Isaias 44:8
Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled, from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nolite timere, neque conturbemini : ex tunc audire te feci, et annuntiavi ; vos estis testes mei. Numquid est Deus absque me, et formator quem ego non noverim ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ παρακαλύπτεσθε μηδὲ πλανᾶσθε· οὐκ ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς ἠνωτίσασθε, καὶ ἀπήγγειλα ὑμῖν; μάρτυρες ὑμεῖς ἐστε· εἰ ἔστιν θεὸς πλὴν ἐμοῦ; καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσαν τότε.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַֽל תִּפְחֲדוּ֙ וְאַל תִּרְה֔וּ הֲלֹ֥א מֵאָ֛ז הִשְׁמַעְתִּ֥יךָ וְהִגַּ֖דְתִּי וְאַתֶּ֣ם עֵדָ֑י הֲיֵ֤שׁ אֱל֨וֹהַּ֙ מִבַּלְעָדַ֔י וְאֵ֥ין צ֖וּר בַּל יָדָֽעְתִּי
Haydock's commentary
Witnesses. The history of the true religion is its best proof, chap. xliii. 9, 10.
Known. Ruled, consequently no other can be truly God. (Calmet)
Idolaters are foolish, trusting in those who cannot announce future events. (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
Tertullian On Idolatry, Idols Not to Be Made, Much Less Worshipped. Idols and Idol-Makers in the Same Category
God prohibits an idol as much to be made as to be worshipped . In so far as the making what may be worshipped is the prior act, so far is the prohibition to make (if the worship is unlawful) the prior prohibition. For this cause, the eradicating, namely, of the material of idolatry, the divine law proclaims, “Thou shalt make no idol;” and by conjoining, “Nor a similitude of the things which are in the heaven, and which are in the earth, and which are in the sea,” has interdicted the servants of God from acts of that kind all the universe over. …
Tertullian The Five Books Against Marcion, The Oath of God: Its Meaning. Moses, When Deprecating God's Wrath Against Israel, a Type of Christ
But God also swears. Well, is it, I wonder, by the God of Marcion? No, no, he says; a much vainer oath, by Himself! What was He to do, when He knew of no other God; especially when He was swearing to this very point, that besides himself there was absolutely no God? Is it then of swearing falsely that you convict Him, or of swearing a vain oath? But it is not possible for him to appear to have sworn falsely, when he was ignorant, as you say he was, that there was another God. For when he swore by that which he knew, he really committed no perjury. But it was not a vain oath for him to swear that there was no other God. It would indeed be a vain oath, if there had been no persons who believed that there were other Gods, like the worshippers of idols then, and the heretics of the present day. …