Isaiah 41:4 (WEB)
Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
Fathers and councils · 6
Gregory of Nyssa
“…in his exalted utterance,—who speaks in the person of the Deity, “I am the first, and hereafter am I, and no God was before Me, and no God shall be after Me.”” — editor's note: Cf. Is. xli. 4, xliv. 6, xlviii. 12 (LXX.). If the whole passage is intended to be a quotation, it is not made exactly from any one of these; the opening words…
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Tertullian
“God will say, “I am the first!”” — editor's note: Isa. xli. 4; xliv. 6; xlviii. 12.
Read the whole comment“It must also be He who says, “I am the First, and to all futurity I AM.”” — editor's note: Isa. xli. 4 (Sept.).
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Ambrose of Milan
“…had the Son of God any beginning, seeing that He already was at the beginning, nor shall He come to an end, Who is the Beginning and the End of the Universe; for being the Beginning, how could He take and receive that which He already had, or how shall He come to an end, being Himself the End of all things, so that…” — editor's note: Rev. i. 8, 17; ii. 8; iii. 14; xxii. 13; Isa. xli. 4; xliv. 6; xlviii. 12.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
““In the Beginning was The Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” and “With Thee is the Beginning,” and “He who calleth her The Beginning from generations.”” — editor's note: Isa. xli. 4.
Read the whole comment“What are these passages?—I am the first, and I am the last, and before Me there was no God, neither shall there be after Me.” — editor's note: Isa. xli. 4.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 6.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 6.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius V.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Eunomius V.1.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.