Holy Scripture

Isaiah 42:6

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“Since, therefore, we were as though blind before, and when we sat as though enclosed by the prison house of foolishness in the darkness, not knowing God and his truth, we were enlightened by him who adopted us by his gracious treatment (his will in our favor). And when he had freed us as from evils and bonds and broug…”
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, 4th c. — DIVINE INSTITUTES 4:20

Source: Septuagint

Original

6I the Lord God have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will strengthen thee: and I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles;

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4He shall shine out, and shall not be discouraged, until he have set judgment on the earth: and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

5Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:

— Isaiah 42:6 —

7to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison house.

8I am the Lord God: that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praises to graven images.

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