Zechariah 2:8 (WEB)
For the LORD of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
Fathers and councils · 6
Justin Martyr
“…and scoff not at the King of Israel, as the rulers of your synagogues teach you to do after your prayers: for if he that touches those who are not pleasing to God, is as one that touches the apple of God’s eye, how much more so is he that touches His beloved!” — editor's note: Zech. ii. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
““Thus saith the Lord Almighty: After His glory hath He sent me against the nations which have made spoil of you, forasmuch as he that toucheth you is as he that toucheth the pupil of His eye.” — editor's note: The quotation is from Zech. ii. 8—“after His glory.” Lat.—“Post honorem.” LXX.—ὀπίσω δόξης. Vulg.—“Post gloriam.” A.V.—“ After the glory.”
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Basil the Great
“So I have been compelled, as it is written, to touch as it were the apple of my eye.” — editor's note: cf. Zech. ii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Behold, I will bring mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Zech. ii. 8, 9.
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Tertullian
“Recognise also in Him the Judge, and one too, who expresses Himself on the safety of His followers with the same tenderness as that which the Creator long ago exhibited: “He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of my eye.”” — editor's note: Zech. ii. 8.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“The fool, who goes astray, grazes the faith, as it were an eye, by all manner of questions.” — editor's note: Zech. ii. 8.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 4.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.4.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 4.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 137.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.4.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 4.