Jeremiah 23:24 (WEB)
Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.
Fathers and councils · 26
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.5Book IV
“Nor is he able to understand the words, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Cf. Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus IV.12Book IV
“And if the voices of the prophets say that God “comes down,” who has said, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord,” the term is used in a figurative sense.” — editor's note: Cf. Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment “And it is absurd, when He who fills heaven and earth, and who said, “Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord,” is with us, and near us (for I believe Him when He says, “I am a God nigh at hand, and not afar off, saith the Lord”) to seek to pray to sun or moon, or one of…” — editor's note: Cf. Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment- Origen, De Principiis II.1Book II
“This also, I think, is indicated in sacred Scripture 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…” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
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John Damascene
“Again, how will it also be maintained that God permeates and fills the universe? as the Scriptures say, Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For where outside heaven and earth can I go that from thence my God may come into me who has said, I fill heaven and earth”?” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“And who is this but our God, the God that created heaven and earth, and filleth them, because by filling them He created them?” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Is not the beauty of the field in a manner with Him, inasmuch as He is everywhere, and Himself hath said, “Heaven and earth I fill”?” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“…it is rightly said, that God stands in the congregation of men invisibly, as He fills heaven and earth, which He asserts of Himself by the Prophet’s mouth; and He is not only said, but is, in a way, known to stand in those things which He hath created, as far as the human mind can conceive, if man also stands and…” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“It is not without some reason, therefore, that Varro thought that Jove was worshipped by the Jews; for the God of the Jews says by His prophet, “I fill heaven and earth.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“For consider that, too, which is written in the prophet, that God said, “Do not I fill heaven and earth?”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24
Read the whole comment“Lo in thy flight thou hast passed the heavens, He is there; thou hast descended into hell, He is there; whatever deserts of the earth thou shalt choose, there is He, who hath said, “I fill heaven and earth.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“…anywhere see, received also their form, not from without, but from the secret and profound might of the Creator, who said, “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” and whose wisdom it is that “reacheth from one end to another mightily; and sweetly doth she order all things.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“For though we say that God is in heaven and on earth, as He, Himself says by the prophet, “I fill heaven and earth,” we do not mean that there is one part of God in heaven and another part on earth; but He is all in heaven and all on earth, not at alternate intervals of time,…” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“For the voice of God with the prophet is, “I fill heaven and earth.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Where is He not, who said, “I fill heaven and earth”?” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For if ‘the Lord saith, do not I fill heaven and earth,’ as says Jeremiah, and God contains all things, and is contained of none, on what kind of throne does He sit?” — editor's note: Jerem. xxiii. 24
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Ambrose of Milan
“God, indeed, never descends from any place; for He says: “I fill heaven and earth.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“For it is of the Lord to fill all things, Who says: “I fill heaven and earth.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Do not I fill heaven and earth?”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 23, 24.
Read the whole comment“Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 23, 24.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Fearful also His filling of the universe, so that it is impossible anywhere to escape the action of God, not even by flying up to heaven, or entering Hades, or by escaping to the far East, or concealing ourselves in the depths and ends of the sea.” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
Read the whole comment“VIII. And how shall we preserve the truth that God pervades all things and fills all, as it is written “Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord,” and “The Spirit of the Lord filleth the world,” if God partly contains and partly is contained?” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 24.
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: Jer. xxiii. 24.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Shall one do aught in secret, and I see him not?”” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 23, 24.
Read the whole comment““I am a God at hand,” it is said by Jeremiah, “and not a God afar off.” — editor's note: Jer. xxiii. 23, 24.
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Cited together in Confessions IV.9.
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Cited together in De Principiis II.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions I.2.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.7.
Cited together in Confessions IV.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.57.
Cited together in De Principiis II.1.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.7.
Cited together in Confessions IV.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.7.
Cited together in Confessions I.2.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.57.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.7.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
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Isaiah 21:3 and Jeremiah 23:24 share the same wording (9 words).
