Isaiah 18:2 (WEB)
that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“For Isaiah tells us of letters written on papyrus and cast upon the waters—missives soon carried away by time and tide.” — editor's note: Isa. xviii. 2, LXX.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…the water; for nimble messengers will go) to a nation anxious and expectant, and a people strange and bitter against them; a nation hopeless and trodden down.”” — editor's note: Isa. xviii. 1, 2.
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