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Isaiah: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

cleared his land. For the Word, being firmly united to the flesh, and nailed to the cross, has reclaimed the savage earth. Out of Zion the loveliness of his beauty (Ps 50:2). Here Jerusalem is meant. It is within this city that the mountain gleams like gold metal on pure hearts. The apostles, on leaving the city, announced through the whole world Christ’s lovely beauty. As Isaiah declares: Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (2:3). Jerusalem
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