Isaiah 1:3 (WEB)
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
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 · 26
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For instance, when the prophet Isaiah says, “But Israel hath not known Me, and My people have not understood Me,” they pervert his words to mean ignorance of the invisible Bythus.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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Clement of Alexandria
““The ox,” it is said, “knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel hath not known Me.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“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“…they understood not that this very thing, which they called the disgrace of the Lord, was a prophecy wisely uttered: “The Lord was not known by the people” which erred, which was not circumcised in understanding, whose darkness was not enlightened, which knew not God, denied the Lord, forfeited the place of the…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“Here add that prophecy: “The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not understood Me.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Why is it then that He is rebuking the same people by the mouth of the Prophet, saying, “But Israel hath not known Me, and My people hath not understood”?” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“See this ox magnifying his Lord, because “the ox knoweth his owner;” observe that ox in fear lest men desert the ox’s owner and rely on the ox: how he dreads them that are willing to put their confidence in him: “Was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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Basil the Great
““The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
Read the whole comment““The ox,” it is said, “knoweth his owner.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 3.
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John Chrysostom
“For He speaketh of a different kind of knowledge, when He saith, “ye know not”; as when He saith, “The sons of Eli were wicked sons, they knew not the Lord” ( 1 Sam. ii. 12 ); and again, “Israel doth not know Me.” ( Isa. i. 3.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For before the Crucifixion, not even the Jews knew Him; “Israel,” it saith, “hath not known Me” ( Isa. i. 3 ); but after the Crucifixion, all the world ran to Him.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet:” declaring both that He should dieand “the ox that knoweth his owner, and the ass that remembereth his crib.”” — editor's note: Is. i. 3.
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Jerome
“Here, when she looked upon the inn made sacred by the virgin and the stall where the ox knew his owner and the ass his master’s crib, and where the words of the same prophet had been fulfilled “Blessed is he that soweth beside the waters where the ox and the ass trample the seed under their…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…asses, or sheep; except perchance he reckons himself amongst those which know their Owner, and wishes to company with the ass which does not shun the crib of Christ; and that Sheep is his portion which was led to the slaughter, and that Lamb which was dumb before the shearer, and opened not His mouth, in Whose…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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Tertullian
“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“Shall, then, creatures which God makes subject to us be better than we in the discipline of obedience?” — editor's note: Obsequii. For the sentiment, compare Isa. i. 3.
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“…since the time when “Israel acknowledged not the Lord, and the people understood Him not, but forsook Him, and provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment““But Israel doth not know me, and my people doth not consider me;” nor to the Gentiles: “For, behold,” says He, “of the nations I have no man.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“But so does the Creator Himself testify to their ignorance concerning Him: “Israel hath not known me; my people have not understood me;” and as to their preferring the establishment of their own righteousness, (the Creator again describes them as) “teaching for doctrines the commandments of…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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John Cassian
“If you say Jews: certainly the Jews did not know Christ, as it is said, “But Israel hath not known Me, My people have not considered;” and, “The world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Ye have forsaken the Lord; ye have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Or if thou art one of those who are as yet unclean and uneatable and unfit for sacrifice, and of the gentile portion, run with the Star, and bear thy Gifts with the Magi, gold and frankincense and myrrh, as to a King, and to God, and to One Who is dead for thee.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 3.
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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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Ephrem the Syrian
“With the swallow and the crow did He put men to shame; with the ox, yea with the ass, did He put them to shame; let the pearl reprove now, O ye birds and things on earth and things below.” — editor's note: Is. i. 3.
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Cross-references · 30
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Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
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Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
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Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
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