Judges 6:37 (WEB)
behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
Fathers and councils · 8
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Gideon, that Israelite whom God chose, that he might save the people of Israel from the power of foreigners, foreseeing this gracious gift, changed his request, and…” — editor's note: Judg. vi. 37, etc.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…earth was parched with continual drought, and by a second true sign, moistened the floor of all the earth with a shower, whilst dryness was upon the fleece.” — editor's note: Judg. vi. 37 ff.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For this, ye know, happened in a certain miracle, the ground was dry, the fleece only was wet, yet rain in the fleece appeared not.” — editor's note: Judg. vi. 36–40.
Read the whole comment“For he asked a sign of the Lord, that a fleece laid on the floor should alone be rained upon, and the floor should be dry; and again, the fleece alone should be dry, and the floor should be rained upon; and so it came to pass.” — editor's note: Judg. vi. 36–38.
Read the whole comment“It is like the nation of the Jews in the midst of the world, which had the grace of sacraments, not indeed openly manifested, but hidden in a cloud, or in a veil, like the dew in the fleece.” — editor's note: Judg. vi. 37, 39.
Read the whole comment“Gideon, one of the righteous men of old, asked for a sign from the Lord, and said, “I pray, Lord, that this fleece which I put in the floor be bedewed,and that the floor be dry.”” — editor's note: Judg. vi. 37.
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Jerome
“When the fleece of Judæa was made dry although the whole world was wet with the dew of heaven, and when many came from the East and from the West and sat in Abraham’s bosom: then God ceased to be known in Judah only and His name to be great in Israel…” — editor's note: Judg. vi. 36–40.
Read the whole comment“While they were keeping their sheep they found the Lamb of God; whose fleece bright and clean was made wet with the dew of heaven when it was dry upon all the earth beside, and whose blood when sprinkled on the doorposts drove off the destroyer of Egypt and took away the sins of the world.” — editor's note: Jud. vi. 37.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 3.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 3.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 3.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 3.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 3.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 3.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.17.