Micah
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Micah the prophet · the prophet
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Old Testament prophet cited on the Creator's mercy toward sinners.
"What god is like thee, taking away iniquities and passing over injustices to the remnant of thine inheritance?
" If this battle among parents was sung in the very words by the trumpet of the prophet, I fear lest Micah foretold it to the Christ of Marcion.
" At the same time he freed too the rest from doubt, manifesting that the name both of God and of "good" is one, and eternal life, and treasure in heaven, and himself — whose precepts by supplying he both preserved and increased — to be recognized in this place too according to Micah, who says, "If it has been announced to thee, man, what is good, or what does the Lord require of thee, but to do j …
Stromata
Old Testament prophet quoted twice for oracles concerning the word of the Lord and what God requires of Israel.
And still more plainly the prophet teaches the counsel of God and the gnostic advancement through these words:
These are they concerning whom Micah the prophet says:
And Isaiah, from the reign of Solomon, in whose time Menelaus was shown to have come to Phoenicia, in the three-hundredth year, is found still prophesying, and Micah with him, and Hosea, and Joel the son of Bathuel.