Isaias 41:23
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Annuntiate quæ ventura sunt in futurum, et sciemus quia dii estis vos ; bene quoque aut male, si potestis, facite, et loquamur et videamus simul.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀναγγείλατε ἡμῖν τὰ ἐπερχόμενα ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτου, καὶ γνωσόμεθα ὅτι θεοί ἐστε. εὖ ποιήσατε καὶ κακώσατε, καὶ θαυμασόμεθα, καὶ ὀψόμεθα ἅμα·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַגִּ֨ידוּ֙ הָאֹתִיּ֣וֹת לְאָח֔וֹר וְנֵ֣דְעָ֔ה כִּ֥י אֱלֹהִ֖ים אַתֶּ֑ם אַף תֵּיטִ֣יבוּ וְתָרֵ֔עוּ וְנִשְׁתָּ֖עָה ונרא יַחְדָּֽו
Haydock's commentary
Good. The prescience and power of God prove his divinity. Can idols produce any thing similar? (Calmet)
None can tell what will happen, unless God reveal it. (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 John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily XXXII
[3.] “Then miracles, then gifts of healings.” Seest thou how he again divides the healings from the power, which also he did before. For the power is more than the healing: since he that hath power both punishes and heals, but he that hath the gift of healings doeth cures only. And observe how excellent the order he made use of, when he set the prophecy before the miracles and the healings. For above when he said, “To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge,” he spake, not setting them in order, but indifferently. Here, on the other hand, he sets a first and a second rank. Wherefore then doth he set prophecy first? Because even in the old covenant the matter has this order. …