Romans 11:22

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  “Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness to the branches, that is, to us, who through the Church remain in Christ, without whom we can do nothing.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 39; Rom 11:13-26; Mt 21:32-43 and parallels; Isa 51-7; Jn 15:1-5.

Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 2

  “Such and so great futilities of theirs wherewith they flatter God and pander to themselves, effeminating rather than invigorating discipline, with how cogent and contrary (arguments) are we for our part able to rebut,—(arguments) which set before us warningly the “severity” of God, and provoke our own constancy?” — editor's note: See Rom. xi. 22.

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• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 8

  “…to grieve, at the restoration of Israel, if it be true, (as it is), that the whole of our hope is intimately united with the remaining expectation of Israel.” — editor's note: Comp. Rom. xi. 11–36.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount II.14Book II

  “For whose mercy can be mentioned as being so great as His, who pardons all the sins of those who return, and makes the wild olive a partaker of the fatness of the olive? and whose severity as being so great as His, who spared not the natural branches, but broke them off because of unbelief?” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 17–24.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor I.8Book I

  ““Behold, therefore,” says Paul, “the goodness and severity of God: on them that fell, severity; but upon thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness,” that is, in faith in Christ.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 22.

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• Wisdom 1:1

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• Sirach 5:5

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• Sirach 5:6

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• John 12:31

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• John 14:30

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.

• Romans 2:4

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.14.