Isaias 38:22
And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixit Ezechias : Quod erit signum quia ascendam in domum Domini ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἑζεκίας Τοῦτο σημεῖον πρὸς Ἑζεκίαν ὅτι ἀναβήσομαι εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ מָ֣ה א֑וֹת כִּ֥י אֶעֱלֶ֖ה בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Lord. The answer is given, (4 Kings xx. 9.) which seems to evince that this is only an extract. (Calmet)
The prophet prescribed the medicine, and the king asked for a sign before he sung the canticle. (Worthington)
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 Augustine City of God, Of Those Things Which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the Priest, Signifying that the Priesthood Which Had Been Appointed According to Aaron Was to Be Taken Away
But what is added, “And it shall come to pass that he who is left in thine house shall come to worship him,” is not said properly of the house of this Eli, but of that Aaron, the men of which remained even to the advent of Jesus Christ, of which race there are not wanting men even to this present. For of that house of Eli it had already been said above, “And every one of thine house that is left shall fall by the sword of men.” How, therefore, could it be truly said here, “And it shall come to pass that every one that is left shall come to worship him,” if that is true, that no one shall escape the avenging sword, unless he would have it understood of those who belong to the race of that whole priesthood after the order of Aaron? Therefore, if it is of these the predestinated remnant, about whom another prophet has said, “The remnant shall be saved;” whence the apostle also says, “Even s …