Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 28:25

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 288, footnote 9 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3418 (In-Text, Margin)

... men, in order that his word be not fruitless through falling on an unfruitful soil; and that the suitable season is when we have a calm within from the whirl of outward things; so as not like madmen to lose our breath; and that the extent to which we may go is that to which we have ourselves advanced, or to which we are advancing. Since then these things are so, and we have broken up for ourselves the fallows of Divinity, so as not to sow upon thorns, and have made plain the face of the ground,[Isaiah 28:25] being moulded and moulding others by Holy Scripture…let us now enter upon Theological questions, setting at the head thereof the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, of Whom we are to treat; that the Father may be well pleased, and the Son may help ...