Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 48:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 369, footnote 2 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1141 (In-Text, Margin)

Perhaps our readers expect us to say something about this so great delusion wrought by the demons; and what shall we say but that men must fly out of the midst of Babylon?[Isaiah 48:20] For this prophetic precept is to be understood spiritually in this sense, that by going forward in the living God, by the steps of faith, which worketh by love, we must flee out of the city of this world, which is altogether a society of ungodly angels and men. Yea, the greater we see the power of the demons to be in these depths, so much the more tenaciously must we cleave to the Mediator through whom we ...