“(Verse 25.) Your most beautiful men will fall by the sword, and your strong men in battle. For the most beautiful men, they are interpreted as seventy, and your most beautiful son, whom you love, will fall by the sword. But if we understand about the state of the soul, which after virtues has sinned, let us accept the…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah
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25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
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23The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
— Isaiah 3:25 —
26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.