Isaiah 40:1

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  “He proclaims the imminence of the consolation of Israel; he is the "voice" of the Consoler who is coming.” — Catechism footnote: Jn 1:23; cf. Isa 40:1-3.

Justin Martyr

• Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 50

  “But Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering; and all the nations are considered nothing, and for nothing.’ ”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 1–17.

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Leo the Great

• Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 28

  “David’s Lord was made David’s Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the twofold nature joining together into one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus…” — editor's note: Germinis preferred to the older reading generis by the Ballerinii as agreeing better with Is. xl. 1 and Jer. xxiii. 5.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 7

  ““All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of the Lord abideth forever.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 1–8.

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• Isaiah 53:1

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• Jeremiah 23:5

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• Matthew 22:43

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• Matthew 22:44

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• Philippians 4:4

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• Colossians 1:18

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• Colossians 2:8

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• Colossians 2:10

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• Genesis 3:19

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• Exodus 16:6

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• Job 14:4

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• Psalm 109:1

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• Psalm 110:1

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