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Zechariah 9:16

Zechariah 9:16 (WEB)

The LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

Fathers and councils · 5

Jerome

  • “For to me may be applied thewords, ‘Holy stones are rolled upon the ground,’ and the reason why I am insensible to the attraction of sin is that in the power of free will I carry Christ’s trophy about with me.”” — editor's note: Zech. ix. 16, Sept. Correctly, they (God’s people) shall be as the stones of a crown lifting themselves up (or glittering) upon His land.

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  • “Now that out of the hard stones of the Gentiles God has raised up children unto Abraham, they begin to be “holy stones rolling upon the earth.”” — editor's note: Zech. ix. 16, LXX.

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  • “…wished to spend her money not upon these stones, that shall pass away with the earth and the world, but upon those living stones, which roll over the earth; of which in the apocalypse of John the city of the great king is built; of which also the scripture tells us that they shall be changed into sapphire and…” — editor's note: Zech. ix. 16, LXX.

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Aphrahat

Tertullian

  • “And the Lord shall save them in that day, even His people, like sheep; because as sacred stones they roll,” etc. And that you may not suppose that these predictions refer to such sufferings as await them from so many wars with strangers, consider the nature (of the sufferings).” — editor's note: Zech. ix. 15, 16 (Septuagint).

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