Isaiah 5:2 (WEB)
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Fathers and councils · 11
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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Augustine of Hippo
“I looked for fruit from thence, and I found sin.” — editor's note: Isa. v. 2.
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John Chrysostom
“For (it is said) “I waited that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.” ( Isa. v. 2.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For indeed the Scripture is ever wont to call the law a hedge; as the prophet saith: “Thou hast broken down her hedge, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck off her grapes:”and, “I have set a hedge about it:”and Paul, “Having broken down the middle wall of the hedge.”” — editor's note: Is. v. 2, where the marginal translation is, He made a wall about it: the word hedge occurs verse 5. [R.V., verse 2. “He made a trench about it,” with margin,…
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Now in all other passages where God’s Word teaches some lesson from the fruits of trees, it mentions them as making fruit rather than as yielding fruit, as when it says: A good tree cannot make evil fruits, and when in Isaiah the complaint about the vine is: I looked that it should make grapes, and it made thorns.” — editor's note: Is. v. 2.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“In the winter which strips the fruit of the branches off from the barren vine, Fruit sprang up unto us; in the cold that bares all the trees, a shoot was green for us of the house of Jesse.” — editor's note: Isa. v. 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For holy indeed is that land, and everywhere noted for its piety, but these men are unworthy of the Church which bore them, and ye have heard of a briar growing in a vine; and the traitor was Judas, one of the disciples.” — editor's note: Isai. v. 2 (LXX.); vii. 23, v. l. “in a vineyard.”
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Aphrahat
“For their vines were of the vine of Sodom and of the stock of Gomorrha, a vineyard in which thorns grew, and which bore wild grapes.” — editor's note: Is. v. 2.
Read the whole comment“…and gather clusters of gall; and to eat the eggs of the basilisk and to clothe themselves with spiders’ webs, to be used with wild grapes of the vineyard, and to be turned into reprobate silver.” — editor's note: Is. v. 2.
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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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Tertullian
“…by Jeremiah, “Execute judgment and righteousness;” by Isaiah, “Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow,” charging it as a fault upon the vine of Sorech, that when “He looked for righteousness therefrom, there was only a cry” (of oppression).” — editor's note: Tertullian calls by a proper name the vineyard which Isaiah (in his chap. v.) designates “the vineyard of the Lord of hosts,” and interprets to be “the house…
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.