Isaiah 50:6 (WEB)
I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
Catechism · 1
“The Messiah's characteristics are revealed above all in the "Servant songs."” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Isa 42:1-9; cf. Mt 12:18-21; Jn 1:32-34; then cf. Isa 49:1-6; cf. Mt 3:17; Lk 2:32; finally cf. Isa 50:4-10 and Isa 52:13-53:12.
Fathers and councils · 15
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…as one who knew what it was to bear infirmity, and sitting upon the foal of an ass, He should come to Jerusalem; and that He should give His back to stripes, and His cheeks to palms [which struck Him]; and that He should be led as a sheep to the slaughter; and that He should have vinegar and gall given Him to drink;…” — editor's note: Isa. l. 6.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…these things, was afterward Himself an actor in them,) I gave My back to the scourges; (for Pilate, when he had scourged Him, delivered Him to be crucified;) and My cheeks to smitings; and My face I turned not away from the shame of spittings; saying, as it were, “Though knowing before that they will smite Me, I…” — editor's note: Isa. l. 6.; Matt. xxvii. 26.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“I hid not my face from the filthiness of spitting.”” — editor's note: Isa. l. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, I did not turn away my face from the foulness of spitting, and God was my helper.”” — editor's note: Isa. l. 5–7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Ye have heard, while the prophet was being read, how He “did not turn away His back from the smiters, and His face from the spittings of men,” how “He turned not His cheek from their hands;” wherefore chose He to suffer all these things, but that He might console the suffering?” — editor's note: Isa. l. 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…not again, when He suffered He threatened not, but He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to buffetings, and turned not His face from spitting; and at last, was willingly led to death, that we might behold in Him the image of all that is virtuous and immortal, and that we, conducting ourselves after…” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 23; Isa. l. 6.
Read the whole comment“And being by nature intangible, the Word yet said, ‘I gave My back to the stripes, and My cheeks to blows, and hid not My face from shame and spitting.’” — editor's note: Isa. l. 6.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
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““They spit in his face, and buffeted him,” to fulfil the prophecy of Esaias, “I gave my cheek to the smiters, and turned not away my face from shame and spitting.” [Isa 50:6]” — the author cites it
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“Had ye indeed ever read, “I hid not my face from the shame of spitting;” [Is 50:6] or that again, :They pierced my hands and my feet, they told all my bones.” [Ps 22:16] Where have ye ever read that the Lord came down from the cross?” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“But I prefer to be a disciple of Him who says, “I gave my back to the smiters…I hid not my face from shame and spitting.”” — editor's note: Isa. l. 6.
Read the whole comment“A bishop that is a striker is condemned by Him who gave His back to the smiters, and when He was reviled reviled not again.” — editor's note: Isa. l. 6.
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Tertullian
““He gave His back to scourges, and His cheeks to blows, not turning His face even from the shame of spitting.”” — editor's note: Isa. l. 6, Sept.
Read the whole comment“I hid not my face from shame and spitting.”” — editor's note: Ch. l. 6, slightly altered.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Therefore I was not rebellious, neither turned away back, saith my Lord, when, instead of being called to rule, He was led, as a sheep to the slaughter; but I fell down and humbled myself under the mighty hand of God, and asked pardon for my former idleness and disobedience, if this is at all laid to my charge.” — editor's note: Isai. l. 6.
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Leo the Great
“For He Himself says by Isaiah, “I gave My back to the scourges, My cheeks to the palms of the hand, I turned not My face from the shame of spitting.”” — editor's note: Is. l. 6.
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Cross-references · 33
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:59–68 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:59–68 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:59–68 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:59–68 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:59–68 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:59–68 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Leo the Great on Matthew 27:39–44 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in Leo the Great on Matthew 27:39–44 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.