Isaias 37:31
And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is left, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et mittet id quod salvatum fuerit de domo Juda, et quod reliquum est, radicem deorsum, et faciet fructum sursum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔσονται οἱ καταλελιμμένοι ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ, φυήσουσιν ῥίζαν κάτω καὶ ποιήσουσιν σπέρμα ἄνω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְיָ֨סְפָ֜ה פְּלֵיטַ֧ת בֵּית יְהוּדָ֛ה הַנִּשְׁאָרָ֖ה שֹׁ֣רֶשׁ לְמָ֑טָּה וְעָשָׂ֥ה פְרִ֖י לְמָֽעְלָה
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
24. For in reality, as the Scripture says, the shepherds became brutish, and many shepherds destroyed My vineyard, and defiled my pleasant portion, I mean the Church of God, which has been gathered together by the sweat and blood of many toilers and victims both before and after Christ, aye, even the great sufferings of God for us. For with very few exceptions, and these either men who from their insignificance were disregarded, or from their virtue manfully resisted, being left unto Israel, as was ordained, for a seed and root, to blossom and come to life again amid the streams of the Spirit, everyone yielded to the influences of the time, distinguished only by the fact that some did so earlier, some later, that some became the champions and leaders of impiety, while such others were assigned a lower rank, as had been shaken by fear, enslaved by need, fascinated by flattery, or beguiled …