Isaiah 38:8 (WEB)
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.
Fathers and councils · 3
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Well then, for Ezekias’ sake the sun turned back but for Christ the sun was eclipsed, not retracing his steps, but suffering eclipse, and therefore shewing the difference between them, I mean between Ezekias and Jesus.” — editor's note: Isaiah xxxviii. 8.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord: Behold, I turn back the shadow of the degrees of the house of thy father, by which the sun has gone down, the ten degrees by which the shadow has gone down,” so that day be a day of thirty-two hours.” — editor's note: Isa. xxxviii. 5, 7, 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…Hezekiah, who was glorified by God in his sickness and prayers with an extension of life, and this was signified by the return of the shadow of the degrees, according to the request of the king who was restored, whom God honoured at once by the favour and the sign, assuring him of the extension of his days by the…” — editor's note: Isai. xxxviii. 8.
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Cross-references · 2
Parallel passages
2 Kings 20:11 and Isaiah 38:8 share the same wording (12 words).
Cited together with
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §16.