Isaiah 1:22 (WEB)
Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
Fathers and councils · 4
Tertullian
“In like manner is the treatment of the soul according to the sophistical doctrines of men which “mix their wine with water.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 22.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wherefore also Esaias declares: “Thy dealers mix the wine with water,” showing that the elders were in the habit of mingling a watered tradition with the simple command of God; that is, they set up a spurious law, and one contrary…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 22.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…the wisdom created in the world and in the works, think that ‘He created’ is said of the Substance of the Very Wisdom, lest, diluting the wine with water, he be judged a defrauder of the truth.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 22. Infr. iii. 35. Ep. Æg. §17. Ambros. de Fid. iii. 65. p. 157. note 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For we are not as the many, able to corrupt the word of truth, and mix the wine, which maketh glad the heart of man, with water, mix, that is, our doctrine with what is common and cheap, and debased, and stale, and tasteless, in order to…” — editor's note: Isai. i. 22.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.