Isaiah 37 in the early church
[Vulgate: Isaias]
21 passages quote, allude to, or echo Isaiah 37, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.
Verses: 3 · 6 · 7 · 10 · 14 · 17 · 19 · 20 · 22 · 25 · 27 · 31 · 35 · 36
Isaiah 37:3
to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:3 | Homilies on Exodus 10.3 · Origen | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
Isaiah 37:6
who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:6–7 | On Saint Athanasius 1.40 · Lucifer of Cagliari | quotation, high confidence | ca. 356–361 |
Isaiah 37:7
Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:7 | Commentary on Daniel 3.4 · Hippolytus of Rome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 202-204 |
Isaiah 37:10
“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:10 | On Saint Athanasius 1.40 · Lucifer of Cagliari | quotation, high confidence | ca. 356–361 |
Isaiah 37:14
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:14 | Poem 26, lines 162–194 · Paulinus of Nola | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 393–431 |
Isaiah 37:17
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:17 | Oration 5.23 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 362–383 |
Isaiah 37:19
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:19 | Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 145–146 · Anonymous | allusion, medium confidence | 5th century (disputed) |
Isaiah 37:20
And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:20 | On the Trinity 30 · Novatian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240–250 |
Isaiah 37:22
this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:22 | Altercatio, chapter 2, speech 23 · Evagrius of Gaul | quotation, high confidence | ca. 400 |
| Isa 37:22 | Against Jovinianus 1.32 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | 393 |
Isaiah 37:25
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:25 | The Institutes 12.8 · John Cassian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 419–426 |
Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:27 | Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 145–146 · Anonymous | allusion, low confidence | 5th century (disputed) |
Isaiah 37:31
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:31–32 | Demonstration of the Gospel 2.3.137 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
| Isa 37:31 | Demonstration of the Gospel 2.3.138 · Eusebius of Caesarea | allusion, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
Isaiah 37:35
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:35 | Homilies on Matthew 2.3 · John Chrysostom | quotation, high confidence | ca. 390 |
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isa 37:36 | Dialogue with Trypho 83.1 · Justin Martyr | allusion, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Isa 37:36 | On the Destruction of Jerusalem 5.16 · Anonymous | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 370 |
| Isa 37:36 | Letter 60.17 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Isa 37:36 | Altercatio, chapter 2, speech 23 · Evagrius of Gaul | allusion, high confidence | ca. 400 |
| Isa 37:36 | Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.31.1 · Ambrose | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 387-397 |
| Isa 37:36 | Poem 26, lines 162–194 · Paulinus of Nola | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 393–431 |