Behold, the days come,
says the LORD,
that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
the mountains: By mountains here, therefore, he probably refers to the churches of Christ on account of the sublimity of the teachings in them and the excellence of piety towards God, and the fact that while the mountains appear covered in various plants, the churches of Christ have as their heads countless saints, like tall cedars and trees set close to the channels of spiritual water.
shall drip sweet wine: Likewise those who are more eminent than the others and better endowed with virtue and understanding collect the sweet honey of teachings on Christ and, as it were, distill it into the hearts of others.
and all the hills shall flow with it: The hills being second and of lower ranking in virtue compared with those more conspicuous for it; there are measures of holiness and righteousness in churches, and as Paul says, ‘according to the grace given to each one’ by God, who distributes such things. They will grow together, then he says, luxuriant and fruitful, with a mind richly bedecked with the correctness of divine teachings.
