Isaiah 10:23

Gregory of Nazianzus

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 16

  “By this a crew of fishermen have taken the whole world in the meshes of the Gospel-net, and overcome by a word finished and cut short the wisdom that comes to naught.” — editor's note: Isai. x. 22, 23 (LXX.); Rom. ix. 28.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.1Book IV

  “This likewise will be the word concerning which the same Isaiah says, “For the Lord will make a decisive word in the land.”” — editor's note: T.’s version of Isa. x. 23. “Decisus Sermo” ="determined” of A.V.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.16Book IV

  “…to a compendious formula, because (as it was predicted in another passage) the Lord—that is, Christ—“was to make (or utter) a concise word on earth.”” — editor's note: “Recisum sermonem facturus in terris Dominus.” This reading of Isa. x. 23 is very unlike the original, but (as frequently happens in Tertullian) is close upon…

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4Book II

  “Also in Isaiah: “A Word completing and shortening in righteousness, because a shortened word will God make in the whole earth.”” — editor's note: Isa. x. 23.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 17

  “The Lord Himself came, the Teacher of love, full of love, “shortening,” as it was predicted of Him, “the word upon the earth,” and showed that the law and the prophets hang on two precepts of love.” — editor's note: Isa. x. 23; xxviii. 22.

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• John 1:1

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• John 1:2

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• John 1:3

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• John 1:4

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• John 1:5

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• Revelation 19:11

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• Revelation 19:12

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• Revelation 19:13

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• Psalm 33:6

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• Psalm 45:1

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.

• Psalm 107:20

  Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.4.