Isaiah 1:12 (WEB)
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
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 · 10
Tertullian
“…sacrifices, and the fat of goats, and blood of bulls, I will not, not even if ye come to be seen by me: for who hath required these things from your hands?” for “from the rising sun unto the setting, my Name hath been made famous among all the nations, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Comp. Isa. i. 11–14, especially in the LXX.
Read the whole comment“As for the burdensome sacrifices also, and the troublesome scrupulousness of their ceremonies and oblations, no one should blame them, as if God specially required them for Himself: for He plainly asks, “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?” and, “Who hath required them at your hand?”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, 12.
Read the whole comment“I am full of your solemnities, your feast-days, and your Sabbaths.”” — editor's note: See Isa. i. 11–14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For their assemblies shall not be carnal, nor will I gather them together as one propitiated by the blood of cattle.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, 12.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…made a pretence of the plain text of Scripture, and had confidence in this, He is angry with them, saying by Isaiah, ‘Who hath required these of your hands?’” — editor's note: Is. i. 12.
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John Chrysostom
“For “who,” saith He, “hath required this at your hands?” ( Isa. i. 12.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…the stress on their sacrifices; which thing He is also earnestly intimating unto them, when He sets down in brief what had been affirmed by all the prophets,saying, “Learn ye what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.”” — editor's note: See Hosea vi. 6; Ps. l. 8–15; Prov. xxi. 3; Isa. i. 11–15; Micah vi. 6, 7, 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“These things be well assured, I will accept at your hands.” — editor's note: Ib. i. 12.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Your new moons and your sabbaths I cannot away with.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11–14.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For who hath required these things from your hands?”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, 12.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.22.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.22.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.