Isaiah 1:14 (WEB)
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
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 · 15
Irenaeus of Lyons
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.38Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“We have heard from the prophetic words that these feasts and fasts are displeasing to the Lord.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 14.
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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““Your Sabbaths, and new moons, and ceremonies,” says He, “My soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 14, etc.
Read the whole comment“So likewise by Isaiah: “The new moons, and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; your holy days, and fasts, and feast-days, my soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Slightly altered from Isa. i. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“I am full of your solemnities, your feast-days, and your Sabbaths.”” — editor's note: See Isa. i. 11–14.
Read the whole comment“But even if, as being not the Christ of the Jews, He displayed a hatred against the Jews’ most solemn day, He was only professedly following the Creator, as being His Christ, in this very hatred of the Sabbath; for He exclaims by the mouth of Isaiah: “Your new moons and your Sabbaths my soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 14.
Read the whole comment“…who had said by Isaiah, “Your new moons, and your sabbaths, and your high days I cannot bear; your fasting, and feasts, and ceremonies my soul hateth;” also by Amos, “I hate, I despise your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies;” and again by Hosea, “I will cause to cease all her mirth,…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 13, 14.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.8Book II
“But with regard to God, we find it written as follows: “And I will put My soul upon that soul which has eaten blood, and I will root him out from among his people;” and also in another passage, “Your new moons, and sabbaths, and great days, I will not accept; your fasts, and holidays, and festal days, My soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 13, 14.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—You have quoted this testimony most appositely and properly, but your opponent might reply that even before the incarnation God said to the Jews, “Fasting and holy day and feasts my soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Isaiah i. 13, 14. Sept.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“On this account, the Lord, turning away His face from such a doctrine of theirs, saith, ‘Your new moons and your sabbaths My soul hateth.’” — editor's note: Is. i. 14.
Read the whole comment“But the feast of the heathen He reproves, as the bread of mourners, and He turns His face from that of the Jews, as being outcasts, saying, ‘Your new moons and your sabbaths My soul hateth.’” — editor's note: Is. i. 14.
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John Chrysostom
“…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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Hilary of Poitiers
“But, further, no one who is endued with reason can impute to God a soul; though it is written in many places that the soul of God hates sabbaths and new moons: and also that it delights in certain things.” — editor's note: E.g. Isai. i. 14.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Yes, I may even say this to you: “I became a surfeit unto you before you tasted of me, or gave me a trial”—which is most strange.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 14.
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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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Cross-references · 24
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.38.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.22.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.22.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.