I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
This is our faith. Thus did God will that he should be known by all, thus believed the three children [of the fiery furnace] who did not feel the fire into which they were cast, which destroyed and burned up the unbelievers, while it fell harmless as a dew upon the faithful. The flames kindled by others became cold, seeing that the torment had justly lost its power in conflict with faith. For with them there was one in the form of an angel, comforting them, to the end that in number of the Trinity one supreme power might be praised. God was praised; the Father of God was seen in God’s angel and holy and spiritual grace in the children. .
Breaches, when Israel shall be converted, as some were to Christ, and many will be at the end of the world. (Worthington)
Hebrew, "their return. "Septuagint, "dwellings. "They shall be purified.
Freely. I have been forced to chastise, My heart dilates. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "I will love them manifestly. "Syriac, "accept their free offerings. "(Haydock)
