Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 37:29

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 347, footnote 4 (Image)

Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome

The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret. (HTML)

Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Cyprus. (HTML)

Letter of Theodoretus, as some suppose, to Domnus, Bishop of Antioch, written on the Death of Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2316 (In-Text, Margin)

... sadness. On seeing the Church freed from a plague of this kind I am glad and rejoice; but I am sorry and do mourn when I think that the wretch knew no rest from his crimes, but went on attempting greater and more grievous ones till he died. His idea was, so it is said, to throw the imperial city into confusion by attacking true doctrines a second time, and to charge your holiness with supporting them. But God saw and did not overlook it. “He put his hook into his nose and his bridle into his lips,”[Isaiah 37:29] and turned him to the earth whence he was taken. Be it then granted to your holiness’s prayers that he may obtain mercy and pity and that God’s boundless clemency may surpass his wickedness. I beg your holiness to drive away the agitations of my ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 353, footnote 7 (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 741 (In-Text, Margin)

... Zion, will despise him, and the daughter of Jerusalem will shake her head and say:— Whom hast thou reviled and blasphemed, and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice?  Thou hast lifted up thine eyes towards heaven against the Holy One of Israel, and by the hands of thy messengers thou hast reviled the Lord.  Now see that the hook has been forced into thy nostrils, and the bridle into thy lips, and thou hast turned back with thine heart crushed, who camest with thine heart uplifted.[Isaiah 37:29] And his slaying was by the hands of his loved ones; and in the house of his confidence, there was he over thrown, and fell before his god. And truly it was right, my beloved, that his body should thus become a sacrifice and offering before that god ...