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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....

he will speak those words recorded in the Gospel:29 “We are useless slaves; for we have done what we were obligated to do” [Luke 17:10]. 3. (1:2a) Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. Above in the heading it was shown who the prophet is, whose son he is, what he saw and when against Judah and Jerusalem, or concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Now he summons heaven and earth to hear. By heaven he is signifying the higher and angelic powers; by earth the race of mortals.30 He
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