{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7415","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":41,"chapter_to":41,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":21,"verse_to":21},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 21) Make your case, says the Lord: bring forth if you have anything to say, says the king Jacob. LXX: Your judgment is near, says the Lord God: they have come and drawn near your counsels, says the king of Jacob. As we said above, Jacob and Israel are two, those who do not believe and those who believe in the Lord Savior: thus the nations are called, and they flow in rivers and springs in the once desert Church, and with a wonderful abundance of a variety of trees, all most abundantly fruitful, those who refused to believe in Christ from the nations are provoked to judgment, that they may answer why they did not want to see, and know and understand, because the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created all things. He says, 'Let your idols approach, which you think are the strongest. Or bring forward, if you have anything by chance within you; and reveal your plans, in what way, with what understanding, you have not wanted to accept the revealed truth. At the same time, there is a direct challenge to the idols themselves, which are insensible, and have neither the ability to hear nor to respond.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: To the expression \"your judgment draws near,\" Symmachus has given the following interpretation: \"Present your case, the Lord has said; bring up your solid supports, the king of Jacob has said.\" Become judges, he says, between myself and the idols; produce your solid props or, according to Theodotion, \"your firm supports,\" that is to say, the idols. Let them reveal the future; let them inform us of [the things] that have happened from the beginning. I, for my part, have not ceased to do the one and the other. Through my servant Moses, I have even taught what took place before the creation of humanity. As for the future, I have revealed it through [Moses] and through the other prophets.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 12:41.23</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"29b29abae89a13a25df2da637bd165351e1bf0d297a02884f426a93c38f286d5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7415,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"870cb23df1cc799378d12cc35bc4a7dfd6a2c2b3689dcd274170496be77130bf","translator":null,"work":null}