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Desert Fathers

5th century · AD 500 · Eastern & Byzantine · 276 passages

Background on Desert Fathers

In his own words on Isaiah

  • Isaiah 6:5

    Mathois said, 'The nearer a man comes to God, the more he sees himself to be a sinner. Isaiah the prophet saw the Lord and knew himself to be wretched and unclean (Is. 6:5).'

    The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.