Isaiah 9:6 (WEB)
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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Origen
“And this was the work of one who, as the prophecy regarding Him said, was not simply an angel, but the “Angel of the great counsel:” for He announced to men the great counsel of the God and Father of all things regarding them, (saying) of those who yield themselves up to a life of pure…” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. ix. 6. [according to Sept. See vol. i. pp. 223, 236, this series.]
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“He who by his piety possesses the favour of the Most High, who has accepted the guidance of Jesus, the “Angel of the great counsel,” being well contented with the favour of God through Christ Jesus, may say with confidence that he has nothing to suffer from the whole host of demons.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6 (LXX.).
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…among us, the foundation of those ages for which we look would not have been laid; nor would the Lord have become for us “the Father of the age to come,” had not a Child been born to us, according to Isaiah, and His name been called, both all the other titles which the prophet gives Him, and withal “The Father…” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6 (LXX.). “The Everlasting Father” of the English Version.
Read the whole comment“And if he should bring forward Isaiah also as calling Him “the Angel of mighty counsel,” not even so will he overthrow our argument.” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6 (LXX.).
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was announced by the prophets, who from the fruit of David’s body was Emmanuel, “the messenger of great counsel of the Father;” through whom God caused the day-spring and the Just One to arise to the house of David, and raised up for him an horn of salvation, “and established a…” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6 (LXX.).
Read the whole comment“…the people, and humbled Himself even to death and that He is the holy Lord, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Beautiful in appearance, and the Mighty God, coming on the clouds as the Judge of all men;—all these things did the Scriptures prophesy of Him.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
Read the whole comment“…“He is a man, and who shall know him?” and, “I came unto the prophetess, and she bare a son, and His name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God;” and those [of them] who proclaimed Him as Immanuel, [born] of the Virgin, exhibited the union of the Word of God with His own workmanship, [declaring] that the…” — editor's note: Isa. viii. 3, Isa. ix. 6, Isa. vii. 14. [A confusion of texts.]
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Athanasius of Alexandria
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“For knowing that He is also called the Father’s ‘Angel of great Counsel,’ he said that none other than He was the Giver of blessing, and Deliverer from evil.” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6, LXX.
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“And all this He did, not waiting till He should receive, but being ‘possessed of power.’” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6, LXX.
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“…‘Mine is counsel,’ He must Himself be the Living Counsel of the Father; as we have learned from the Prophet also, that He becomes ‘the Angel of great Counsel,’ and was called the good pleasure of the Father; for thus we must refute them, using human illustrations concerning God.” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6.
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Tertullian
“Similarly, again, Isaiah says: “For a child is born to us, and to us is given a son.”” — editor's note: See Isa. ix. 6.
Read the whole comment“Likewise Isaiah also says: “For unto us a child is born.”” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
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John Damascene
“Others declare the perfection of subsistence, as these, Son of God, and the Express Image of His person, and Messenger of great counsel, Wonderful Counsellor, and the like.” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“…sacrifices of dead idols, and causing every beast in the form of man and every kind of savage to assault us—then, indeed, the ‘Angel of the great Council,’ the great Captain of God after the mightiest soldiers of his kingdom had displayed sufficient exercise through patience and endurance in everything, suddenly…” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. ix. 6
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Justin Martyr
“And when Isaiah calls Him the Angel of mighty counsel, did he not foretell Him to be the Teacher of those truths which He did teach when He came [to earth]?” — editor's note: [Isa. ix. 6, according to LXX.]
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Ambrose of Milan
“For this cause, then, that we might learn these divers virtues, “a Son was given us, Whose beginning was upon His shoulder.”” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6. St. Ambrose’ version is “Filius datus est nobis, cujus principium super humeros ejus.”
Read the whole comment“For that is not a baptism of men, but from heaven, which the angel of great counsel has brought to us, that we might be justified to God.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
Read the whole comment“And so because the words are those of the “Great Counsellor,” let us consider their depth.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
Read the whole comment“But you read in another place: “Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.”” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6.
