Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Isaiah 30:23
There is 1 footnote for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 444, footnote 4 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
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Conference XIV. The First Conference of Abbot Nesteros. On Spiritual Knowledge. (HTML)
Chapter XVI. The answer to the effect that bad men cannot possess true knowledge. (HTML)
... come to spiritual knowledge, you will certainly have, as we said, not barren or idle learning but what is vigorous and fruitful; and the seed of the word of salvation which has been committed by you to the hearts of your hearers, will be watered by the plentiful showers of the Holy Ghost that will follow; and, according to this that the prophet promised, “the rain will be given to your seed, wherever you shall sow in the land, and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful and fat.”[Isaiah 30:23]