Isaiah 5:1 (WEB)
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Fathers and councils · 8
Athanasius of Alexandria
“My Well-beloved hath a vineyard;’ Who is this ‘Well-beloved’ but the Only-begotten Son? as also in the hundred and ninth, ‘From the womb I begat Thee before the morning star,’ concerning…” — editor's note: Is. v. 1.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…place; and (not to recite the whole) I waited, he says, that it should bring forth grapes; I thirsted that it should give wine; but it brought forth thorns; for thou seest the crown, wherewith I am adorned.” — editor's note: Isa. v. 1, 2.
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Basil the Great
““My well beloved,” says He, “hath a vineyard in a very fruitfull hill,” and elsewhere, I have “planted a vineyard and hedged it round about.”” — editor's note: Isa. v. 1.
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John Chrysostom
“And the prophets speak of the people as of a vine; “For my beloved,” it is said, “had a vineyard;”and, “He brought a vine out of Egypt;”but He, as of seed.” — editor's note: Is. v. 1.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…despised, and had its tower broken down and its fence taken away, and was not pruned nor digged, but was devoured and laid waste and trodden down by all!” — editor's note: Isai. v. 1.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
“Because Christ was born of the seed of David, according to the flesh, it is said, A horn of salvation to us in the house of his servant David; as it has also elsewhere been said, A vineyard hath been planted in a horn, (Is.” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“For Isaiah first set men of Judah as judges over them, and there was planted amongst them a new and beloved planting.” — editor's note: Is. v. 1 sqq.
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Leo the Great
“…now tasted the vinegar, the produce of that vineyard which had degenerated in spite of its Divine Planter, and had turned to the sourness of a foreign vine, the Lord says, “it is finished;” that is, the Scriptures are fulfilled: there is no more for Me to abide from the fury of the raging people: I have endured…” — editor's note: The reference is perhaps to Is. v. 1–5.
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Origen on Luke 1:69 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 5.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.