Isaiah 48:16 (WEB)
“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord GOD has sent me with his Spirit.
Fathers and councils · 7
Origen
“And as it is a Jew who is perplexed about the account of the Holy Spirit having descended upon Jesus in the form of a dove, we would say to him, “Sir, who is it that says in Isaiah, ‘And now the Lord hath sent me and His Spirit?’”” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. xlviii. 16.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And again, I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed; and again, And now the Lord Almighty and His Spirit hath sent Me; and again, This is My covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit which is upon thee; and again, The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed…” — editor's note: Ib. xlviii. 16.
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Ambrose of Milan
“When they were made, I was there: and now hath the Lord and His Spirit sent Me.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlviii. 15, 16.
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Basil the Great
“And Isaiah, “The Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me,” and “the Spirit came down from the Lord and guided them.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlviii. 16. Mr. C. F. Johnston remarks: “In Isaiah xlviii. 16 St. Didymus, as translated by St. Jerome, gives Spiritum suum. The Targum has the same. St.…
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Augustine of Hippo
“Although, too, in the prophet Isaiah, Christ Himself is understood to say of His own future advent, “And now the Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlviii. 16
Read the whole comment“I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; when they were made, there was I. And now the Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlviii. 12-16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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