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Isaiah 44:4 (WEB)
and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

Fathers and councils · 2

Methodius of Olympus, The Banquet of the Ten Virgins IV.3Discourse IV
“And in Isaiah the righteous are said to “spring up as willows by the water courses.”” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 4.
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Methodius of Olympus, The Banquet of the Ten Virgins IX.4Discourse IX
“Willow branches; by that figure indicating righteousness, because “the just,” according to the prophet, shall spring up “as grass in the midst of the waters, as willows by the watercourses,” flourishing in the word.” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 4. The reading of the LXX.
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