Joel 2:17 (WEB)
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Fathers and councils · 4
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…Thy Church (and I know that Thou wilt spare), look upon the words of Eusebius and his fellows, and give not thine inheritance to destruction and reproach, and take off Arius, lest if he enter into the Church, the heresy also may seem to enter with him, and henceforward impiety be accounted for piety.’” — editor's note: Joel ii. 17.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“I therefore implore you to pray with all your might to our loving Lord, and to cry unto Him, “‘Spare Thy people, O Lord and give not Thy heritage to reproach.’” — editor's note: Joel ii. 17
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Who will cry aloud, Spare Thy People, O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them?” — editor's note: Joel ii. 17.
Read the whole comment“…and the people, sparing nothing, either toil or word, which may propitiate God: saying “Spare, O Lord, Thy people, and give not Thine heritage to reproach,” and the rest of the prayer; surpassing the people in our sense of the affliction as much as in our rank, instructing them in our own persons in compunction and…” — editor's note: Joel ii. 17.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.9.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.9.