Micah 7:1 (WEB)
Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard. There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
Fathers and councils · 5
Ambrose of Milan
“…but may He gather it in, as is said by some one: “Woe is me, for I am become as one that gathereth straw in harvest, and grape gleanings in the vintage,” that He may eat of the firstfruits at least of His grace in me, though He approve not the later fruit.” — editor's note: Mic. vii. 1.
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John Chrysostom
“For the godly man is perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men” ( Mic. vii. 1, 2 , LXX.); let us also now cry out, first about our own selves: but aid me in my lamentation.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Alas! that the righteous hath perished from the earth!” ( Mic. vii. 1, 2.)” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He bewails also the scarcity of the upright, there being scarcely a stalk or a gleaning grape left, since both the prince asketh, and the judge curries favour, so that his language is almost the same as the mighty David’s: Save me, O Lord, for the godly man ceaseth: and says that therefore their blessings shall fail…” — editor's note: Ib. vii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“…of souls well tilled with the Word: unrecognized however in public, and not collected together, but gathered in fragments, as an ear gleaned in the stubble, as gleaning-grapes in the vintage, where there is no cluster left.” — editor's note: Mic. vii. 1 (LXX.).
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
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Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.8.