Psalm 128:3 (WEB)
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
Fathers and councils · 7
Jerome
“…who had not offspring in Israel, was accursed; but blessed was he whose seed was in Sion, and his family in Jerusalem; and part of the highest blessing was, “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house, thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxxviii. 3.
Read the whole comment“The old law had a different ideal of blessedness, for therein it is said: “Blessed is he who hath seed in Zion and a family in Jerusalem:” and “Cursed is the barren who beareth not:” and “Thy children shall be like olive-plants round about thy table.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxxviii. 3.
Read the whole comment“In days gone by men rejoiced to hear it said of them: “thy children shall be like olive plants round about thy table,” and “thou shalt see thy children’s children.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxxviii. 3, 6.
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Justin Martyr
“For you are aware that the prophetic word says, ‘And his wife shall be like a fruitful vine.’” — editor's note: Ps. cxxviii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Let us now come to the words, “Thy wife” (ver. 3): it is said unto Christ.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“…having now seen perfection in His disciples, whom He had established upon the root of His words, He enters a garden, that He might plant the young olive-trees in the house of the Lord, and that He might water the just flourishing like a palm-tree, and the fruitful vine with the stream of His Blood.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxviii. [cxxvii.] 3.
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Gregory the Great
“Whence it is well said by the Psalmist, Sinners have built upon my back (Ps. cxxviii. 3).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 110.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 110.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.10.