Justin Martyr,
Dialogue with Trypho, § 120 charges the Jews with having
cut out a passage referring to the death of Isaiah. Theophylact
commenting on Heb. xi. 37, says: “They were sawn asunder,
as Isaiah by Manasses: and they say that he was sawn with a
wooden saw, that his punishment might be the more painful to him from
being prolonged.” Jerome on Is. i. 10, says that he was
slain because of his calling the Jews “princes of Sodom and
people of Gomorra,” and because he said, “I saw the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up.”