Isaiah 40:17 (WEB)
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Fathers and councils · 6
Gregory of Nyssa
“…in Whom are all things, Who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and hath meted out heaven with the span, Who measureth the water in the hollow of his hand, Who holdeth in His hand all things that are, Who dwelleth on high and looketh upon the things that are lowly, or rather did look upon them to make all the…” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. xl. 12–22.
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Jerome
“Is. xl. 17.” — the author cites it
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Justin Martyr
“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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Ambrose of Milan
“Who was His helper, when He made the heavens,—Who, when He laid the foundations of the world?” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4–6; Isa. xl. 12–17.
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Tertullian
“But when the same prophet represents to us even nations sometimes estimated as “the small dust of the balance,” and as “less than nothing, and vanity,” and sometimes as about to hope and “trust in the name” and arm of the Lord, are we at all misled respecting the Gentile nations by the diversity of statement?” — editor's note: Ver. 17. The word is spittle, which the LXX. uses in the fifteenth verse for the “dust” of the Hebrew Bible.
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Aphrahat
“For destruction and the sword are they esteemed by Him.” — editor's note: Is. xl. 15, 17.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 59.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 59.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 59.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 59.