Isaiah 58:7 (WEB)
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Catechism · 1
“The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Isa 58:6-7; Heb 13:3.
Fathers and councils · 27
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.14Conference XXI
“Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and He shall say, Here am I.” You see then that fasting is certainly not considered by the Lord as a thing that is good in its own nature, because it becomes good and well-pleasing to God…” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 3–9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Let us break our bread to the hungry, and let us bring the houseless poor to our house.” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore do I break my bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked, and take home to mine house him who hath no shelter, putting faith in that which is written?” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“You have heard from Isaiah, “Break thy bread to the hungry;” think not that fasting by itself is sufficient.” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment““Break thy bread to the hungry, and the needy without covering bring into thy house; if thou seest one naked, clothe him.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…is wrought, when thou breakest bread to the hungry, the poor without roof thou bringest into thy house; if thou shalt have seen one naked, thou coverest him: lastly, the Martyrs themselves also imitating the Lord, blood for the Church shedding, hearing that voice, “As Christ laid down His life for us, so also ought…” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment““Break thy bread to the hungry, and bring the poor and roofless into thy house; and if thou see one naked, clothe him:” and other such things which are commanded us we work only through the flesh.…We speak, brethren, what ye know: how many seem to do good works without the…” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“And we are at work with our hands when we do this, “Break thy bread to the hungry, and bring the houseless poor into thine house.” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“And what is this something useful with the hands, but, “Break thy bread to the hungry, and bring the houseless poor into thy house”?” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Thy light is thy God, a “morning light” to thee, because He shall come to thee after the night of this world: for He neither rises nor sets, because He is ever abiding.” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7, 8.
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Justin Martyr
“…as thy soul desireth, and thy bones shall become fat, and shall be as a watered garden, and as a fountain of water, or as a land where water fails not.’” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 1–12.
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John Chrysostom
““Them that pertain to thy seed thou shalt not overlook.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7, LXX.
Read the whole comment“Then thou shalt call upon me, and I will give ear unto thee; whilst thou art yet speaking, I will say, Lo! here I am.”” — editor's note: Is. lviii. 6–9. [LXX., see note above.]
Read the whole comment““Bring in the poor that are cast out to thy house; if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and them that belong to thy seed thou shalt not overlook.”” — editor's note: Is. lviii. 7.
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Tertullian
“…authoritatively declared, “Not such a fast hath the Lord elected,” that is, not abstinence from food, but the works of righteousness, which he there appends: and that the Lord Himself in the Gospel has given a compendious answer to every kind of scrupulousness in regard to food; “that not by such things as are…” — editor's note: See Isa. lviii. 3–7.
Read the whole comment“…“deal their bread to the hungry; bring the outcast into their house; cover the naked, when they see him; nor hide themselves from their own flesh and kin:” “keep their tongue from evil, and their lips from speaking guile: depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it:” be angry, and sin not; that is,…” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7, slightly changed from the second to the third person.
Read the whole comment“This, however, was not the case with my God, for He always and everywhere enjoined that the poor, and the orphan, and the widow should be protected, assisted, refreshed; thus by Isaiah He says: “Deal thy bread to the hungry, and them that are houseless bring into thine house; when thou seest the naked, cover him.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“This injunction will be of a piece with, “Deal thy bread to the hungry; and if he be houseless, bring him into thine house; and if thou seest the naked, cover him;” also with, “Judge the fatherless, plead with the widow.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Precisely such as he had pointed out by Isaiah: “Deal thy bread to the hungry man; and the beggars—even such as have no home—bring in to thine house,” because, no doubt, they are “unable to recompense” your act of humanity.” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Now, although Zacchæus was probably a Gentile, he yet from his intercourse with Jews had obtained a smattering of their Scriptures, and, more than this, had, without knowing it, fulfilled the precepts of Isaiah: “Deal thy bread,” said the prophet, “to the hungry, and bring the poor that are cast out into thine house.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Then shalt thou call, and God shall hear thee; and while thou shalt yet speak, He shall say, Here I am.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 6–9.
Read the whole comment“Then shalt thou cry, and God shall hear thee; whilst yet thou art speaking, He shall say, Here I am.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 1–9.
Read the whole comment“Then thou shalt cry out, and God shall hear thee; while thou art yet speaking, He shall say, Here I am.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 1–9.
Read the whole comment“Of this same thing in Isaiah: “If thou shalt see the naked, clothe him; and despise not those who are of the household of thine own seed.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…them to break their bread to the hungry, to gather together the poor that have no shelter, to cover their nakedness and not neglect those of the same blood, and now especially that we may gain a benefit from our need instead of from abundance, a result which pleases God more than plentiful offerings and large gifts.” — editor's note: Isai. lviii. 7.
Read the whole comment“For by his word and advice he opened the stores of those who possessed them, and so, according to the Scripture dealt food to the hungry, and satisfied the poor with bread, and fed them in the time of dearth, and filled the hungry souls with good things.” — editor's note: Isai. lviii. 7.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Then shall thou call, and God will hear thee; whilst thou art yet speaking, He will say, I am here.”” — editor's note: Isa. lviii. 7, 8, 9.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.14.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.76.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.37.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.76.