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Isaiah 60:8 (WEB)
“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

Fathers and councils · 6

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 19
“To her the Prophet also says concerning you, Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold thy children gathered together; and she answers, saying, Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves with their young ones to me? (clouds because of their spiritual nature, and doves, from their purity).” — editor's note: Ib. lx. 8.
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Gregory of Nyssa, On the Baptism of Christ
“But now, when I see you thronging here with all your families, I am reminded of the prophetic saying, which Isaiah proclaimed from afar off, addressing by anticipation the Church with her fair and numerous children:—“Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves with their young to me”?” — editor's note: Is. lx. 8 (LXX.).
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Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.18On Virginity
“For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way “fly like clouds,” as Isaiah says, “and as doves with their young ones”; but sin is a heavy affair, “sitting,” as another of the prophets says, “upon a talent of lead.”” — editor's note: Is. lx. 8. The LXX. has περιστερὰν σὺν νεοσσοῖς.
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Aphrahat, Select Demonstrations Demonstration 22
“In their bodies there shall be no heaviness, and lightly shall they fly as doves to their windows.” — editor's note: Is. lx. 8.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion III.23Book III
“Accordingly the Spirit, admiring such as soar up to the celestial realms by these ascensions, says, “They fly, as if they were kites; they fly as clouds, and as young doves, unto me”—that is, simply like a dove.” — editor's note: Isa. lx. 8.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.14Book V
“I find it was in their foresight of all this, that the heavenly intelligences gazed with admiration on “the Jerusalem which is above,” and by the mouth of Isaiah said long ago: “Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with their young ones, unto me?”” — editor's note: Isa. lx. 8.
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