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What the Fathers say

Isaiah 7:17

Western Saints

Jerome

The Lord will bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come since the days of the separation of Ephraim from Judah, with the king of Assyria. This place should be read with hyperbaton. Finally, we too, following the Hebrew truth, have interpreted it as follows: O house of David, listen to what I say, that the land of Syria and Samaria may be abandoned by the face of the two kings whom you fear most greatly. …

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Thomas Aquinas

The Lord shall bring upon you. Here he sets out the threat against those who do not believe the sign. And first, he shows the gravity of the punishment; second, the order of punishment: and it shall come to pass in that day (Isa 7:18); third, the effect of the punishment: and it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow (Isa 7:21). …

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