Isaiah 1:2 (WEB)
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
Catechism · 1
“"Christ instituted this New Covenant."” — Catechism footnote: LG 9; cf. Hos 1; Isa 1:2-4; Jer 2; 31:31-34; Isa 55:3.
Fathers and councils · 30
Irenaeus of Lyons
“He says: “Hear, O heavens; and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“And that such is the case He has declared in Isaiah: “I have begotten and brought up children, but they have rebelled against Me.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…itself; as the men who have received the Spirit by participation, concerning whom Scripture saith, ‘I begat and exalted children, and they rebelled against Me.’” — editor's note: Is. i. 2. LXX.
Read the whole comment“…before His sojourn among us; for ‘I begat sons,’ saith Scripture; and in the time of Noah, ‘When the sons of God saw,’ and in the Song, ‘Is not He thy Father?’” — editor's note: Is. i. 2, LXX.; Gen. vi. 2; Deut. xxxii. 6
Read the whole comment“And by Isaiah the prophet; ‘I have begotten and brought up children, and they have rejected Me.’” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 45; Is. i. 2.
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Tertullian
“Because the subsequent discourse of the prophet reproaches them, saying, “Sons have I begotten and upraised, but they have reprobated me;” and again, “And if ye 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…” — editor's note: Again an error; for these words precede the others. These are found in Isa. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“…sons) by reason of their consimilarity in impiety, whom of old (God) had called His own sons through Isaiah the prophet: “I have generated and exalted sons.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2, as before.
Read the whole comment“For the Jews are pronounced “apostate sons, begotten indeed and raised on high, but who have not understood the Lord, and who have quite forsaken the Lord, and have provoked unto anger the Holy One of Israel.”” — editor's note: Comp. Isa. i. 2–4.
Read the whole comment“This is the reproach that is brought against Israel, to which the Spirit attests heaven and earth, saying, “I have begotten sons, and they have not recognized me.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“And in another passage He also says: “Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite,” by reason of their kindred iniquity; although He had actually called them His sons: “I have nourished and brought up children.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“…who, against such as are thankless for both one promise and the other, calls the elements themselves to witness: “Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“For although He says of all the people (Israel), “I have begotten children,” yet He added not “from the womb.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“‘We are also able,’ say these accursed wretches, ‘to become like Him, the sons of God; for it is written,—I have nourished and brought up children.’” — editor's note: Isai. i. 2 ὑιοὺς ἐγέννησα καὶ ὕψωσα, as in Sept. Vulg., filios enutrivi et exaltavi. Revd., marg., “made great and exalted.”
Read the whole comment“For of men it is said, ‘I have begotten and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me;’ and in another place, ‘Thou hast forsaken God who begat thee;’ and again it is said, ‘Who begat the drops of dew?’” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2
Read the whole comment“Some men beating on their breast with one hand after another raised a mighty noise; others lifted up at once their hands and eyes to heaven in testimony of the wrong inflicted on them, and so saying in all but words, “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,” what unlawful deeds are being done.” — editor's note: Isaiah i. 2
Read the whole comment“…of God be strong in Him;” and by the mouth of the prophet Isaiah He says “I have nourished and brought up sons (children) and they have rebelled against me;” and through the thrice blessed David “I have said ye are gods and all of you are children of the Most High,” and to the Romans the wise Paul wrote in this…” — editor's note: Is. i. 2
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Augustine of Hippo
“In the synagogue of these children of the Most High, of whom the same Most High said by the mouth of Isaiah, “I have begotten sons and brought them up, but they despised Me,” stood God.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“…not strayed from His commandments: as, for instance, we have that statement, “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me;” and that other, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High;” and this again, “If then I be a Father, where is mine honour? and if…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
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John Chrysostom
“For if He call to witness heaven and earth and hills (saying by the prophet, “Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken”— Isa. i. 2 —and “Hear ye ravines, foundations of the earth, for the Lord hath a controversy with His people”— Mic. vi. 2 ), much more men; that is, that they may…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“It is seasonable even now to call on the heaven, because there is no man that heareth; to take to witness the elements: “Hear, O heaven! and give ear, O earth! for the Lord hath spoken.” ( Isa. i. 2.)” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“What a palm of righteousness is it, what a crown to be such a one as that the Lord should not say of you, “I have begotten and brought up children, but they have despised me!”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“Ah sinful nation, a people filled with sins, a wicked seed, corrupting children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and have sent that Holy One of Israel into anger.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2–4.
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Basil the Great
“…his song he says, “Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak, and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth;” and Isaiah, “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;” and Jeremiah describes astonishment in heaven at the tidings of the unholy deeds of the people: “The heaven was astonished at this, and was horribly afraid,…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“You have read, I have begotten sons, and have raised them up; but you did not read there My sons, for He had begotten Himself those sons by division among the Gentiles, and from the people of His inheritance.” — editor's note: Isai. i. 2.
Read the whole comment“For He does not say, “I have begotten and brought up My sons,” but only, I have begotten and brought up sons.” — editor's note: Is. i. 2 (LXX.).
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Aphrahat
“And Isaiah said concerning them, Children have I reared and brought up, and they have rebelled against Me.” — editor's note: Is. i. 2.
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Leo the Great
“…up sons, but they have scorned Me: the ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not known Me and My people hath not acknowledged Me.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 2, 3.
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Clement of Alexandria
“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not known Me.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“And another prophet says again, “Hear, O heaven; and give ear, O earth,” calling understanding “ear,” and the soul of the Gnostic, that of the man who has applied himself to the contemplation of heaven and divine things, and in this way has become an Israelite, “heaven.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 2.
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Cross-references · 35
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
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 On Prayer Chapter 2.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
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.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.