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What the Fathers say

Isaiah 28:14

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Jerusalem

When you renounce Satan, trampling underfoot every covenant with him, then you annul that ancient "league with hell," and God's paradise opens before you, that Eden, planted in the east, from which for his transgression our first father was banished.

Catechetical Lecture 1:9 ↗

Western Saints

Jerome

. Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, you mockers who rule over my people in Jerusalem. For you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we have made a pact. When the overwhelming whip passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made falsehood our refuge, and we have hidden behind deceit. …

Commentary on Isaiah ↗

Thomas Aquinas

646. Wherefore. Here he excludes remedy. And first, he sets out two remedies; second, he excludes both from them: and I will set (Isa 28:17). Concerning the first, he sets out two remedies.

Commentary on Isaiah ↗