Wisdom 18:15 (WEB)
your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, a stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land,
Fathers and councils · 2
John Chrysostom
“For consider what a thing it is to hear, how on the one side God from Heaven, arising “out of the royal thrones, leaped down” unto the earth, and even unto hell itself, and stood in the battle array; and how the devil on the other hand set himself in array against Him; or rather not…” — editor's note: Wisd. xviii. 15.
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Basil the Great
“At one time it uses terms descriptive of His nature, for it recognises the “name which is above every name,” the name of Son, and speaks of true Son, and only begotten God, and Power of God, and Wisdom, and Word.” — editor's note: e.g., John i. 1. cf. Ps. cvii. 20; Wisdom ix. 1, xviii. 15; Ecclesiasticus xliii. 20.
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