Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ainsi parle l'Eternel: Le ciel est mon trône, Et la terre mon marchepied. Quelle maison pourriez-vous me bâtir, Et quel lieu me donneriez-vous pour demeure?
KJV
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
Eucherius of Lyon
Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas
estifies about Himself through Isaiah, saying: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool" (Isaiah 66:1). And through Jeremiah: "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" (Jeremiah 23:24). The prophet confesses His immensity in the psalm, saying to the Lord: "If I ascend to heave…
Eucherius of Lyon
Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas
s are subject to Him. As He says through Isaiah: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool (Isaiah 66:1). Alternatively, the feet of the Son of God represent the incarnation, which is subject to divinity as the feet are to the head. Just as divinity is expressed through…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
it fittingly assigned), namely God, whose throne the Scriptures proclaim heaven to be ( Ps. 102:19, Is. 66:1 ). Wherefore we hold that those souls that have a perfect share of the Godhead are in heaven, and that those souls that are deprived of that share are assigned to a contra…
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