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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Jerusalem
Would you know the power of repentance? Would you understand this strong weapon of salvation and the might of confession? By confession Hezekiah routed 185,000 of the enemy. That was important, but it was little compared to what shall be told. The same king's repentance won the repeal of the sentence God had passed on him. For when he was sick, Isaiah said to him, "Give charge concerning your house, for you shall die, and not live." What expectation was left? What hope of recovery was there when the prophet said, "For you shall die"? …
Western Saints
Jerome
For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: If you return and rest, you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. But you were unwilling, and you said, 'No! We will flee upon horses'; therefore you shall flee away, and, 'We will ride upon swift steeds'; therefore your pursuers shall be swift. One thousand at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee. …
Thomas Aquinas
676. For thus says the Lord. Here he denounces their contempt of divine counsel, and concerning this, he sets out three things. First, the counsel: if you return, below: be converted to me, and you shall be saved (Isa 45:22).
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