Isaiah 1:15 (WEB)
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
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 · 8
Jerome
“I said,“Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 15.
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Tertullian
“…shall have outstretched hands, I will avert my face from you; and if ye shall have multiplied prayers, I will not hear you: for your hands are full of blood;” and again, “Woe! sinful nation; a people full of sins; wicked sons; ye have quite forsaken God, and have provoked unto indignation the Holy One of Israel.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 15.
Read the whole comment“…being hereditary culprits from their privity to their fathers’ crimes, they do not dare even to raise them unto the Lord, for fear some Isaiah should cry out, for fear Christ should utterly shudder.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 15.
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John Chrysostom
“On this account the Law at its commencement opens with this, “Thou shalt not kill” ( Ex. xx. 13 ); and the Prophet brings this charge against them, “Their hands are full of blood.” ( Isa. i. 15.)” — 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.
Read the whole comment“Defile it not therefore, lest to thee also He say, “Though ye make many prayers, I will not hearken.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 15.
Read the whole comment“For from the first the prophets used to charge them with these things, saying, “Your hands are full of blood;”and, “They mingle blood with blood;”and, “They build up Sion with blood.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 15.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And if ye be willing and listen to me, ye shall eat of the good of the land; but if ye be unwilling, and will not hear me, the sword shall consume you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these things.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 15–20.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.