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Against Heresies, 5.33.3 in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

Irenaeus, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson | Christian Literature, 1885

 

p. 563

“The days will come in which vines shall grow, each having ten thousand branches, and in each branch ten thousand twigs, and in each true twig ten thousand shoots, and in each one of the shoots ten thousand clusters, and on every one of the clusters ten thousand grapes, and every grape when pressed will give five and twenty metretes of wine [ca. 1000 liters].  And when any of the saints shall lay hold of a cluster, another shall cry out, ‘I am a better cluster, take me; bless the Lord through me.’”