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Romans 9:28 (WEB)
for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

Fathers and councils · 8

John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 11
“I may add, that Paul too was setting forth the same, when he said, “A short wordwill the Lord make upon the whole world.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 28.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 120
“(10) What is the meaning of the passage, Rom. ix. 14–29?” — the author cites it
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John Cassian, On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VI.3Book VI
“…Creed, according to the Apostle’s words: “Completing His word, and cutting it short in righteousness: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 28.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 16
“By this a crew of fishermen have taken the whole world in the meshes of the Gospel-net, and overcome by a word finished and cut short the wisdom that comes to naught.” — editor's note: Isai. x. 22, 23 (LXX.); Rom. ix. 28.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 27
“…oppositions of science falsely so called, and strifes about words, which tend to no profit; for so Paul, the Preacher and Establisher of the “Word cut short,” the disciple and teacher of the Fishermen, calls all that is excessive or superfluous in discourse.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 28.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVII.5Book XVII
“But what is that he says, “With a piece of money,” if not the short word of faith, about which the apostle quotes the saying, “A consummating and shortening word will the Lord make upon the earth?”” — editor's note: Isa. xxxviii. 22; Rom. ix. 28.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVIII.46Book XVIII
“And very many of them, considering this, even before His passion, but chiefly after His resurrection, believed on Him, of whom it was predicted, “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.”” — editor's note: Isa. x. 22, as in Rom. ix. 27, 28.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.16Book IV
“…to a compendious formula, because (as it was predicted in another passage) the Lord—that is, Christ—“was to make (or utter) a concise word on earth.”” — editor's note: “Recisum sermonem facturus in terris Dominus.” This reading of Isa. x. 23 is very unlike the original, but (as frequently happens in Tertullian) is close upon…
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