Isaiah 40:8 (WEB)
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
Fathers and councils · 17
Athanasius of Alexandria
“For when our Lord Jesus Christ had been among us, we indeed were promoted, as rescued from sin; but He is the same; nor did He alter, when He became man (to repeat what I have said), but, as has been written, ‘The Word of God abideth for ever.’” — editor's note: Isai. xl. 8. λόγος but ῥῆμα. LXX.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Because the scroll shall be rolled together, and the grass over which it was spread shall with its goodliness pass away; but Thy Word remaineth for ever, which now appeareth unto us in the dark image of the clouds, and through the glass of the heavens, not as it is; because we also, although we be the…” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8. The law of storms, and that which regulates the motions of the stars or the ebbing and flowing of the tides, may change at the “end of the…
Read the whole comment“For, “all flesh is grass, and the glory of man as the flower of grass; the grass withereth, and the flower falleth, but the word of the Lord abideth for ever.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“For, “All flesh is grass, and the brightness of man as the bloom of grass: the grass hath withered, and the bloom hath fallen down: but the word of the Lord abideth for everlasting.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
Read the whole comment““For all flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of man as the flower of the field; the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of the Lord abideth for ever.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 8.
Read the whole comment“This which is so very beautiful, this quickly falleth.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
Read the whole comment““But the word of the Lord that endureth for ever,” as it is mocked by the vanity of the falsely happy, so will laugh at the perdition of the same when truly miserable.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 8.
Read the whole comment“The hay will burn; but “the word of the Lord abideth for evermore.”…” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 8. [On this subject see p. 99, note 2, supra. But it is well to study this and other Fathers passim on this most perplexing matter. Comp. Acts xv. 28,…
Read the whole comment“The grass withereth, the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever.’” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 8; 1 Pet. i. 24, 25
Read the whole comment““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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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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Gregory of Nyssa
““Verily the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. i. 24; Is. xl. 8.
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Basil the Great
““All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.…The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”” — editor's note: Is. xl. 6, 8.
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Tertullian
““For,” as says Isaiah: “the word of our God shall stand for ever.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 8.
Read the whole comment“And so Isaiah predicted that it should.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 8.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Et omnis caro fenum, et omnis gloria ejus quasi flos feni; et fenum quidem exsiccatur, flos autem decidit, sed verbum Domini manet,” quod unxit artimam et uniit spiritui.” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6, 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“…is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: the grass is withered, and the flower has fallen; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever;” let him hear the Spirit interpreting the matter in question by Jeremiah, “And I scattered them like dry sticks, that are made to fly by the wind into the…” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 6–8.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 16.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 16.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.