Mark W Elliott - Isaiah 40-66

ANCIENT CHRISTIAN
COMMENTARY ON SCRIPTURE

OLD TESTAMENT
XI

ISAIAH 40-66

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2007 by the Institute of Classical Christian Studies (ICCS), Thomas C. Oden and Mark W. Elliott

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Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.

Selected excerpts from Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, 1947. Used by permission of The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C. Full bibliographic information on volumes of Fathers of the Church may be found in the Bibliography of Works in English Translation.

Selected excerpts from The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the Twenty-First Century, Part 3, translated by Edmund Hill, edited by John E. Rotelle, 1990-1997. Used by permission of the Augustinian Heritage Institute, Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Selected excerpts from John Chrysostom, Old Testament Homilies, translated by Robert Charles Hill, 2003. Used by permission of Holy Cross Orthodox Press, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Selected excerpts from The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, 1984. Used by permission of Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, Massachusetts.

Selected excerpts from Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, 3 vols., translated and annotated by P. G. Walsh, copyright 1990-1991 by P. G. Walsh; Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses, translation, introduction and notes by Abraham J. Malherbe and Everett Ferguson, preface by John Meyendorff, copyright 1978 by Paulist Press, Inc.; Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer and Selected Writings, translation and introduction by Rowan A. Greer, preface by Hans Urs von Balthasar, copyright 1979 by Paulist Press; Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, translation by Colm Luibheid, foreword, notes and translation collaboration by Paul Rorem, preface by Rene Roques, introductions by Jaroslav Pelikan, Jean Leclercq and Karlfried Froehlich, copyright 1987 by Paulist Press; Symeon the New Theologian, The Discourses, translation by C. J. de Catanzaro, introduction by George Maloney, SJ, preface by Basile Krivocheine, copyright 1980 by Paulist Press. Reprinted by permission of Paulist Press, Inc..

Selected excerpts from The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, OP, copyright 1989 by Boniface Ramsey, OP; Origen, Prayer; Exhortation to Martyrdom, translated and annotated by John J. OMeara, copyright 1954 by Rev. Johannes Quasten and Rev. Joseph C. Plumpe; John Cassian, The Institutes, translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, OP, copyright 2000 by Boniface Ramsey, OP; Theodoret of Cyrus: On Divine Providence, translated by Thomas Halton, copyright 1988 by Rev. Walter J. Burghardt and Thomas Comerford Lawler; St. John Chrysostom: Baptismal Instructions, translated and annotated by Paul W. Harkins, PhD, LLD, copyright 1963 by Johannes Quasten and Rev. Walter J. Burghardt, SJ; Newman Press, an imprint of Paulist Press, Inc., New York/Mahwah, N.J. Reprinted by permission of Paulist Press, Inc..

Selected excerpts from St. Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit, translated by David Anderson, 1980; St. Cyril of Alexandria, On the Unity of Christ, translated by John A. McGuckin, 2000; Melito of Sardis, On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans, translated by Alistair Stewart-Sykes, 2001. Used by permission of St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, 575 Scarsdale Road, Yonkers, N.Y. 10707.

Selected excerpts from Faith Gives Fullness to Reasoning: The Five Theological Orations of Gregory Nazianzen, introduction and commentary by F. W. Norris, 1990. Used by permission of Koninklijke Brill.

Cover photograph: Interior of the Apse, 6th century (photo)/San Vitale, Ravanna, Italy/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library.

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