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Isaiah 66:1

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Isaiah 66:1 (WEB)

The LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

Fathers and councils · 29

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “…all things that are, Who dwelleth on high and looketh upon the things that are lowly, or rather did look upon them to make all the world to be His footstool, imprinted by the footmark of the Word—the form of God is “the seal” of an “energy.”” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. lxvi. 1

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Irenaeus of Lyons

Tertullian

  • “…earth trembles, and the mountains melt like wax;” who holdeth the whole world in His hand “like a nest;” “whose throne is heaven, and earth His footstool;” in whom is every place, but Himself is in no place; who is the utmost bound of the universe;—how happens it, I say, that He (who, though) the Most High, should…” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.

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Jerome

John Damascene

Cyril of Jerusalem

Origen

  • “…by the declaration of the prophet, “Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord;” and again, “The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool;” and by the Saviour’s words, when He says that we are to swear “neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.

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  • “…nor by the earth, because it is His footstool,” harmonize most clearly with the words of the prophet, “Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool?”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.

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Justin Martyr

Clement of Alexandria

Augustine of Hippo

Catena Aurea on Matthew

  • Haymo of HalberstadtCatena Aurea on Matthew

    “Otherwise; By the mount on which the Lord sat is figured the Heaven, as it is written, “Heaven is my throne.” [Isa 66:1] But when the Lord sits on the mount, only the disciples come to Him; because before He took on Him the frailty of our human nature, God was known…” — the author cites it

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Ambrose of Milan

Hilary of Poitiers

Gregory of Nazianzus

John Cassian

  • “And He stands and sits, since He says, “Heaven is my seat, and earth the footstool for my feet:” though He “measure out the heaven with his hand, and holdeth the earth in his fist.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.

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Cyprian of Carthage

Cross-references · 27

Cited together with

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 22.

  • Cited together in Haymo of Halberstadt on Matthew 8:1–4 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.13 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.13.

  • Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

  • Cited together in De Principiis II.1.

  • Cited together in The Institutes VIII.3.

  • Cited together in Haymo of Halberstadt on Matthew 8:1–4 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in The Institutes VIII.3.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

  • Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.13.

  • Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.13.

  • Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Quoted in

  • Acts 7:49 takes up the words of Isaiah 66:1 (14 words in common).

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