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St. Jerome: Commentary on Isaiah: Including St. Jerome’s Translation of Origen’s Homilies 1–9 on Isaiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

Saint Jerome is best known as the translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible. In medieval times, Jerome was declared to be one of the four great Doctors of the Latin Church. The Council of Trent spoke of him as “the greatest doctor in the explanation of Holy Scripture.” Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah is his longest extant work and considered by many to be his magnum opus. Respected scholar Thomas P....

middle of the eight beatitudes: “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice” [Matt 5:6]. By his knowledge, that is, by his teaching, shall this just one, who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth [cf. Isa 53:9], and servant of the Father, who had received the form of a servant [cf. Phil 2:7], and had served the will of the Lord [cf. Matt 26:42; Heb 10:7], justified many believers from the whole world. And he bore their iniquities, which they were unable to bear, and by the weight
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