Isaiah 6:5 (WEB)
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!”
Catechism · 2
I Believe in God
“I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips."” — Catechism footnote: Is 6:5
In the Old Testament
“At times their prayer is an argument or a complaint, but it is always an intercession that awaits and prepares for the intervention of the Savior God, the Lord of history.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Am 7:2, 5; Isa 6:5, 8, 11; Jer 1:6; 15: 15-18; 20: 7-18.
Fathers and councils · 9
Irenaeus of Lyons
“After this invisible manner, therefore, did they see God, as also Esaias says, “I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts,” pointing out that man should behold God with his eyes, and hear His voice.” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 5.
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Jerome
“Isaiah, if we follow the Hebrew, lamentsand says, “Woe is me because I have been silent, because I am a man of unclean lips: and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the Lord of Hosts.”” — editor's note: vi. 5.
Read the whole comment“Isaiah laments, saying, “Woe is me! for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips”; and afterwards one of the seraphim…” — editor's note: Is. vi. 5.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Isaiah says: “O wretched that I am, and pricked to the heart; for that being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell also in the midst of a people having unclean lips,” and do you say, “I am clean,” when, as it is written, not even an infant of a day old is pure?” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 5.
Read the whole comment“Howbeit, now must I needs confess the Prophet Isaiah’s confession, which he makes before declaring the word of the Lord: “Woe is me, my heart is smitten, for I, a man of unclean lips, and living in the midst of a people of unclean lips, have seen the Lord of Sabaoth.”” — editor's note: Is. vi. 5. Contrast the Vulgate—Vœ mihi, quia tacui, quia vir pollutus labiis ego sum, et in medio populi polluta labia habentis ego habito, et regem, Dominum…
Read the whole comment“If Isaiah had unclean lips—who said: “Woe is me, for I am undone, for I am a man, and have unclean lips”—if a prophet of the Lord had unclean lips, how shall we have them clean?” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 5.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17Conference XXIII
“…on high and the revelation of heavenly mysteries, said: “Woe is me! for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.”” — editor's note: Isa. vi. 5.
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John Chrysostom
““Woe is me! because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips” ( Isa. vi. 5 ); though he was holy and clean; but if we be compared with the holiness which is above, we are unclean.” — the author cites it
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Gregory the Great
“Let them hear how Esaias, because he had held his peace in the ministry of the word when illuminated by supernal light, blamed himself with a loud cry of penitence, saying Woe unto me that I have held my peace (Isai. vi. 5).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together with
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17.
Cited together in Catechism §208.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in Catechism §208.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.
Cited together in Catechism §208.
Cited together in Catechism §208.
Cited together in Catechism §208.
Cited together in Catechism §208.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Quoted in
Luke 2:30 takes up the words of Isaiah 6:5 (5 words in common).
