159. Since, then,
He has a share in the kingdom, what hinders us from understanding that
it was the Holy Spirit by Whom Isaiah was sent? For on the
authority of Paul we cannot doubt, whose judgment the Evangelist Luke
so much approved in the Acts of the Apostles as to write as follows in
Paul’s words: “Well spake the Holy Spirit through
Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, saying: Go to this people and
say, Ye shall hear with the ear and shall not understand, and seeing ye
shall see and shall not perceive.” Acts xxviii. 25, 26.