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* [http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=545 "Catholic Activity: Jesse Tree Instructions."] | * [http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=545 "Catholic Activity: Jesse Tree Instructions."] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Jesse ''Wikipedia,'' "Tree of Jesse."] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Jesse ''Wikipedia,'' "Tree of Jesse."] | ||
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Revision as of 19:43, 7 December 2012
- "But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD, and his delight shall be the fear of the LORD."
"The passage in Isaiah, 11:1 is: "There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. In the Latin Vulgate Bible used in the Middle Ages this was: "et egredietur virga de radice Iesse et flos de radice eius ascendet " or ".. a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up...". Flos, pl floris is Latin for flower. Virga is a "green twig", "rod" or "broom", as well as a convenient near-pun with Virgo or Virgin, which undoubtedly influenced the development of the image. Thus Jesus is the Virga Jesse or "shoot of Jesse".