{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020179.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020179.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020179.htm","text":"If we satisfied ourselves with advancing such considerations as these, our doctrines might by some be looked upon as human. But, since the voices of the prophets confirm our arguments\u2014for I think that you also, with your great zeal for knowledge, and your great attainments in learning, cannot be ignorant of the writings either of Moses or of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the other prophets, who, lifted in ecstasy above the natural operations of their minds by the impulses of the Divine Spirit, uttered the things with which they were inspired, the Spirit making use of them as a flute-player 722 breathes into a flute;\u2014what, then, do these men say? \u201cThe Lord is our God; no other can be compared with Him.\u201d 723 And again: \u201cI am God, the first and the last, and besides Me there is no God.\u201d 724 In like manner: \u201cBefore Me there was no other God, and after Me there shall be none; I am God, and there is none besides Me.\u201d 725 And as to His greatness: \u201cHeaven is My throne, and the earth is the footstool of My feet: what house will ye build for Me, or what is the place of My rest?\u201d 726 But I leave it to you, when you meet with the books themselves, to examine carefully the prophecies contained in them, that you may on fitting grounds defend us from the abuse cast upon us.\n[Kaye, 179. An important comment; comp. cap. vii., supra.]\n133:723\nIsa. xli. 4; Exod. 20:2, 3 (as to sense).\n133:724 133:725\nIsa. 43:10, 11.\n133:726","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: ATHENAGORAS: Chapter IX.\u2014The Testimony of the Prophets.","type":"page"}