Jeremiah 1:11
Douay-Rheims
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.
Ambrose of Milan
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.
Source details
A.D. 397 · on Jer 1:11-12 (LETTER 62)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.