Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Isaiah 29:8
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 430, footnote 5 (Image)
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The Diverse Forms of Spiritual Sickness. (HTML)
... and rail at dignities.” And these, because they are asleep, live in an atmosphere of vain and dream-like fancies concerning realities, not admitting the things which are actually true, but deceived by what appears in their vain imaginations, in regard to whom it is said in Isaiah, “Like as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but when he has risen up is still thirsty, and his soul has cherished a vain hope, so shall be the wealth of all the nations as many as have warred in Jerusalem.”[Isaiah 29:8] If, then, we have seemed to make a digression in recounting the difference between the weak and the sickly and those that sleep, because of that which the Apostle said in the letter to the Corinthians which we have expounded, we have made the ...