Isaiah 14:13 (WEB)
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Fathers and councils · 25
Jerome
“You join the devil in boasting,“I will ascend above the stars, I will place my throne in heaven, and I will be like the Most High.”” — editor's note: Is. xiv. 13, 14. Spoken of the King of Babylon.
Read the whole comment“For he had said in his heart, “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God,” and “I will be like the Most High.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“Already before the arrival of your letter many in the East have been deceived into a pride which apes humility and have said with the devil: “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will be like the Most High.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.7Conference V
“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most High.”” — editor's note: Is. xiv. 13, 14.
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“I will be like the Most High.”” — editor's note: Is. xiv. 12–14.
Read the whole comment “…of ruin,” with which he had said, “I will ascend into heaven,” and the “deceitful tongue,” with which he had said of himself, “I will be like the Most High,” and of Adam and Eve, “Ye shall be as gods,” therefore “shall God destroy him forever and pluck him out and remove him from his dwelling place and his root out…” — editor's note: Is. xiv. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“For the one says, “I will ascend into heaven;” the other, “My soul was brought low even to the ground.”” — editor's note: Is. xiv. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“This way they knew not, and they think themselves exalted with the stars and shining, and lo! they fell upon the earth, and “their foolish heart was darkened.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13.
Read the whole comment“…being made like unto him, he may have them as his, not in harmony of love, but in the fellowship of punishment; who aspired to exalt his throne in the north, that dark and cold they might serve him, imitating Thee in perverse and distorted ways.” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“From the face of the earth it cast forth him also who, after that he had consented and tasted of the forbidden tree that he might be as God, hid himself from the Face of God.” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“As he who seduced him, said of himself, “I will sit in the sides of the north;” so he persuaded him, by saying, “Taste, and ye shall be as gods.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13.
Read the whole comment“Who is the North, but He who said, “I will sit in the sides of the North, I will be like the Most High”?” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“The chiefest tribulations therefore arise against the Church from none except from those that ill use the law.…” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13.
Read the whole comment“This is that strong man on his own virtue relying, and forsaking God: this is that strong man, who saith, “I will set my seat by the north, and I will be like the Most High.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13.
Read the whole comment“In the north indeed is the devil, who said, “I will sit in the sides of the north; I will be like the Most High;” but Thou hast humbled, as one wounded, the proud one.” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14.
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Origen
“And I shall rise against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I shall cause their name to perish, and their remains, and their seed.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 12–22.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…above the stars of God: I will sit on a lofty mountain, above the lofty mountains to the north: I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the Most High.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14.
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Gregory the Great
“Who even said, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit upon the mount of the testament, in the sides of the North: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High (Isai. xiv. 13).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…I will sit upon the mount of the testament, in the sides of the North, and will ascend above the heights of the clouds, and I will be like the most High (Isai. xiv. 13).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Nay, aspiring to a singular eminence, and despising the social life of the angels, he says, I will place my seat in the north, and I will be like unto the Most High (Isai. xiv. 13).” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Isaiah 14:13.)” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“Such an one was he that saith, “I will exalt my throne above the Heavens.”and did not account himself to be worthy so much as of the title of the apostles, after so many and so great deeds of goodness.” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, τν στρων το ορανοἐλαχιστοτρον, here ἐσχτον.
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Aphrahat
“Now Nebuchadnezzar said:—I will ascend to heaven and exalt my throne above the stars of God and sit in the lofty mountains that are in the borders of the North.” — editor's note: Is. xiv. 13.
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Tertullian
“Undoubtedly he who has raised up “children of disobedience” against the Creator Himself ever since he took possession of that “air” of His; even as the prophet makes him say: “I will set my throne above the stars;…I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 13, 14. An inexact quotation from the Septuagint.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Prepare thy children for slaughter, for the sins of thy father, that they rise not, neither possess my land.”” — editor's note: Isa. xiv. 4–21.
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Cross-references · 24
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions X.36.
Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 8:26–39 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions X.36.
Cited together in Confessions X.36.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions X.36.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.4.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.4.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.4.
Cited together in The Institutes XII.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions X.36.
Cited together in Confessions X.36.
Cited together in Confessions X.36.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.11.