Isaiah 44:24 (WEB)
The LORD, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am the LORD, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
Catechism · 1
“Creation is revealed as the first step towards this covenant, the first and universal witness to God's all-powerful love. and so, the truth of creation is also expressed with growing vigour in the message of the prophets, the prayer of the psalms and the liturgy, and in the wisdom sayings of the Chosen People.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 44:24; Ps 104; Prov 8:22-31.
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
““I,” says the Lord, “have stretched out the heavens alone.”” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 24.
Read the whole comment“…am God and there is none other beside me,” who shows us that He is the only God, but in company with His Son, with whom “He stretcheth out the heavens alone.”” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 24.
Read the whole comment“The utterance, therefore, will be in like manner the Son’s, “I have stretched out the heavens alone,” because by the Word were the heavens established.” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 24.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.2Discourse III
“And when the Prophet says concerning the creation, ‘That stretcheth forth the heavens alone,’ and when God says, ‘I only stretch out the heavens,’ it is made plain to every one, that in the Only is signified also the Word of the Only, in whom ‘all things were made,’ and without whom ‘was made not one thing.’” — editor's note: Isai. xliv. 24.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But that they may know, when they see the word “alone,” that the Son is in no wise to be separated from the Father, let them remember it was said by God in the Prophets: “I stretched forth the heavens alone.”” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 24.
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John Chrysostom
“…to idols; “Let the gods perish,” says one “who have not made heaven and earth” ( Jer. x. 11 ): and again, “I have stretched out the heaven with My hand” ( Is. xliv. 24 ); and it is as declaring it to be indicative of Divinity, that He everywhere puts it.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 18.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 18.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 6.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 6.
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 the Arians III.2.
Cited together in Against the Arians III.2.
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 Hermogenes Chapter 6 and 1 other place.