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Isaiah 52:6

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

That is, he extended his hands to a people who did not believe and contradicted: not seeking an ambassador or messenger, but desiring to save his own people, the Lord himself: 'I, who spoke, behold I am here,' he said. And so, openly, I appear to those who do not seek me, and I am visible to those who do not ask me.

On Joseph the Patriarch, 12.67 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Therefore my people shall know my name in that day, of liberation, for I myself that spoke, promising, I am here, to fulfill my promise: afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men (Bar 3:38); God, who, at sundry times and in diverse manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all, in these days, has spoken to us by his Son (Heb 1:1–2) if this is explained mystically of the coming of Christ.

Commentary on Isaiah ↗