Malachi 3:6 (WEB)
“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
Fathers and councils · 20
Origen
“…because it says in the supplication addressed to the Divinity, “Thou art the same,” it being, moreover, an article of faith that God has said, “I change not.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus IV.14Book IV
“We show, accordingly, that the holy Scriptures represent God as unchangeable, both by such words as “Thou art the same,” and” I change not;” whereas the gods of Epicurus, being composed of atoms, and, so far as their structure is concerned, capable of dissolution, endeavour to throw off the atoms…” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus VI.62Book VI
“And if he had read the writings of the prophets, David on the one hand saying, “But Thou art the same,” and Malachi on the other, “I am (the Lord), and change not,” he would have observed that none of us assert that there is any change in God, either in act or thought.” — editor's note: Cf. Mal. iii. 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And the Lord Himself says of Himself through the Prophet, ‘See now that I, even I am He,’ and ‘I change not.’” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 39; Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment“But the God of all, being one really and indeed and true, is faithful, who is ever the same, and says, ‘See now, that I, even I am He,’ and I ‘change not;’ and therefore His Son is ‘faithful,’ being ever the same and unchanging, deceiving neither in His essence nor in His promise;—as again says the Apostle…” — editor's note: Vid. Jer. ix. 3. and xv. 18; Deut. xxxii. 20, LXX.; ib. xxxii. 39; Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment“For the Saviour Himself says, ‘Behold, behold, it is I, and I change not,’ while Paul writes: ‘Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.’” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
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Jerome
“Job, and Zacharias, and Elizabeth, were called righteous, in respect of that righteousness which might some day turn to unrighteousness, and not in respect of that which is incapable of change, concerning which it is said,“I am God, and change not.”” — editor's note: Malach. iii. 6.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.14Conference VI
“…is unchangeable, who alone is thus addressed by the prayer of the holy prophet “But Thou art the same,” and who says of Himself “I am God, and I change not,” because He alone is by nature always good, always full and perfect, and one to whom nothing can ever be added, or from whom nothing can be taken away.” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Thou art the highest, “Thou changest not,” neither in Thee doth this present day come to an end, though it doth end in Thee, since in Thee all such things are; for they would have no way of passing away unless Thou sustainedst them.” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…saying, “Behold, He cometh, saith the Lord Almighty; and who shall abide the day of His entrance? . . . for I am the Lord your God, and I change not.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 1–6. Whole passage quoted.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And again the same God says of Himself “For I am the Lord and I change not.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6
Read the whole comment““Life then does not die, but quickens the dead; for as the light is not injured in a dark place, so life cannot suffer when it has visited a mortal nature, for the Godhead of the Word is immutable and invariable as the Lord says in the prophecy about Himself ‘I am the Lord I change not.’”” — editor's note: Malachi iii. 6
Read the whole comment““I am the Lord I change not.”” — editor's note: Malachi iii. 6
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Ambrose of Milan
“How, then, is He God if He is changeable, seeing that He Himself hath said: “I am, I am, and I change not”?” — editor's note: St. Ambrose’ version differs in expression from the Vulg.—Ego enim Dominus et non mutor (Mal. iii. 6)—but not in substance, for Ego sum Dominus and “I am the…
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Basil the Great
“But far be it from me to say or think such a thing, when God has declared, “I am the Lord, I change not.”” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…themselves certain that in the Father there is no change nor turning, because He has said through the prophet, I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed, and the apostle James, With Whom there is no change; certain also that He is the righteous Judge, for it is written, God is the righteous Judge, strong and…” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment“He Who says, I am, and I change not, can suffer neither change in detail nor transformation in kind.” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment“As the Lord said, A Spirit hath not flesh and bones: He then Who is, and changeth not, cannot have the limbs and parts of a tangible body.” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
Read the whole comment“Did He not say, I am and I change not?” — editor's note: Mal. iii. 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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Cross-references · 23
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Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
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Cited together in Against the Arians I.9.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in The City of God XX.25.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.62.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.14.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.14.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Confessions I.6 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.62.
Cited together in The City of God XX.25.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.