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Isaiah 6:5

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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

  • §208Paragraph 1 · I Believe in GodRead at vatican.va

    “I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips."” — Catechism footnote: Is 6:5

In the Old Testament

  • §2584Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

    “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.

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  • “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.

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  • “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…

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  • “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 Chrysostom

Gregory the Great

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  • Luke 2:30 takes up the words of Isaiah 6:5 (5 words in common).

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