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The Prophet Isaiah, Michelangelo

Isaiah 26:18

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Isaiah 26:18 (WEB)

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

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John Damascene

Augustine of Hippo

Jerome

  • “And when you have gone to the prophetess, and have conceived in the womb, and have brought forth a son, say: “Lord, we have been with child by thy fear, we have been in pain, we have brought forth the spirit of thy salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth.”” — editor's note: Isa. xxvi. 18, Vulg.

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Ambrose of Milan

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “The one cries, “From fear of Thee, O Lord, have I conceived;” the other boasts that he is the parent of the largest family of any, bringing to the birth whole cities and nations; not the Corinthians and Galatians only…” — editor's note: Gregory here quotes from LXX. Cf. Is. xxvi. 18, and also below, ἐτέκομεν πνεῦμα σωτηρίας σου, ὃ ἐποιήσαμεν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “…to indulgence towards those who accept chastisement with fear, and who after a slight affliction conceive and are in pain with conversion, and bring forth the perfect spirit of salvation; but nevertheless he reserves the dregs, the last drop of His anger, that He may pour it out entire upon those who, instead of…” — editor's note: Ib. xxvi. 18.

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