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Isaiah 1:23

Michelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509, Sistine Chapel

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Isaiah 1:23 (WEB)

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

Justin Martyr

John Chrysostom

Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “…or children in authority, immature in mind, not even having bread and clothing enough to be rulers over any; or prophets teaching lies, or rebellious princes, deserving to share the reproach of their elders for the straitness of the famine, or priests very far from speaking comfortably to Jerusalem, according to the…” — editor's note: Ib. i. 23.

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Clement of Alexandria

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  • Isaiah 1:23 and Jeremiah 5:28 share the same wording (9 words).

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