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The Prophet Isaiah, Michelangelo

Isaiah 49:16

Michelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509, Sistine Chapel

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Isaiah 49:16 (WEB)

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

Fathers and councils · 3

Irenaeus of Lyons

  • “But in the times of the kingdom, the earth has been called again by Christ [to its pristine condition], and Jerusalem rebuilt after the pattern of the Jerusalem above, of which the prophet Isaiah says, “Behold, I have depicted thy walls upon my hands, and thou art always in my sight.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlix. 16.

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Catena Aurea on Luke

  • Gregory of NyssaCatena Aurea on Luke

    “Now Isaiah says of the heavenly Jerusalem, which is no other than Paradise, Upon my hands I have painted thy walls; (Is.” — the author cites it

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John Chrysostom

  • “And when the Jews used ten thousand means, plotting and casting men out of their synagogues, He telleth them that all their contrivances are useless and vain; “For the sheep are in My Father’s hand”; as the Prophet saith, “Upon My hand I have pictured thy walls.” ( Isa. xlix. 16.)” — the author cites it

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Cross-references · 3

  • Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 23:44–46 (2) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 23:44–46 (2) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 23:44–46 (2) (Catena Aurea).

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