Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 42:16

There are 4 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 260, footnote 9 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Justin Martyr (HTML)

Dialogue with Trypho (HTML)

Chapter CXXII.—The Jews understand this of the proselytes without reason. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2419 (In-Text, Margin)

... proselytes, but in fact they refer to us who have been illumined by Jesus. For Christ would have borne witness even to them; but now you are become twofold more the children of hell, as He said Himself. Therefore what was written by the prophets was spoken not of those persons, but of us, concerning whom the Scripture speaks: ‘I will lead the blind by a way which they knew not; and they shall walk in paths which they have not known. And I am witness, saith the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen.’[Isaiah 42:16] To whom, then, does Christ bear witness? Manifestly to those who have believed. But the proselytes not only do not believe, but twofold more than yourselves blaspheme His name, and wish to torture and put to death us who believe in Him; for in all ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 569, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

On Christian Doctrine (HTML)

Book III (HTML)

The Second Rule of Tichonius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1903 (In-Text, Margin)

... be at present both; and this because the good fish and the bad are for the time mixed up in the one net. For the tents of Kedar pertain to Ishmael, who “shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.” And in the same way, when God says of the good part of the Church, “I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things will I do unto them, and not forsake them;”[Isaiah 42:16] He immediately adds in regard to the other part, the bad that is mixed with the good, “They shall be turned back.” Now these words refer to a set of persons altogether different from the former; but as the two sets are for the present united in one ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 122, footnote 1 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great. (HTML)

Sermons. (HTML)

On the Fast of The Tenth Month, I. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 688 (In-Text, Margin)

... the mercy of God, Whom we should not have loved, unless He had first loved us, and dispelled the darkness of our ignorance by the light of His truth. And the Lord foretelling this by the holy Isaiah says, “I will bring the blind into a way that they knew not, and will make them walk in paths which they were ignorant of. I will turn darkness into light for them, and the crooked into the straight. These words will I do for them, and not forsake them[Isaiah 42:16].” And again he says, “I was found by them that sought Me not, and openly appeared to them that asked not for Me.” And the Apostle John teaches us how this has been fulfilled, when he says, “We know that the Son of God is ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 122, footnote 2 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great. (HTML)

Sermons. (HTML)

On the Fast of The Tenth Month, I. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 689 (In-Text, Margin)

... dispelled the darkness of our ignorance by the light of His truth. And the Lord foretelling this by the holy Isaiah says, “I will bring the blind into a way that they knew not, and will make them walk in paths which they were ignorant of. I will turn darkness into light for them, and the crooked into the straight. These words will I do for them, and not forsake them.” And again he says, “I was found by them that sought Me not, and openly appeared to them that asked not for Me[Isaiah 42:16].” And the Apostle John teaches us how this has been fulfilled, when he says, “We know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and may be in Him that is true, even His ...