Isaias 26:3
The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vetus error abiit : servabis pacem ; pacem, quia in te speravimus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀντιλαμβανόμενος ἀληθείας καὶ φυλάσσων εἰρήνην· ὅτι ἐπὶ σοὶ ἐλπίδι
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יֵ֣צֶר סָמ֔וּךְ תִּצֹּ֖ר שָׁל֣וֹם שָׁל֑וֹם כִּ֥י בְךָ֖ בָּטֽוּחַ
Haydock's commentary
Away: condemning the virtuous, as if they were fools. (Menochius)
Symmachus, "our work, or fiction, is taken away." Hebrew may have other meanings. (Haydock)
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 But lest I appear now to diverge to other subjects, understand what I say: the blood of that circumcision is obsolete, and we trust in the blood of salvation; there is now another covenant, and another law has gone forth from Zion.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. …