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Isaiah 18:2Isa.18.2

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Toi qui envoies sur mer des messagers, Dans des navires de jonc voguant à la surface des eaux! Allez, messagers rapides, vers la nation forte et vigoureuse, Vers ce peuple redoutable depuis qu'il existe, Nation puissante et qui écrase tout, Et dont le pays est coupé par des fleuves.

KJV

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    or sin is the greatest sin of all." Therefore blasphemy is not the greatest sin. On the contrary, On Is. 18:2, "To a terrible people," etc. a gloss says: "In comparison with blasphemy, every sin is slight." I answer that, As stated above (A[1]) , blasphemy is opposed to the confe…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    egatos praedicatores Antichristi, ut in Isaia: «Misit in * mari legatos suos [Note: [Col. 0983] 35 Isa. XVIII, 2.] ,» id est in mundo praedicatores suos. [Col. 0984D] Legatio est reconciliatio peccatorum, ut in Paulo: «Pro Christo legatione fungimur [Note: [Col. 0983] 36 I…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    Papyrus est scientia saecularis, ut in Isaia: «Et in vasis papyri super aquas [Note: [Col. 1021] 15 Isa. XVIII, 2.] ,» quod Antichristus praedicatores suos ad seducendum populos verbis scientiae saecularis exornabit. * Papyrus, Synagoga, ut in Exodo: «Et videns fiscellam in *…

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