Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Isaiah 44:16
There are 3 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 165, footnote 5 (Image)
Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus
Justin Martyr (HTML)
The First Apology (HTML)
Chapter IX.—Folly of idol worship. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1781 (In-Text, Margin)
And neither do we honour with many sacrifices and garlands of flowers such deities as men have formed and set in shrines and called gods; since we see that these are soulless and dead, and have not the form of God (for we do not consider that God has such a form as some say that they imitate to His honour), but have the names and forms of those wicked demons which have appeared. For why need we tell you who already know, into what forms the craftsmen,[Isaiah 44:9-20] carving and cutting, casting and hammering, fashion the materials? And often out of vessels of dishonour, by merely changing the form, and making an image of the requisite shape, they make what they call a god; which we consider not only senseless, but to be even ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 512, footnote 11 (Image)
Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
Arnobius. (HTML)
The Seven Books of Arnobius Against the Heathen. (Adversus Gentes.) (HTML)
Book VI. (HTML)
Chapter XIV. (HTML)
14. We would here, as if all nations on the earth were present, make one speech, and pour into the ears of them all, words which should be heard in common:[Isaiah 44:9-20] Why, pray, is this, O men! that of your own accord you cheat and deceive yourselves by voluntary blindness? Dispel the darkness now, and, returning to the light of the mind, look more closely and see what that is which is going on, if only you retain your right, and are not beyond the reach of the reason and prudence given to you. Those images which fill you with terror, and which you adore prostrate upon the ground ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 319, footnote 19 (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)
To John the Œconomus. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2093 (In-Text, Margin)
... The dæmons who have deceived mankind have given this title to idols; whence Jeremiah exclaims, “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens;” and again “They made to themselves gods of silver and gods of gold;” and the prophet Isaiah when he had mocked the making of the idols, and said “He burneth part thereof in the fire with part thereof he eateth flesh he warmeth himself and saith Aha I am warm I have seen the fire,”[Isaiah 44:16] went on “and the residue thereof he maketh a god and falleth down unto it and saith ‘Deliver me for thou art my god’” and so the prophet laments over them and says “Know that their heart is ashes.” And the Psalmist David has taught us to sing “For ...