Isaiah 45:2 (WEB)
“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.
Fathers and councils · 3
Tertullian
“In all which places the name of the Christ who is already come reigns, as of Him before whom the gates of all cities have been opened, and to whom none are closed, before whom iron bars have been crumbled, and brazen gates opened.” — editor's note: See Isa. xlv. 1, 2 (especially in Lowth’s version and the LXX.).
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John Cassian
“…the mighty ones of the land, I will break the gates of brass, and cut asunder the iron bars, and I will open to thee concealed treasures and hidden secrets”—so that the word of the Lord may go before us also, and first may bring low the mighty ones of our land, i.e. these same evil passions which we are desirous to…” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 2, 3.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And by Isaiah it is said, “I was found of them that sought Me not; I was made manifest to them that inquired not after Me,”—manifestly previous to the coming of the Lord; after which to Israel, the things prophesied, are now appropriately spoken: “I have stretched out My hands all…” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 2; Rom. x. 20, 21.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in The Institutes V.2.