autem decidit, sed verbum Domini manet,” quod unxit artimam et uniit spiritui.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“…is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: the grass is withered, and the flower has fallen; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever;” let him hear the Spirit interpreting the matter in question by Jeremiah, “And I scattered them like dry sticks, that are made to fly by the wind into the…” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The grass withered, and the flower hath fallen away; but the word of the Lord abideth for ever.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 7.
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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 6:28–30 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 6:28–30 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 6:28–30 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 59.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 69 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 69 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 69.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 59.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 59.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 69 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 69 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 6:28–30 (Catena Aurea).