Romans 11:23

• §755Paragraph 1 · The Church in God's PlanRead at vatican.va

  “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.

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 66

  “For God is able again to graft them in.” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 23.

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• 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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Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.6Festal Letters

  “When He did this, He abolished the shadow, causing it to wither; but preserved the root, so that we might [not] be grafted upon it; ‘they too, if they abide not in unbelief, may attain to be grafted into their own olive tree.’” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 23.

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Tertullian

• 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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Gregory of Nazianzus

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 11

  “…is being continually disclosed to him (O marvel, that I have a like experience), he closes his discourse with astonishment, and calls this the riches of God, and the depth, and confesses the unsearchableness of the judgments of God, in almost the very words of David, who at one time calls God’s judgments the great…” — editor's note: Rom. xi. 23.

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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.