Isaiah 41:22 (WEB)
“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
Fathers and councils · 2
Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.3Book IV
“…says, “Tell the former things which have been, and we know that ye are gods; or announce what are the last things, and then we shall see that ye are gods.”” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. xli. 22, 23.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Where the horrible and dark spectres of Hecate, and the underground puerilities and sorceries of Trophonius, or the babblings of the Dodonæan Oak, or the trickeries of the Delphian tripod, or the prophetic draught of Castalia, which could prophesy anything, except their own being brought to silence?” — editor's note: S. Jerome, commenting on Isaiah xli. 22, says: “Why could they never predict anything concerning Christ and His Apostles, or the ruin and destruction of their…
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