{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7629","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":51,"chapter_to":51,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"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>Ishodad of Merv</b>: \"These two things have befallen you,\" that is, they have befallen you because of your sins. You have abandoned God, and you have followed the idols; that is why two punishments have come over you, \"famine and sword,\" because \"devastation\" comes from the sword and \"destruction\" from famine.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 51:19</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: By \"two,\" he means the bravery of the adversaries and the desertion of the auxiliaries: while the former attack with courage, the others flee in a cowardly fashion. \"Downfall and destruction.\" He has again presented two calamities: that of falling and that of being crushed. For sometimes a person falls without being struck. \"Famine and sword.\" Again a double chastisement: if the first make a siege from the city of the outside, even harder to endure than the enemies was the famine that was within, annihilating them.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 16:51.19</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6d074997bcf5ccfd108271b8c0d61c93d79788bf2ef34476602916597d403f7b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7629,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fbb315e082b3dfba7ee1851459267e4d46732535ed0f0d688211c5ed46cfe5a2","translator":null,"work":null}