Isaiah 65:8 (WEB)
The LORD says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
Fathers and councils · 2
Justin Martyr
““For you see how He now addresses the people, saying a little before: ‘As the grape shall be found in the cluster, and they will say, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for My servant’s sake: for His sake I will not destroy them all.’” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 8 f.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…appropriately, I found Israel like a figtree in the wilderness, and like one or two ripe grapes in an unripe cluster, preserved as a blessing from the Lord, and a consecrated firstfruit, though small as yet and scanty, and not filling the mouth of the eater: and as an ensign on a hill, and as a beacon on a…” — editor's note: Isai. lxv. 8.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 136.