Isaiah 44:6 (WEB)
This is what the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
Catechism · 2
I Believe in God the Father
“Our profession of faith begins with God, for God is the First and the Last,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 44:6.
I Believe in God
“God is unique; there are no other gods besides him.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 44:6
Fathers and councils · 10
Tertullian
“God will say, “I am the first!”” — editor's note: Isa. xli. 4; xliv. 6; xlviii. 12.
Read the whole comment“…interests, that Christ should not be supposed to have come from another God, but from Him who had already said, “I 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. xlv. 5, 18; xliv. 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“Accordingly when the Father is called the only God, and we read that there is one God, and ‘I am,’ and ‘beside Me there is no God,’ and ‘I the first and I the last,’ this has a fit meaning.” — editor's note: Ex. iii. 14; Deut. xxxii. 39, LXX.; Is. xliv. 6
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Now they seek to exhibit the foundation for their dogma by citing the word in the law, “I am the God of your fathers: ye shall have no other gods beside me;” and again in another passage, “I am the first,” He saith, “and the last; and beside me there is none other.”” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 6.
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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.
Read the whole comment“I have read of a first God, I have heard of a first and only God.” — editor's note: Isa. xliv. 6.
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John Chrysostom
“And what mean the expressions, “I am the first and I am the last” ( Is. xliv. 6 ); and, “before Me was no other God formed”? ( Is. xliii. 10.)” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“XXIII. “If any man after the example of the Jews understands as said for the destruction of the Eternal Only-begotten God the words, I am the first God, and I am the last God, and beside Me there is no God, which were spoken for the destruction of idols and them that are no gods: let him be anathema.” — editor's note: Isai. xliv. 6.
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Basil the Great
“For “I,” God, “am the first, and I am the last.”” — editor's note: Is. xliv. 6.
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Aphrahat
“That no one should suppose that there is another God, either before or afterwards, he said:—From age and unto age, just as Isaiah said:—I am the first and I am the last.” — editor's note: Is. xliv. 6; xlviii. 12.
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Cross-references · 11
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 Exposition of the Christian Faith V.10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.10.
Cited together in Catechism §212.
Cited together in Catechism §212.
Cited together in Catechism §212.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 6.