Isaiah 1:10 (WEB)
Hear the LORD’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Catechism · 1
“The prophets of the Old Covenant often denounced sacrifices that were not from the heart or not coupled with love of neighbor.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Am 5:21-25; Isa 1:10-20.
Fathers and councils · 12
Origen
“…attack was actually made on Susanna by those who were at that time elders, and written down by the wisdom of the Spirit, but removed by these rulers of Sodom, as the Spirit would call them.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 10.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And Isaiah, when preaching in Judea, and reasoning with Israel, termed them “rulers of Sodom” and “people of Gomorrah;” intimating that they were like the Sodomites in wickedness, and that the same description of sins was rife among them, calling them by the same name, because of the similarity of their conduct.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 10.
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Tertullian
“For it calls your rulers “rulers of Sodom,” and your people the “people of Gomorrha,” when those cities had already long been extinct.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“Thus He calls the chief men of the Jews “rulers of Sodom,” and the nation itself “people of Gomorrah.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“…places and the honour of public salutations, He only follows out the Creator’s course, who calls ambitious persons of this character “rulers of Sodom,” who forbids us “to put confidence even in princes,” and pronounces him to be altogether wretched who places his confidence in man.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 10.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Manasses also was utterly wicked, who sawed Isaiah asunder, and was defiled with all kinds of idolatries, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; but having been led captive to Babylon he used his experience of…” — editor's note: Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, § 120 charges the Jews with having cut out a passage referring to the death of Isaiah. Theophylact commenting on Heb. xi.…
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John Chrysostom
“For the Prophets ever rebuked them, saying, “Hear, ye rulers of Sodom”; and, “Thy rulers are disobedient” ( Isa. i. 10, 23 ); and again, “Is it not for you to know judgment?” ( Mic. iii. 1.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For this cause Isaiah also calls them, “rulers of Sodom,” and “people of Gomorrah;”and another prophet saith, “Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians;”and all withdraw them from this way of thinking, bringing down their pride, which had caused them unnumbered evils.” — editor's note: Is. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“Yea, and so the prophets used to call every one of their approved kings, David;and the Jews, “rulers of Sodom,”and “sons of Ethiopians;”because of their ways.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 10.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Let every man chase away his weariness, since that Majesty was not wearied with being in the womb nine months for us, and in being thirty years in Sodom among the madmen.” — editor's note: Is. i. 10. Rev. xi. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For whenever I hear Isaiah threaten the people of Sodom and rulers of Gomorrah, and say Why will ye be smitten any more, adding sin to sin?” — editor's note: Isai. i. 10.
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Aphrahat
“And Isaiah also calls them rulers of Sodom, and people of Gomorrha.” — editor's note: Is. i. 10.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 4.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 4.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.