Isaiah 56:3 (WEB)
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD speak, saying, “The LORD will surely separate me from his people.” Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“These are the eunuchs, who thinking themselves dry trees because of their impotence, hear by the mouth ofIsaiah that they have a place prepared in heaven for sons and daughters.” — editor's note: Is. lvi. 3.
Read the whole comment“But now even to eunuchs it is said, “Say not, behold I am a dry tree,” for instead of sons and daughters you have a place forever in heaven.” — editor's note: Isa. lvi. 3.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Si enim a Deo, ad quem tendimus, essethæc constitutio, non beatos dixisset esse eunuchos; neque propheta dixisset, eos ‘non esse arborem infrugiferam; transferens ab arbore ad hominem, qui sua sponte et ex instituto se castrat tall cogitatione.”” — editor's note: Isa. lvi. 3.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“He does not disdain the barbarian, nor does He set the eunuch aside as no man.” — editor's note: [Isa. lvi. 3, 4.]
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