Isaiah 26:20 (WEB)
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
Fathers and councils · 8
Augustine of Hippo
“In the midst, then, of this great strife of my inner dwelling, which I had strongly raised up against my soul in the chamber of my heart, troubled both in mind and countenance, I seized upon Alypius, and exclaimed: “What is wrong with us?” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 20, and Matt. vi. 6.
Read the whole comment“…only so speakest, and I will send them away blowing upon the dust from without, and raising it up into their own eyes; and will myself enter into my chamber, and sing there unto Thee songs of love,—groaning with groaning unutterable in my pilgrimage, and remembering Jerusalem, with heart raised up towards it,…” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 20.
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Jerome
“…enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation” of the Lord “be overpast.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 20.
Read the whole comment“Then shall be fulfilled what God says by the prophet,“Go, my people, into thy closets for a little while, until mine anger pass.”” — editor's note: Is. xxvi. 20.
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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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Tertullian
“When, then, we read, “Go, my people, enter into your closets for a little season, until my anger pass away,” we have in the closets graves, in which they will have to rest for a little while, who shall have at the end of the world departed this life in the last furious onset of the power of Antichrist.” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 20.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“I held my peace, but I will not hold my peace for ever: I withdrew for a little while, till I had considered myself and consoled my grief: but now I am commissioned to exalt Him in the congregation of the people, and praise Him in the seat of the elders.” — editor's note: Ib. xxvi. 20.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And Esaias speaks thus: “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chamber, (and) shut thy door: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation of the Lord be overpast.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 20.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 27.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.8.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 27.
Cited together in Confessions XII.16.
Cited together in Confessions XII.16.
Cited together in Confessions XII.16.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 27.
Cited together in Confessions XII.16.