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The Prophet Isaiah, Michelangelo

Isaiah 49:8

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

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Isaiah 49:8 (WEB)

The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

Fathers and councils · 8

Origen

  • “…to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritage; saying to the prisoners, Go forth; and to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves.”” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. xlix. 8, 9.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

Justin Martyr

Augustine of Hippo

Athanasius of Alexandria

Jerome

  • “She used to say that, although to human impatience the time might seem slow in coming, yet that it would not be long but that presently help would come from God who says: “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlix. 8.

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Cited together with

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 122.

  • Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 104.

  • Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 104.

  • Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 104.

  • Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 104.

  • Cited together in Against Celsus I.53.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 122.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 122.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 122.

  • Cited together in Against Celsus I.53.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 122.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 122.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 122.

  • Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Quoted in

  • 2 Corinthians 6:2 takes up the words of Isaiah 49:8 (11 words in common).

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