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
“Wherefore he has retained me for the time which he knows to be fitting, saying, ‘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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Justin Martyr
“…Thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped Thee, and I have given Thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, and to inherit the deserted.’” — editor's note: Isa. xlix. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…fulness of time came,” and “God sent His Son,” who had already said, “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee”?…I may rather call my days the days of my misery, the days of my mortality, the days according to Adam, full of toil and sweat, the days according to the…” — editor's note: Isa. xlix. 8.
Read the whole comment“This is the day whereof He said, “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of Salvation have I helped thee;” that is, a day wherein He, the Mediator, hath become the head Stone of the corner.” — editor's note: Isa. xlix. 8.
Read the whole comment“…was come, God sent forth His Son;” and God declares by the prophet, “In an acceptable time have I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee;” and yet again the apostle, “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlix. 8.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…also does He send Him not unseasonably, but seasonably, saying, ‘In an acceptable time have I heard Thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped Thee.’” — editor's note: Isa. xlix. 8.
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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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Cross-references · 15
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.
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2 Corinthians 6:2 takes up the words of Isaiah 49:8 (11 words in common).
