Zephaniah 3:8 (WEB)
“Therefore wait for me”, says the LORD, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Fathers and councils · 6
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.72Book VIII
“The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”” — editor's note: Zeph. iii. 7–13.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And farther on in the same context of Scripture He says, Therefore wait thou for Me, saith the Lord, until the day of My Resurrection at the Testimony.” — editor's note: Zeph. iii. 8: until the day that I rise up to the prey. For דעלְ, to the prey, the LXX. seem to have read דע“לְְ, to the testimony. About ten years before…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…of my rising up for a testimony; for my judgment is to the congregations of the nations, that I may take hold on the kings, and pour out upon them my fury.”” — editor's note: Zeph. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Also in Zephaniah: “Wait on me, saith the Lord, in the day of my rising again to witness; because my judgment is to the congregations of the Gentiles, that I may take kings, and pour out upon them my anger.”” — editor's note: Zeph. iii. 8.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Therefore, those who have parted with evil will be united with Him; and so, as the Apostle says, God will be “all in all”; for this utterance seems to me plainly to confirm the opinion we have already arrived at, for it means that God will be instead of all other things, and in all.” — editor's note: This (1 Cor. xv. 28) is a text much handled by the earlier Greek Fathers. Origen especially has made it one of the Scripture foundations upon which he has…
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Augustine of Hippo
““Wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, in the day of my resurrection, in the future; because it is my determination to assemble the nations, and gather together the kingdoms.”” — editor's note: Zeph. iii. 8.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.107.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.107.