Isaiah 61:8 (WEB)
“For I, the LORD, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Fathers and councils · 3
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…I loved, but Esau have I hated;’ and in Isaiah there is the voice of God again saying, ‘I the Lord love righteousness, and hate robbery of unrighteousness.’” — editor's note: Is. lxi. 8.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22Conference XXI
“For those offerings of fasts, which we thoughtlessly extort by violently tearing our bowels, and fancy that we rightly offer to the Lord, these He execrates who “loves mercy and judgment” saying: “I the Lord love judgment, but I hate robbery in a burnt offering.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxii. (xxxiii.) 5; Is. lxi. 8.
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Gregory the Great
“For hence it is that the Lord through the prophet rejects even sacrifices themselves, saying, I the Lord love judgment, and I hate robbery in a whole burnt offering (Isai. lxi. 8).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.22.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.22.