Isaiah 44:25 (WEB)
who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Fathers and councils · 3
Gregory of Nyssa
“What, after these have thus spoken, are the words of our ventriloquist?” — editor's note: Cf. the use of ἐγγαστρίμυθος in LXX. (e.g. Lev. xix. 31, Is. xliv. 25).
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Tertullian
“…it that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad, turning wise men backward, and making their knowledge foolish, and confirming the words of His Son?”—as, for instance, when He said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.”” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 25.
Read the whole comment“And again: “Who else shall scatter the tokens of ventriloquists, and the devices of those who divine out of their own heart; turning wise men backward, and making their counsels foolish?”” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 25, Sept.
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Cross-references · 10
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.
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.
