Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 44:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 310, footnote 9 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3603 (In-Text, Margin)

III. Next is the fact of His being called Servant[Isaiah 44:2] and serving many well, and that it is a great thing for Him to be called the Child of God. For in truth He was in servitude to flesh and to birth and to the conditions of our life with a view to our liberation, and to that of all those whom He has saved, who were in bondage under sin. What greater destiny can befall man’s humility than that he should be intermingled with God, and by this intermingling should be deified, and that we should be so visited by the Dayspring ...