Then said the LORD unto me,
You have well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
It is written in the book of the prophet, “Take a branch from a nut tree.” So we must consider why the Lord said this to the prophet, for it is not written without a purpose, since we also read in the Pentateuch that the nut tree of Aaron, the priest, blossomed after it had been laid away for a long while.