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Commentary on Isaiah 48:12, 13 & 16 Isaiah 48:12 Hearken to me, O Jacob,    and Israel, whom I called!I am He, I am the first,    and I am the last. Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Aphrahat the Persian Sage (AD 270-345): No one should suppose that there is another God, either before or afterwards. He said, “From age to age,” just as Isaiah said, “I am the first and I am the last.” And after God had brought forth Adam from within his thought, he fashioned him, and breathed into him of his Spirit and gave him the knowledge of discernment so that he might discern good from evil and might know that God made him. - "Demonstrations 17.7" Isaiah 48:13 My hand laid the foundation of the earth,    and my right hand spread out the heavens;when I call to them,    they stand forth together. Cosmic inflation after the Big Bang John 1:3  All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. Colossians 1:15-17 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; 16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  Cyril of Alexandria Now the hand and the right arm is what God the Father calls his Son. And we often find him so called throughout Scripture. The divine Moses said, “Your right hand has been glorified in might, your right hand has shattered the enemies,” and David the blessed said, “May your hand be strengthened, may your right arm be lifted up.” - "Commentary on Isaiah 4.3.48.12–13" Tertullian of Carthage He is the Lord’s right hand, indeed his two hands, by which he worked and constructed the universe. - "Against Hermogenes 45" Isaiah 48:16 Draw near to me, hear this:    from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,    from the time it came to be I have been there.”And now the Lord God has sent me and his Spirit. Luke 1:35 And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you,and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;therefore the child to be born will be called holy,the Son of God. Augustine of Hippo Now it is Jesus Christ who is speaking here as the “Lord God”; yet this would not have been obvious if he had not added the final words, “And now the Lord God has sent me and his Spirit.” These words were spoken by Christ in his “form” as a “servant.” He used a verb in the past tense to indicate a future event. - "City of God 20.30" Furthermore, he could not be sent by the Father without the Holy Spirit. On principle, when the Father sent him, that is made him of woman, he cannot be supposed to have done it without the Spirit.… There is even a prophecy of Isaiah in which Christ himself is understood as saying about his future coming, “And now the Lord and his Spirit has sent me.” - "On the Trinity 2.2.8" Jerome When all things were made by the Father, he [the Son] was there with him, in whom the Son rejoiced when he said, I am he who always was with the Father and in the Father and never was without the Father, and who now speaks, and due to the weakness of the flesh I assumed, I say that “the Lord has sent me and his Spirit.” In this short verse we are shown the mystery of the Trinity. - "Commentary on Isaiah 13.16"