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Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerard van Honthorst

Micah 6:7

Gerard van Honthorst, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1622 · Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1622, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

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Micah 6:7 (WEB)

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Fathers and councils · 4

John Chrysostom

  • “…the stress on their sacrifices; which thing He is also earnestly intimating unto them, when He sets down in brief what had been affirmed by all the prophets,saying, “Learn ye what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.”” — editor's note: See Hosea vi. 6; Ps. l. 8–15; Prov. xxi. 3; Isa. i. 11–15; Micah vi. 6, 7, 8.

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Augustine of Hippo

Clement of Alexandria

  • “Utrum vero quicunque etiam a peccato ad fidem convertitur, a peccandi consuetudine tanquam a “matre” converti dicatur ad “vitam,” feret mihi testimonium unus ex duodecim prophetis, qui dixit: “Si dedero primogenita pro impietate fructum yeniris mei, pro peccatis animæ meæ.”” — editor's note: Mic. vi. 7.

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Cyprian of Carthage

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