“[Where] do you get those fortresses of yours, "ingenerate" and "unoriginate," from—or where the term "immortal"? Show us the express words, or we cross them out as unscriptural, and you will be dead as a result of your own principles, since the words, the wall of defense you trusted in, will have been destroyed. Is it…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ON THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEOLOGICAL ORATION 5(31).23
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4Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
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2Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
— Isaiah 41:4 —
5The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.