Isaiah 27:1 (WEB)
In that day, the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Fathers and councils · 7
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Has the city just now no baths? take notice that it is the dragon of the sea who is laying these plots against thee.” — editor's note: Is. xxvii. 1.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“She was preserved thus for another contest, that, being victorious in more conflicts, she might make the punishment of the crooked serpent irrevocable; and, though small and weak and despised, yet clothed with Christ the mighty and conquering Athlete, she might arouse the zeal of the brethren, and, having…” — editor's note: Compare Isa. xxvii. 1, which is possibly referred to here.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.8Book II
“And elsewhere the prophet says, “I will draw out my holy sword upon the dragon the flying serpent, upon the dragon the crooked serpent, and will slay him.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxvii. 1.
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“Isaiah says that the sword of the Lord arises against the dragon, the crooked serpent.” — editor's note: Isa. xxvii. 1.
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Justin Martyr
“Will the serpent, then, which (I have already said) God had in the beginning cursed and cut off by the great sword, as Isaiah says, be understood as having preserved at that time the people? and shall we receive these things in the foolish acceptation of your teachers, and [regard] them not as signs?” — editor's note: Isa. xxvii. 1.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For that dread Leviathan that is, the devil, He smote, and struck down, and laid low in the last times by the adorable Passion of His own Body.” — editor's note: Isa. xxvii. 1.
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Tertullian
“So also Isaiah: “In that day the Lord God shall draw His sacred, great, and strong sword” (even His Christ) “against that dragon, that great and tortuous serpent; and He shall slay him in that day.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxvii. 1, Sept.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 112.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 112.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 112.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.