Isaiah 26:18 (WEB)
We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Fathers and councils · 8
Catena Aurea on Luke
- A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
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John Damascene
“Further Isaiah says: The dead shall rise again, and they that are in the graves shall awake.” — editor's note: Is. xxvi. 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
“See the same conception of pain and travail: “Of Thy fear” (saith Isaiah) “we have conceived, we have travailed of the Spirit of salvation.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“It is good for thee, O virgin soul, that thus, as thou art a virgin, thus altogether keeping in thy heart that thou hast been born again, keeping in thy flesh that thou hast been born, thou yet conceive of the fear of the Lord, and give birth to the spirit of salvation.” — editor's note: Is. xxvi. 18. See LXX.
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Jerome
“And when you have gone to the prophetess, and have conceived in the womb, and have brought forth a son, say: “Lord, we have been with child by thy fear, we have been in pain, we have brought forth the spirit of thy salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 18, Vulg.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Go, O my people, and enter into thy chambers; hide thyself for a little until the Lord’s wrath pass by.”” — editor's note: Is. xxvi. 18–21 [LXX.].
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.19On Virginity
“The one cries, “From fear of Thee, O Lord, have I conceived;” the other boasts that he is the parent of the largest family of any, bringing to the birth whole cities and nations; not the Corinthians and Galatians only…” — editor's note: Gregory here quotes from LXX. Cf. Is. xxvi. 18, and also below, ἐτέκομεν πνεῦμα σωτηρίας σου, ὃ ἐποιήσαμεν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…to indulgence towards those who accept chastisement with fear, and who after a slight affliction conceive and are in pain with conversion, and bring forth the perfect spirit of salvation; but nevertheless he reserves the dregs, the last drop of His anger, that He may pour it out entire upon those who, instead of…” — editor's note: Ib. xxvi. 18.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in A Greek expositor on Luke 1:30–33 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in A Greek expositor on Luke 1:30–33 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
