Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Isaiah 37:25
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 282, footnote 13 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults. (HTML)
Book XII. Of the Spirit of Pride. (HTML)
Chapter VIII. How God has destroyed the pride of the devil by the virtue of humility, and various passages in proof of this. (HTML)
... whomsoever I will, I give them;” the other, “Though He were rich yet He became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich.” The one says, “As eggs are gathered together which are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing or opened the mouth, or made the least noise;” the other, “I am become like a solitary pelican; I watched and became as a sparrow alone upon the roof.” The one says, “I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers shut up in banks;”[Isaiah 37:25] the other, “Cannot I ask my Father, and He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?” If we look at the reason of our original fall, and the foundations of our salvation, and consider by whom and in what way the latter were laid ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 353, footnote 3 (Image)
Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat
Selections from the Hymns and Homilies of Ephraim the Syrian and from the Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage. (HTML)
Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations. (HTML)
Of Wars. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 737 (In-Text, Margin)
4. Now Nebuchadnezzar said:— I will ascend to heaven and exalt my throne above the stars of God and sit in the lofty mountains that are in the borders of the North. Isaiah said concerning him:— Because thy heart has thus exalted thee, therefore thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, and all that look upon thee shall be astonished at thee. And Sennacherib also said thus:— I will go up to the summit of the mountains and to the shoulders of Lebanon.[Isaiah 37:24-25] I will dig and drink water and will dry up with my horses’ hoofs all the deep rivers. And because he thus exalted himself, Isaiah again said concerning him:— Why does the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it, or the saw exalt itself ...