Isaiah 45:5 (WEB)
I am the LORD, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,
Fathers and councils · 7
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And on this account, he (the Demiurge), being incapable of recognising any spiritual essences, imagined himself to be God alone, and declared through the prophets, “I am God, and besides me there is none else.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 5, 6, Isa. xlvi. 9.
Read the whole comment“On her thus departing, he imagined he was the only being in existence; and on this account declared, “I am a jealous God, and besides me there is no one.”” — editor's note: Ex. xx. 5; Isa. xlv. 5, 6.
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Tertullian
“Therefore “there is one God,” the Father, “and without Him there is none else.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 5.
Read the whole comment“For as in the Old Testament Scriptures they lay hold of nothing else than, “I am God, and beside me there is no God;” so in the Gospel they simply keep in view the Lord’s answer to Philip, “I and my Father are one;” and, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 5.
Read the whole comment“Besides, the Demiurge had so little mastery over things, on the score, you must know, of his inability to approach spiritual essences, (constituted as he was) of animal elements, that, imagining himself to be the only being, he uttered this soliloquy: “I am God, and beside me there is none else.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 5; xlvi. 9.
Read the whole comment“Having thus Marcion in his prophetic view, he says, “I am God, and there is none else; there is no God beside me.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 5.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And (although Sophia) was really the operating cause, he himself imagines that he evolves the creation of the world out of himself: whence he commenced, saying, “I am God, and beside me there is no other.”” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 35; Isa. xlv. 5, 14, 18, 21, 22.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Against Heresies I.5 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 20.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 20.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 24.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 24.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.29.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.28.
Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 24.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 18.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 18.