Isaiah: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators (Biblia.com)

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In his extremely thorough work on Isaiah, Robert Wilken brings to bear his considerable knowledge of early Christianity. Drawing on writings of the church fathers–Eusebius of Caesarea, Ambrose, Jerome, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret of Cyrus, Bernard of Clairvaux, and nearly sixty others–all of them masterfully translated, this work allows the complex words of Isaiah to come alive. Wilken’s...

might liken it to a glittering and magnificent city, having not one image of the king but many, and publicly displayed in every corner of the city.… Its purpose is not to provide us an account of the lives of the saints of old. Far from that. Its purpose is to give us knowledge of the mystery [of Christ] through things that make the word about him clear and true.”4 To drive home the point the church fathers also cited the passage in Ephesians where St. Paul interprets the famous words about the institution

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