Isaiah 8:9 (WEB)
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Fathers and councils · 3
Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“For a virgin conceived, and bare Emmanuel, which, when interpreted, signifies, “God with us: know it, O nations, and be overcome.”” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. viii. 8, 9. Quoted from the Septuagint.
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“…and as the same prophet says, the prediction has been fulfilled, “God (is) with us; know it, O nations, and be overcome; ye who are strong, be vanquished:” for we of the heathen have been overcome and vanquished, we who have been taken by the grace of His teaching.” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. viii. 8, 9.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For though they ‘gird themselves’ they ‘shall be broken in pieces,’ according to the solemn prophecy of Isaiah.”” — editor's note: Is. viii. 9, lxx. ἐὰν γὰρ πάλιν ἰσχύσητε πάλιν ἡττηθήσεσθε
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