Isaiah 33:15 (WEB)
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
Fathers and councils · 6
Justin Martyr
“The people who are become depreciated, and there is no understanding in him who hears.’” — editor's note: Isa. xxxiii. 13–19.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…judgment” and “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil” and “He that shutteth his eyes from seeing evil and stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood.”” — editor's note: Isaiah xxxiii. 15. Observe the inversion.
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Jerome
“From these facts you in your wisdom will realize how worthy of praise our dear Lucinius shewed himself when he shut his ears that he might not have to hear the judgement passed upon blood shedders, and dispersed all his substance and gave to the poor that his righteousness might endure for ever.” — editor's note: Is. xxxiii. 15. Jerome’s allusion may be to the execution of Priscillian in 385. Lucinius may have shared the views of Ambrose and Martin against the shedding…
Read the whole comment“So when a slanderer sees anger in the countenance of his hearer who will not hear him but stops his ears that he may not hear of blood, he becomes silent on the moment, his face turns pale, his lips stick fast, his mouth becomes parched.” — editor's note: Isa. xxxiii. 15.
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Tertullian
“There also is that everlasting abode of which Isaiah asks, “Who shall declare unto you the eternal place, but He (that is, of course, Christ) who walketh in righteousness, speaketh of the straight path, hateth injustice and iniquity?”” — editor's note: Isa. xxxiii. 14–16, according to the Septuagint, which has but slight resemblance to the Hebrew.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Ye shall see the King with glory.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxxiii. 14–17.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.