Holy Scripture

Isaiah 27:7

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 7.) Did he strike him according to the blow of the one striking himself: or as he killed his killers, so was he killed? This place is understood in two ways. Either against Jerusalem, so that he may say that she was not struck by God in the same way that she struck Christ and his Apostles: or against the multit…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

7Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? and as he slew, shall he be thus slain?

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In context

5I am burned up; they that dwell in her shall cry, Let us make peace with him, let us make peace,

6they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

— Isaiah 27:7 —

8Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; didst thou not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?

9Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

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