Augustine of Hippo

Through love of this true life you ought, then, to consider yourself desolate in this world, no matter what happiness you enjoy. For, just as that is the true life in comparison with which this other, which is so much loved, is not to be called life, however pleasant and prolonged it may be, so that is their true comfort that God promised by the prophet saying, "I will give them true comfort, peace on peace." Without this comfort there is no more grief than consolation to be found in earthly comforts, whatever they may be.… Not by …

Letter 130 ↗

Jerome

I produced the fruit of lips, peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near, says the Lord, and I healed him. LXX: Peace to those who are far away and those who are near, says the Lord, and I will heal them. And what follows: I have created the fruit of the lips, this has meaning, I have fulfilled what I promised, saying: As I live, says the Lord, I prefer the repentance of the sinner to death (Ezek. 33:11). Or, I have granted all that I previously promised. What, then, is the promise of the Lord? …

Commentary on Isaiah ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Third, he confirms their deliverance from the predictions of the prophets: I created, as though restoring them from nothing; the fruit of the lips, of the prophets who foretold these things, peace to him that is far off, dispersed in captivity: and coming, he preached peace to them that were nigh: and to them that were afar off (Eph 2:17).

Commentary on Isaiah ↗