Psalm 129:6 (WEB)
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“The next words are, “Let them be even as the grass of the house tops: that withereth before it be plucked up” (ver. 6).” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Nay it did not deserve to be called a field, requiring neither barn nor threshing-floor, and not even worthy of the sickle; with neither heap nor sheaves, or small and untimely sheaves, like those on the housetop, which do not fill the hand of the reaper, nor call forth a blessing from them which go by.” — editor's note: Ib. cxxix. 6 sqq.
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