Isaiah, cited

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 18 authority · 1 neutral 19 citations · 53 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 5 passages anchored here · book 3 6 passages anchored here · book 4 28 passages anchored here · book 5 12 passages anchored here

   Isaiah is named directly as the source of the quoted question about the Lord's mind and counsel.

   Isaiah, even then an apostle, foreseeing heretical hearts, says:

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 13 authority · 2 neutral · 1 extended 16 citations · 31 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 15 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 4 4 passages anchored here · book 5 3 passages anchored here · book 6 4 passages anchored here · book 7 2 passages anchored here

   The saying is explicitly attributed to 'Isaiah'.

   "You who thirst, go to the water," says Isaiah;

3. Letters Basil of Caesarea 5 authority 5 citations

   letter 8 · letter 46 · letter 210 · letter 220 · letter 223

   Quoted to explain Christ's lack of outward glory.

   and, "We saw him, and he had no form nor beauty, but his form was lacking beyond all men.

4. Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 5 authority 5 citations · 7 passages

   chapter 9 2 passages anchored here · chapter 11 · chapter 26 · chapter 28 · chapter 29 · chapter 35

   The quoted promise of forgiveness matches the prophetic scripture invoked as God's word.

   Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow, and so on.

5. De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 4 authority 4 citations · 9 passages

   de carnis resurrectione 9 passages anchored here

   Isaiah is named and quoted twice, used to balance disparaging and honoring statements about the flesh.

   Therefore, killing through death, He will make alive through resurrection.

6. Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 3 authority 3 citations

   protrepticus 3 passages anchored here

   The prophet Isaiah is explicitly named and quoted repeatedly as scriptural authority on God's incomparable power and the vanity of idols.

   "Who has measured," he says, "the heaven with a span and all the earth with the hollow of his hand?

7. Adversus Judaeos Tertullian 3 authority 3 citations · 9 passages

   adversus judaeos 9 passages anchored here

   Isaiah is named and quoted as prophetic authority across four paragraphs, extending and confirming the treatise's arguments.

   Therefore, just as the carnal sacrifices are understood to be rejected, of which Isaiah too speaks, saying:

8. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 3 authority 3 citations · 7 passages

   adversus praxean 7 passages anchored here

   Isaiah is repeatedly cited as prophetic authority for the Father addressing the Son and vice versa.

   For, being ignorant that from the beginning the whole order of the divine disposition ran its course through the Son, they believe the Father himself to have been seen and met with and to have wrought, and to have suffered thirst and hunger (against the prophet who says, "The eternal God shall neither thirst nor hunger at all" — how much less shall he die or be buried?

9. Adversus Hermogenem Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

   adversus hermogenem 5 passages anchored here

   Prophetic oracle wording is repeatedly invoked to support God's sole and unaided authorship.

   Or by what means, he says, even though Matter be such, is there preserved to God both his authority and his substance, by which he is the sole and first author, and is reckoned Lord of all?

10. De Pudicitia Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

    de pudicitia 3 passages anchored here

    Directly quoted prophetic text.

    "For the old things have passed away," according to Isaiah, "and the renewing is now renewed," according to Jeremiah;

11. Scorpiace Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

    scorpiace 3 passages anchored here

    Named explicitly both times: 'according to Isaiah' and 'As Isaiah says.'

    For Isaiah too promises out of the red and scarlet a snowy and woolen whiteness.

12. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 refuted 1 citation

    ch. 9

    The passage directly engages and reinterprets the prophecy to prevent it from disproving the justice of war.

    In the first place, the prophecy of Isaiah is generally alleged, who says the time shall come, “when nations shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and turn their spears into pruning hooks.

13. De Carne Christi Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 5 passages

    de carne christi 5 passages anchored here

    Isaiah is cited repeatedly and explicitly as scriptural proof-text throughout the passage.

    He had to be born in a new way, the dedicator of a new birth, of which the Lord, by Isaiah, was foretold as about to give a sign.

14. De Corona Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    de corona

    The passage alludes to the prophetic 'rod of Jesse' image as authoritative messianic figure for the true, unfading flower.

    You have the flower from the rod of Jesse, upon which the whole grace of the divine Spirit rested—the flower incorrupt, unfading, everlasting;

15. De Cultu Feminarum Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

    de cultu feminarum

    The passage neutrally reports what Isaiah does and does not condemn before qualifying the implication

    granting that Isaiah inveighs against no garment of purple, beats down no curled coiffure, reprobates no little crescents—yet let us not, like the heathen, so kindle these things upon ourselves, reckoning God only the Instituter, and not also the Despiser of His own institutions.

16. De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    de fuga in persecutione

    Directly quotes prophetic oracles attributing to God the making of peace and evil, and smiting and healing.

    Since, then, these examples too come about rather in persecutions—seeing that we are then the more proved or reprobated, and are then the more humbled or corrected—it must be permitted or commanded by Him by whom, in part, these things are done catholically, namely, by Him who says, "I am He that makes peace and creates evils"—that is, war;

17. De idolatria Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    de idolatria

    Isaiah is directly quoted as scriptural authority in the chain of citations against idol-making.

    Enoch had gone before, foretelling that the demons and the spirits of the deserting angels would turn all the elements, all the census of the world—whatever is contained in heaven, in sea, in earth—into idolatry, so that they should be consecrated in the place of God against God.

18. De ieiunio adversus psychicos Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    ch. 1

    Isaiah is named explicitly and quoted directly on the nature of the chosen fast.

    So Isaiah too did not deny that God had chosen a fast, but enumerated what kind He had not chosen.

19. De Oratione Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

    de oratione 2 passages anchored here

    Isaiah is named directly and his prophetic rejection of empty sacrifice is quoted in substance to support the theme of spiritual sacrifice.

    I am full of the whole burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and of goats I do not wish.