Isaias 26:2
Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aperite portas, et ingrediatur gens justa, custodiens veritatem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνοίξατε πύλας, εἰσελθέτω λαὸς φυλάσσων δικαιοσύνην καὶ φυλάσσων ἀλήθειαν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- פִּתְח֖וּ שְׁעָרִ֑ים וְיָבֹ֥א גוֹי צַדִּ֖יק שֹׁמֵ֥ר אֱמֻנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Truth. The Jews who returned from Babylon, were more virtuous than their ancestors, as the prophets intimate; though they have Christians principally in view.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter XXIV. The Christians’
“Now, sirs,” I said, “it is possible for us to show how the eighth day possessed a certain mysterious import, which the seventh day did not possess, and which was promulgated by God through these rites. But lest I appear now to diverge to other subjects, understand what I say: the blood of that circumcision is obsolete, and we trust in the blood of salvation; there is now another covenant, and another law has gone forth from Zion. Jesus Christ circumcises all who will, as was declared above, with knives of stone; that they may be a righteous nation, a people keeping faith, holding to the truth, and maintaining peace. Come then with me, all who fear God, who wish to see the good of Jerusalem. Come, let us go to the light of the Lord; for He has liberated His people, the house of Jacob. …