| Barbara Newman - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 312 pages
...8.) 42. Scivias IH.8.15, trans. Hart and Bishop, pp. 436-439. "And there shall come forth a branch out of the root of Jesse; and a flower shall rise up out of his root. And the Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him; the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit... | |
| Eugene Robert Ekblad - Religion - 1999 - 362 pages
...here identified with one other saving figure who is described as having a spirit of understanding. And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from his root: and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him (éя' aÙтоv лveùua... | |
| Jürgen Renn - Science - 2001 - 446 pages
...thirteenthcentury tympanum in Notre Dame, Paris. The flowering staff can also represent the rod of Jesse: "And there shall come forth a rod out of the root...Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root" (Isaiah l\:l). Fig. 5. Diego Velasquez, The Immaculate Conception, c. 1619. Courtesy of the National... | |
| Leo Madigan - Fatima, Our Lady of - 2001 - 286 pages
...resemblance in a sermon, he said that the rose is the flower spoken of by Isaiah (XI. i): There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. It is blessed on Laetare Sunday - the fourth Sunday in Lent - but it is not always a new one that is... | |
| David L. Nalick - 2002 - 214 pages
...and with justice, from henceforth and forever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. . . And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of...Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. The Life and Passing of Joseph of Nazareth "And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit... | |
| Ronald Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - Religion - 2002 - 1128 pages
...made upon that text, you will see that to speak so is to confuse the metaphor slightly. There shall come forth a rod out of the Root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise out of his root. The sign towards which the prophet points is not the root itself, but a rod, a fresh... | |
| John Henry Newman - Religion - 2002 - 784 pages
...regard the Blessed Virgin, Holy Mary, to whom this month is dedicated? The Prophet says, "There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise out of his root." Who is the flower but our Blessed Lord? Who is the rod, or beautiful stalk or stem... | |
| Craig D. Allert - Religion - 2002 - 336 pages
...158. ''" Dial. 87.2. "Explain to me the following words of Isaiah, 'There shall come forth a rod out of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. And the spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel... | |
| Carol Neel, Medieval Academy of America - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 444 pages
...the thirteenth century. The Tree of Jesse was based on exegesis of the first verse of Isaiah 1 1 : "And there shall come forth a rod out of the root...Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root" ("Et egredietur virga de radice lesse, Et flos de radice eius ascendet"). As early as Tertullian, the... | |
| David Frame Johnson, Elaine M. Treharne - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 432 pages
...the Incarnation and therefore the Redemption possible; thus, the messianic prophecy of Isaiah 11: i: 'And there shall come forth a rod out of the root...Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root' was applied to her by generations of exegetes, most notably St Jerome (Commentariorum in Esaiam, 4,... | |
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