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
“For these words are evidently spoken with reference to the Creator, as also Esaias says: “Heaven is my throne, the earth is my footstool.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
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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
“Is. lxvi. 1, 2.” — the author cites it
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John Damascene
“For this is His rest and the earth is His footstool.” — editor's note: Isai. lxvi. 1.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Heaven is His throne, but higher is He that sitteth thereon: and earth is His footstool, but His power reacheth unto things under the earth.” — editor's note: Is. lxvi. 1.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.1Book II
“…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
“Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool.’” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
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Clement of Alexandria
“This, says he, is the God “whose throne is heaven, and His footstool the earth; and if He open heaven, quaking will seize thee.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment““For what house will ye build to Me?” saith the Lord.” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment“Heaven is my throne,” and so on.” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment“Then, as if paraphrasing the expression, “Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool,” he adds:—” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…throne Who judgest equity,” giving the name of God’s throne to his soul, so that his body may peradventure be the earth, which is called God’s “footstool:” for “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself:” or whether the soul of the Church, perfect now and without spot and wrinkle, worthy, that is, of…” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment“For it is said even of God, “Heaven is My throne.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1; Acts vii. 49.
Read the whole comment“If therefore even thou by having the fulness of knowledge, and by having love, hast been made the throne of God, thou hast become a heaven.” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment“That of which the Lord saith, “Heaven is My seat.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment“For has not my hand made all those things?”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1, 2
Read the whole comment“But if they take a fleshly view of what is said, “The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool,”—to which passage our Lord also bears testimony, when He says, “Swear not at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is His…” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment““Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
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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
“For we read elsewhere: “The heaven is My throne, and the earth the footstool of My feet.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“What house will ye build Me or what shall be the place of My rest?” — editor's note: Ib. lxvi. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“For these things hath My hand made, and all these things are mine; that He contains all things, as Paul bears witness, For in Him we live and move and have our being, and the psalmist, Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, and whither shall I fly from Thy face?” — editor's note: Isai. lxvi. 1, 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“What is the place of his rest? and to whom shall he be likened?” — editor's note: Ib. lxvi. 1.
Read the whole comment“Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord! and what house will ye build Me? or what is the place of My rest?” — editor's note: Isai. lxvi. 1.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, The Institutes VIII.3Book VIII
“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
“For all these things hath mine hand made.”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“And upon whom else will I look, except upon the lowly and quiet man, and him that trembleth at my words?”” — editor's note: Isa. lxvi. 1, 2.
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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.
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Acts 7:49 takes up the words of Isaiah 66:1 (14 words in common).
