Holy Scripture

Isaiah 40:24

A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 21 seqq.) Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth? He sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He spreads out the heavens like nothing, and expands them as a tent to dwell in. He…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

24For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

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In context

22It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in:

23he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

— Isaiah 40:24 —

25Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

26Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

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