Deuteronômio 28
Basil of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Deuteronômio 28:5
The prosperity of a city is dependent upon the supply of goods for sale in the market. We say that a country is prosperous which produces much fruit. So also there is a certain prosperity of the soul when it has been filled with works of every kind. It is necessary first for it to be laboriously cultivated and then to be enriched by the plentiful streams of heavenly waters, so as to bear fruit thirtyfold, sixtyfold and a hundredfold and to obtain the blessing which says, "Blessed shall be your barns and blessed your stores." — EXEGETIC HOMILIES 14.5
Deuteronômio 28:23
What is meant by "a heaven of brass"? Absolute dryness and lack of aerial waters through which the earth produces its fruits. — EXEGETIC HOMILIES 3.8