Where the Fathers quote Isaiah 64
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Expounded by the Fathers
Photius of ConstantinoplePG 101:288expounds v.5“συναντησεται γαρ τοις ποιουσι το δικαιον και των οδων σου μνησθησονται. ιδου συ ωργισθης και ημεις ημαρτομεν· δια τουτο επλανηθημεν.”42. Interpretation of Isaiah’s inspired words: «You were angry, and we have sinned»
1Isa 64:1
Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 30:51B…will strike his own fear into all creatures alike. Do you not hear Isaiah saying, If Thou shouldst open heaven, trembling will seize the mountains from Thee (Isa. LXIV, 1), by which he indicates that day; from…
Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 32:1309C…erish. It is not my word, but the prophet said: "If you shall open the heaven, trembling will seize the mountains from your presence, and they will melt away" (Isa. 64, 1-2). And why do you marvel if Ezekiel, hav…
Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:1013A…s goodness. For the prophet testifies that it was not done through human weakness, saying to Him: "If you open the heaven, trembling will seize the mountains" [Isa. LXIV, 1]. But just as He gave Nineveh three day…
4Isa 64:4
Hegesippus c. 110 - c. 180PG 5:1325B…en, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man." Hegesippus, however, an ancient and apostolic man, in the fifth book of his 1 I Cor. II, 9; Isa. LXIV, 4. Commentaries, I know not what he had…
Hegesippus c. 110 - c. 180PG 5:1327…the Apostolic Constitutions, book VI, chapter 16, has these things to say regarding this passage: "Because, according to the testimony of Jerome on Isaiah LXIV, 4, it was read in the apocryphal work entitled the Ascension…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 77:903D…l-wise Paul writes again: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, what things God has prepared for them that love Him" (Isa. lxiv, 4; 1 Cor. ii, 9). And although it is perm…
Isidore of Pelusium d. c. 450PG 78:165…ne must be content with one's own lot. 71. Job’s patience in calamity is proposed, and poverty. 72. On eternal blessedness. “Eye has not seen,” etc., Isaiah lxiv, 4; 1 Cor. ii, 6: “And the sufferings are not worthy,” Rom. vi…
Isidore of Pelusium d. c. 450PG 78:1369A…LXXII. — TO GENNADIUS. This life is not to be compared with eternal blessedness. "Eye hath not seen," etc. (Isa. LXIV, 4; 1 Cor. II, 9); and: "The sufferings ar…
Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 124:589D…s it is likely that it was written in these very words somewhere, and now the book is not to be found; perhaps also the most wise Paul translated that which (Isa. LXIV, 4): [translation of verse missing in text…
John VI Kantakouzenos c. 1292–1383PG 154:1163C…aiah says: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it ascended into the heart of man," the good, namely, "which God has prepared for those who love him" (Isa. LXIV, 4; I Cor. II, 9); nevertheless, as we mor…
5Isa 64:5
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:49…. i, 2, baal, בַּעַל. Psalm xlvi, ult., eg; em, cum, but when signifies people, it is read aam. Psalm xc, 9, eliôn, עֶלְיוֹן. Isaiah lxiv, 5. Theodotion, odôim, עָדִים. And so elsewhere. But with a…
Euthalius the Deacon fl. 5th c.PG 85:807A…of the wrath of the Lord, demons provoke us to vicious affections and sins, just as Isaiah says, addressing God, Behold, Thou art angry, and we have sinned (Isa. LXIV, 5). He escapes this wrath who constantly…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:319B…hine eyes to make poor and to make rich, to kill and to make alive, to smite and to heal; and Thy will is a completed action. "Thou wast angry, and we sinned" (Isa. lxiv. 5), says someone of the ancients, confess…
6Isa 64:6
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:93…han the meaning; Aquila, however, [translates] anomoiyenes, that is, "dissimilar in kind"; others interpret it as "mixture" or "mixing." And in Isaiah LXIV, 6, ‘iddim, Theodotion translates Eddim, where Aquila [tra…
Epiphanius of Salamis c. 340–404PG 89:749D…that whatever good he does within himself, he has from himself; not calling to mind Him who says: "All your righteousness before God is as a menstrual cloth" (Isa. LXIV, 6).…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:923C…. VII, 14): how shall I, given over to passions and ruined morals, be deemed worthy of salvation? If "all the righteousness of man is like a menstruous cloth" (Is. LXIV, 6); such filth, such iniquity, what shall…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:327B…erceive it, according to the words: "Who can understand his failings?" (Ps. 18:13) Moreover, Isaiah says that all our righteousness is like a menstruous cloth (Isa. 64:6), because to be able to keep purity and…
8Isa 64:8
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1043…are our father and we are clay and you are our creator and we all are the work of your hands rightly therefore is anyone who disparages his father but also his mother punished with death…
Antiochus of St. Sabas fl. c. 614-620PG 89:1853…rag and we have withered as leaves because of our sins and now o lord thou art our father and we are clay all of us the works of thy hands do not be angry with…
Cyril of JerusalemPG 33:613B…e, and created thee? (Deut. xxxii, 6). And the prophet Isaiah: And now, O Lord, thou art our Father; but we are clay, and all we are the works of thy hands (Isa. lxiv, 8); for the prophetic grace most clearly…