Isaiah's Vision and Scriptural Witnesses
“Holy Lord of Sabaoth, the heaven is full of his glory and all the earth.” (Isa 6:3). He also speaks of other things: “He said to me: say to the people: by hearing you shall hear and you shall not understand, and seeing you shall see and you shall not perceive. For the heart of this people has become thick, and with their ears they have heard heavily and their eyes they have blinded, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn and I might heal them.” (Isa 6:9-10). And among others he brings forward: “and the king Lord Sabaoth I saw with my eyes. And he was sent to one of the seraphim” (Isa 6:1-2) and the following.
Having seen thus the Lord Sabaoth and king, Isaiah knew that this one is God the Father (Isa 6:5). And Paul in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, finding the Holy Spirit to be, declared thus, interjecting: “The Holy Spirit spoke well to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet, saying: Go to this people and say to him: by hearing you shall hear and you shall not understand” (Acts 28:25) and the following, as it is written. And John in the Gospel distinguished the Son of God to be. For he said: “Because he has made so many signs, they were not able to believe, since Isaiah said: He has blinded their eyes and made heavy their heart, so that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn and I might heal them” (John 2:23). And immediately he brings forward: “And Isaiah said these things when he seen his glory,” (Isa 6:1) that is, of the Son of God. These things indeed are somewhat about these matters.
But hear also other things of the same power, of David in Psalm 95, singing from the person of God the Father with the lyre thus: “Your fathers tested me and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was vexed with this generation and said: They always err in heart. But they did not know my roads. As I swore in my anger: they shall not enter into my rest” (Ps 95:7-11). Paul, writing to the Hebrews from the same psalm by the Holy Spirit, clarifies this way: “As it was said,” he says, “the Holy Spirit: Today if you hear my voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion on the day of temptation, in which your fathers tested me and saw my works for forty years” (Heb 3:7-8). And Stephen, in the Acts, spoke to the Jews from the same threatening scripture: “Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers and you do” (Acts 7:51). Similarly, Moses says that the Hebrews were led out of Egypt in Deuteronomy: “For the Lord,” he says, “was alone with them, and” (Deut 32:6).
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ἅγιος κύριος Σαβαώθ, πλήρης ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ». 19.6 Καὶ μεθ' ἕτερά φησιν· «εἶπέν μοι· εἰπὲ τῷ λαῷ· ἀκοῇ ἀκούσετε καὶ οὐ μὴ συνῆτε, καὶ βλέποντες βλέψετε καὶ οὐ μὴ ἴδητε. ἐπαχύνθη γὰρ ἡ καρδία τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου, καὶ τοῖς ὠσὶν αὐτῶν βαρέως ἤκουσαν καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν ἐκάμμυσαν, μήποτε ἴδωσιν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς καὶ τοῖς ὠσὶν ἀκούσωσιν καὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ συνῶσιν καὶ ἐπιστρέψωσιν καὶ ἰάσομαι αὐτούς». 19.7 καὶ μεταξὺ ἄλλων ἐπιφέρει· «καὶ τὸν βασιλέα κύριον Σαβαὼθ εἶδον τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς μου. καὶ ἀπεστάλη πρὸς μὲ ἓν τῶν σεραφίμ» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. 19.8 Τὸν ὀφθέντα τοίνυν κύριον Σαβαὼθ καὶ βασιλέα Ἠσαΐας μὲν οὗτος αὐτὸν τὸν θεὸν πατέρα εἶναι οἶδεν. 19.9 Παῦλος δὲ ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ τῶν ἀποστολικῶν πράξεων τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα τυγχάνειν ὂν ἀπεφήνατο τοιῶσδε ἀνειπών· «καλῶς τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἐλάλησεν πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ὑμῶν διὰ Ἠσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος· πορεύθητι πρὸς τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτῷ· ἀκοῇ ἀκούσετε καὶ οὐ μὴ συνῆτε» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, ὡς πρόκειται. 19.10 Ἰωάννης δὲ ἐν εὐαγγελίῳ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ εἶναι διωρίσατο. ἔφη γάρ· «τοσαῦτα σημεῖα πεποιηκότος τοῦ Ἰησοῦ οὐκ ἐδύναντο πιστεύειν, ὅτι εἶπεν Ἠσαΐας· τετύφλωκεν αὐτῶν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς καὶ ἐπήρωσεν αὐτῶν τὴν καρδίαν, ἵνα μὴ ἴδωσιν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς καὶ νοήσωσιν τῇ καρδίᾳ καὶ ἐπι στρέψωσιν καὶ ἰάσομαι αὐτούς». καὶ εὐθὺς ἐπάγει· «ταῦτα δὲ εἶπεν Ἠσαΐας, ὅτε εἶδεν τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ», τουτέστιν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ. ταῦτα μὲν δὴ περὶ τούτων ὧδέ πῃ. 19.11 Ἄκουε δὲ καὶ ἕτερα τῆς αὐτῆς δυνάμεως, τοῦ ∆αυῒδ ἐν ψαλμῷ ϟδʹ ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ θεοῦ πατρὸς ᾄσαντος τῇ λύρᾳ τοιῶσδε· «ἐπείρασάν με οἱ 22 πατέρες ὑμῶν καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη. διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ καὶ εἶπον· ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ. αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου. ὣς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου· εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου». 19.12 Παῦλος Ἑβραίοις γράφων ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ψαλμοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος διορίζεται τόνδε τὸν τρόπον· «καθὼς εἶπεν», φησίν, «τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς μου ἀκούσητε, μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ πειρασμοῦ, οὗ ἐπείρασάν με οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη». 19.13 καὶ Στέφανος εἰς τὰς ἀποστολικὰς πράξεις τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς ἐντρέπων γραφῆς ἔφη· «σκληροτράχηλοι καὶ ἀπερίτμητοι τῇ καρδίᾳ καὶ τοῖς ὠσίν, ὑμεῖς ἀεὶ τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ ἀντιπίπτετε, ὡς οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν καὶ ὑμεῖς». 19.14 Ὁμοίως δὲ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ὡδηγηκέναι τοὺς Ἑβραίους ὁ μὲν Μωϋσῆς κύριον λέγει. ἐν τῷ δευτερονομίῳ· «κύριος γάρ», φησίν, «μόνος ἦγεν αὐτούς, καὶ
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Didymus the Blind defends the full divinity of Father, Son, and Spirit against those who rank them.
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