Read the whole comment“And well does he say “gifts,” for as the Son was given, of Whom it is written: “Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given;” so, too, is the grace of the Spirit given.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
Read the whole comment“But He was given by the Father, as Isaiah said: “Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given;” but He was given, I dare to say it, by the Spirit also, Who was sent by the Spirit.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself is called in Prophecy, the Angel of the great Counsel, the Messenger of the great Counsel; so the Prophets called Him.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6, LXX.; Mal. iii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…equivalent to “messenger” in Latin: but we read most evidently of the Lord Jesus Christ in the prophet, that He is called “the Angel of Great Counsel,” while both the Holy Spirit and the Son of God is God and Lord of the angels.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless, what says the prophet elsewhere that not an ambassador, nor an angel, but Himself coming will save them; that is, He will not send an ambassador to save them, nor an angel, but Himself will come.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6, LXX.
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John Chrysostom
“So the “declaration” in this place shows the greater clearness of His teaching, and therefore also He is called “Word,” and “Angel of great Counsel.”” — editor's note: μεγάλης βουλῆς ἄγγελος. The LXX. version of the titles of Christ, Isa. ix. 6.
Read the whole comment“[1.] “‘ Messenger’ of great counsel” ( Isa. ix. 6 , LXX.), the Son of God is called, because of the other things which He taught, and principally because He announced the Father to men, as also now He saith, “I have manifested Thy Name unto the men.”” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For this selfsame thing also had the prophet foretold from the first,saying, “They would be glad, if they had been burnt with fire; for unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.”” — editor's note: Is. ix. 5, 6, LXX. i.e. “They (the enemies of Christ) would rather have been burned, than for this to happen.” The LXX., reading differently from the present…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And Isaiah exclaims “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called, Angel of great counsel, Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, powerful, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the Age to come.”” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6. (LXX. Alex.)
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Jerome
“But now that a virgin has conceived in the womb and has borne to us a child of which the prophet says that “Government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called the mighty God, the everlasting Father,” now the chain of the curse is broken.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
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Leo the Great
““A child is born to us, a Son is given to us, whose power is upon His shoulder, and they shall call His name the Angel of the Great Counsel, Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the age to come.”” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6. “The angel of the great counsel” (magni consilii angelus) is a translation of the LXX. (which in the rest of the verse either represents a very…
Read the whole comment“And so the Lord was handed over to their savage wishes, and in mockery of His kingly state, ordered to be the bearer of His own instrument of death, that what Isaiah the prophet foresaw might be fulfilled, saying, “Behold a Child is born, and a Son is given to us whose government is upon His shoulders.”” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6. The interpretation is fanciful, but not without some support from the parallel phrase in Is. xxii. 22.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“To-day was born the Child, and His name was called Wonder!” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
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John Cassian
“So then the same prophet says elsewhere: “For unto us a Son is born: unto us a child is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called the angel of great counsel, God the mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of peace.”” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6 where in the LXX. B reads ὅτι παιδίον ἑγεννήθη ἡμῖν, ὑιὸς καὶ ἐδόθη ἡμῖν, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐγενήθη ἐπὶ τοὺ ὤμου αὐτοῦ, καὶ καλεῖται τὸ ὄνομα αῦτοῦ Μεγάλης…
Read the whole comment“And this: “God the mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace;” and: “of His kingdom there shall be no end.”” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 9; xxv. 9; ix. 6, 7.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“The Son of God is also, according to the prophet, the Angel of great counsel.” — editor's note: Isaiah ix. 6 (LXX).
Read the whole comment“But all this applies to us men only, and not to Him, through Whom are all things, the Angel of mighty Counsel, Who said, No one knoweth the Son save the Father: neither doth any one know the Father save the Son, and him to whom the Son hath willed to reveal Him.” — editor's note: Isai. ix. 6 in the LXX and Old Latin.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“The people that sat in the darkness of ignorance, let it see the Great Light of full knowledge.” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
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Aphrahat
“And to the increase of His government and to His peace there is no end.” — editor's note: Is. ix. 6, 7.
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Clement of Alexandria
“By the same prophet is declared His greatness: “Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace; that He might fulfil His discipline: and of His peace there shall be no end.”” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In Isaiah also: “Behold, unto us a child is born, and to us a Son is given, upon whose shoulders shall be government; and His name shall be called the Messenger of a mighty thought.”” — editor's note: Isa. ix. 6.
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