Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 4:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 5, footnote 17 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 45 (In-Text, Margin)

... crags, bare rocks, and desolate aspect make it more terrible still. No peasant or monk is to be found there. Even the little Onesimus you know of, in whose kisses he used to rejoice as in those of a brother, in this tremendous solitude no longer remains at his side. Alone upon the island—or rather not alone, for Christ is with him—he sees the glory of God, which even the apostles saw not save in the desert. He beholds, it is true, no embattled towns, but he has enrolled his name in the new city.[Isaiah 4:3] Garments of sackcloth disfigure his limbs, yet so clad he will be the sooner caught up to meet Christ in the clouds. No watercourse pleasant to the view supplies his wants, but from the Lord’s side he drinks the water of life. Place all this before ...