Isaiah 25:8 (WEB)
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it.
Fathers and councils · 10
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Just as Esaias the prophet says, “Death devoured when it had prevailed.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxv. 8, LXX.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…dead from out their sepulchres (for these most of you have seen), this is, ‘Thou shalt not leave My soul in hades,’ and ‘He swallowed up death in strength,’ and again, ‘God will wipe away.’” — editor's note: Is. xxv. 8.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For Death prevailed and devoured; and again, God wiped away every tear from off every face.” — editor's note: Isa. xxv. 8. The first clause, He hath swallowed up death for ever (R.V.), is mistranslated in the Septuagint.
Read the whole comment“But though in former times death was mighty and devoured, at the holy Laver of regeneration God has wiped away every tear from off all faces.” — editor's note: Is. xxv. 8; Rev. vii. 17.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.3Book II
“O death, thy sting has been swallowed up: the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–56; cf. Hos. xiii. 14 and Isa. xxv. 8.
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Basil the Great
““Death in his might has swallowed up, but again the Lord hath wiped away tears from off all faces” of them that repent.” — editor's note: Is. xxv. 8, LXX.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Isaiah also, proclaiming the resurrection to the people, says that he is the announcer of the Lord’s message, for we read thus: “For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, and they shall say in that day.”” — editor's note: Is. xxv. 8, 9.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.13On Virginity
“…are no longer “multiplied,” nor does “sorrow” herald the births of men; then all calamity has been removed from life and “tears wiped from off all faces;” conception is no more an iniquity, nor child-bearing a sin; and births shall be no more “of bloods,” or “of the will of man,” or “of the will of the flesh”,…” — editor's note: Is. xxv. 8.
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Council of Ephesus (431)
“And this: “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children,” being removed through him, he showed the truth of that spoken by the prophet, “Strong death swallowed them up, and again God hath wiped away every tear from off all faces.”” — editor's note: There is a most curious blunder in the editing of this Epistle in Migne, where this passage, which is but one text, viz.: Isaiah xxv. 8 is made into two, the…
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Tertullian
“Since, therefore, shall then be accomplished the word which was written by the Creator, “O death, where is thy victory”—or thy struggle?” — editor's note: Suggested by the ἰσχυσας of Sept. in Isa. xxv. 8.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Epistle of Cyril to Nestorius with the XII. Anathematisms.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.13.
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