Joel 1:4 (WEB)
What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
Fathers and councils · 3
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3Conference XIII
“…“the cankerworm eat what the locust hath left, and the palmerworm eat what the cankerworm hath left, and the mildew destroys what the palmerworm hath left.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxviii. 23; Joel i. 4.
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Jerome
“Joel the son of Pethuel describes the land of the twelve tribes as spoiled and devastated by the palmerworm, the canker-worm, the locust, and the blight, and predicts that after the overthrow of the former people the Holy Spirit shall be poured out upon God’s servants and handmaids; the same spirit, that is,…” — editor's note: Joel i. 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“That which the palmerworm left did the locust eat, and that which the locust left did the caterpillar eat: then came the cankerworm, then, what next I know not, one evil springing up after another.” — editor's note: Ib. i. 4.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.