Isaiah 65:2 (WEB)
I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Fathers and councils · 13
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…given Him to drink; and that He should be forsaken by His friends and those nearest to Him; and that He should stretch forth His hands the whole day long; and that He should be mocked and maligned by those who looked upon Him; and that His garments should be parted, and lots cast upon His raiment; and that He…” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 2.
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John Damascene
“The mighty Moses cried, You will see your life hanging on the tree before your eyes, and Isaiah likewise, I have spread out my hands all the day unto a faithless and rebellious people.” — editor's note: Isai. lxv. 2.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But He answers and says, All day long have I stretched forth Mine hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 2. “It is a commonplace in patristic literature that the Crucifixion was prefigured by Isa. lxv. 2.” (Dr. C. Taylor, Hermas and the Four Gospels, p.…
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.22Conference III
“And this the Lord was wont to do not only by means of the written law, but also by daily exhortations, as this which is given by Isaiah: “All day long have I stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and gain-saying people.”” — editor's note: Is. lxv. 2.
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Justin Martyr
“‘For I was manifest to them that sought Me not; I was found of them that asked not for Me;’ He exclaims by Isaiah: ‘I said, Behold Me, unto nations which were not called by My name.” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“And Isaiah likewise mentions concerning Him the manner in which He would die, thus: ‘I have spread out My hands unto a people disobedient, and gainsaying, that walk in a way which is not good.’” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 2; comp. also Rom. x. 21.
Read the whole comment“And when He says again, ‘I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people;’ and when He says, ‘Lord, who hath believed our report?’—the words are spoken as if announcing events which had already come to pass.” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…people saw the same works, another Prophet saith, “I have spread out my hands all day unto a rebellious people, that believes not, but contradicts.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 2.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For of whom do the prophets say: “I was made manifest to them that sought me not, I was found of them that asked not for me: I said Behold, here am I, to the nation that had not called upon my name; I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 1, 2; cf. Rom. x. 20, sq.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“I have spread out My hands all the day to an unbelieving and gainsaying people.” — editor's note: Isai. lxv. 1, 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly, for we have forgotten Thy commandments and walked after our own evil thought, for we have behaved ourselves unworthily of the calling and gospel of Thy Christ, and of His holy sufferings and humiliation for us; we have become a reproach…” — editor's note: Isai. lxv. 2.
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Leo the Great
“For thou didst draw all things unto Thee, Lord and when Thou hadst stretched out Thy hands all the day, long to an unbelieving people that gainsaid Thee, the whole world at last was brought to confess Thy majesty.” — editor's note: Cf. Is. lxv. 2.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In Isaiah: “I have spread out my hands all day to a people disobedient and contradicting me, who walk in ways that are not good, but after their own sins.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxv. 2. [So Justin, vol. i. pp. 179 and 206. But compare Isa. xxv. 11, a remarkable simile.]
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Cross-references · 22
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §37.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §37.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.22.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §37.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
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