Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 81:11

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 247, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3049 (In-Text, Margin)

... increases the proportion of the farmer’s loss: while a gentle fall, which sinks deep, enriches the soil, benefits the tiller and makes the corn grow to a fine crop. So the fluent speech is not more profitable than the wise. For the one, though it perhaps gave a slight pleasure, passes away, and is dispersed as soon, and with as little effect, as the air on which it struck, though it charms with its eloquence the greedy ear. But the other sinks into the mind, and opening wide its mouth, fills it[Psalms 81:11] with the Spirit, and, showing itself nobler than its origin, produces a rich harvest by a few syllables.