Isaiah 64:2 (WEB)
as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
Fathers and councils · 3
Cyril of Jerusalem
“And if the Psalmist says, Let them be troubled from His countenance, the Father of the fatherless, and Judge of the widows, is it not manifest to all, that when God is called the Father of orphans who have lately lost their own fathers, He is so named not as begetting them of…” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 5. Cyril quotes as usual from the Septuagint (Ps. lxvii. 6), where the clause ταραχθήσονται ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, answering to nothing in the Hebrew,…
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Clement of Alexandria
“Let us worship Him of whom the prophet says, “Before Thy face the hills shall melt, as wax melteth before the fire!”” — editor's note: Isa. lxiv. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“For in these he indicates these prophetic utterances: “If Thou openest the heaven, trembling shall seize the mountains from Thy presence; and they shall melt, as wax melteth before the fire;” and in Isaiah, “Who hath measured the heaven with a span, and the whole earth with His fist?” — editor's note: Isa. lxiv. 1, 2; xl. 12.
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