Isaiah 40:17 Douay-Rheims

All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Philoxenus of Mabbug

c. A.D. 450–523 Patristic

And the Prophet said, "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers;" and again, "He looketh on the earth and it trembleth; He rebuketh the mountains, and they smoke." And again the prophet Isaiah saith, "All the nations are accounted as nothing by Him." Now these things the Spirit of God spake concerning the power of God, that those things which were not He called to come into existence, and that what did exist He called and changed into nothing. To this power also He compareth faith.

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A.D. 523 · on Isa 40:17 (13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 2 -- On Faith)

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