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Isaiah 10:27

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

It is said through Moses: "They sucked honey from the rock, and oil from the solid rock." For nothing of this kind is read according to history, if the whole sequence of the Old Testament is reviewed. Nowhere did that people suck honey from the rock, nowhere oil. But because according to Paul's words: "The rock was Christ," they sucked honey from the rock who saw the deeds and miracles of our same Redeemer. …

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 26 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Third, the liberation that follows is set out, and first, the liberation: his burden shall be taken away: and it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst his bands (Jer 30:8); second, the reason for the liberation: at the presence of the oil, of divine mercy, above: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil (Isa 1:6).

Commentary on Isaiah ↗