Isaiah 1:18 (WEB)
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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 · 25
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wash you, make you clean, put away evil from your hearts, learn to do well, seek judgment, protect the oppressed, judge the fatherless (pupillo), plead for the widow; and come, let us reason together, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Jer. vii. 3; Zech. vii. 9, 10, Zech. viii. 17; Isa. i. 17–19.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Because He is the King of those who have not been defiled with sins; for, He says, I will make your sins white as snow, and as wool, which is an emblem of forgiveness of sins, or of sinlessness itself.” — editor's note: Is. i. 18.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.8Conference XX
“And come, reason with Me, saith the Lord: and though your sins were as scarlet, yet shall they be as white as snow, though they were red as crimson, they shall be as white as wool.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. (xxv.) 18; Is. i. 16–18.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Learn to do well; judge the fatherless; plead for the widow,” that the earth may bring forth the green herb for meat, and the tree bearing fruit; and come let us reason together, saith the Lord, that there may be lights in the firmament of heaven, and that they may shine upon the earth.” — editor's note: Isa. i. l8.
Read the whole comment“For “though your sins shall be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
Read the whole comment““Although,” he saith, “your sins shall have been like scarlet, like snow I will whiten.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“What wonder if the Church is signified by white raiment, when you hear the Prophet Isaiah saying, “Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow”?” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
Read the whole comment““His raiment was white as the snow:” this is a figure of the purity of the Church, to which it was said by the Prophet, “Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Cleanse thoroughly, then, our ears, not with water of well, river, or rippling and purling brook, but with words cleansing like water, clearer than any water, and purer than any snow—even the words Thou hast spoken—“Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“So that God said by Isaiah: “Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
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John Chrysostom
““Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as scarlet, I will make you white as snow, and if they be as crimson, I will make you white as wool.” ( Isa. i. 17, 18.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“The words are not mine, but those of the Lord Himself, who saith, “Though thy sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow” ( Isa. i. 18 , LXX.); and, “Give alms—and all things shall be clean unto you” ( Luke xi. 41 ); and by such a disposition thou shalt beautify not thyself only, but thy husband.” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“Though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 18.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
““Wash you, make you clean.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 17, 18.
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Tertullian
“For Esaias also promises, that out of red and scarlet there will come forth the whiteness of snow and wool.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
Read the whole comment“…how that men should “cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek judgment, judge the fatherless, and plead for the widow:” be fond of the divine expostulations: avoid contact with the wicked: “let the oppressed go free:” dismiss the unjust sentence, “deal their bread to the hungry; bring the outcast into their house;…” — editor's note: Quæstiones, alluding to Isa. i. 18: δεῦτε καὶ διαλεχθῶμεν, λέγει Κύριος.
Read the whole comment“For in an earlier passage, speaking in the person of the Lord himself, he had said: “Even though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them as white as snow; even though they be like crimson, I will whiten them as wool.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
Read the whole comment““Do justice to the fatherless, and deal justly with the widow; and come, let us be reconciled, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“For, concerning the honours which widowhood enjoys in the sight of God, there is a brief summary in one saying of His through the prophet: “Do thou justly to the widow and to the orphan; and come ye, let us reason, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: So Oehler reads, with Rhenanus and the mss. The other edd. have the plural in each case, as the LXX. in the passage referred to (Isa. i. 17, 18).
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And if ye be willing, and hear my voice, ye shall eat the good of the land.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 16–19.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And come, and let us reason together, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 16, 17, 18.
Read the whole comment““Though your sins be as scarlet wool, I will make them white as snow; though they be blacker than darkness, I will wash and make them like white wool.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 18.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“He made disciples and taught, and out of black men he made men white.” — editor's note: Jer. xiii. 23; Is. i. 18.
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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.
Read the whole comment“Also in Isaiah: “Judge for the fatherless, and justify the widow; and come let us reason, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 17, 18.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 29.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.