Fathers

Loading…

What the Fathers say

Isaiah 41:26

Western Saints

Jerome

Who announced it from the beginning, so that we may say: You are just. There is neither announcer, nor predictor, nor listener to your words. LXX: For who can declare to you the things that are from the beginning, that we may know them that shall be in the future? And we shall say that they are true: there is none that announces, nor that hears your words. …

Commentary on Isaiah ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Second, from this, he sets out an argument under the form of a question: that he who can foretell this is justly called God; and he who cannot, is not: who has declared, below: assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear (Isa 48:14). Third, he excludes proof of divinity from the idols: there is none, any of you gods, that shows nor, any of your worshippers, that hears, etc., they have eyes and see not; they have ears and hear not (Ps 113:13–15[115:5–6]).

Commentary on Isaiah ↗