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