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The Great Cloud of Witnesses · The Long Middle

Isaac of Nineveh

?–700

Syriac / Oriental voice, d. ~700

The life

Isaac of Nineveh (d. ~700). Syriac / Oriental voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full profile pending.

In their own words

  • “If you believe that God makes provision for you, why be anxious and concerned about temporal affairs and the needs of your flesh? But if you do not believe that God makes provision for you, and for this reason you take pains to provide for …”

    ASCETICAL HOMILIES 5 · on the verse

  • “Some of his [humanity's] petitions God grants him promptly (I mean those without which no one can be saved), but some He withholds from him. And on certain occasions He restrains and dispels from him the scorching assault of the enemy, while on others, He …”

    ASCETICAL HOMILIES 8 · on the verse

  • “And David, who was a man after God's own heart, who because of his virtues was found worthy to generate from his seed the promise of the Fathers, and to have Christ shine forth from himself for the salvation of all the world, was he …”

    ASCETICAL HOMILIES 10 · on the verse