I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Je marcherai devant toi, J'aplanirai les chemins montueux, Je romprai les portes d'airain, Et je briserai les verrous de fer.
KJV
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Barnabae epistula
Barnabae epistula
μου Σινᾶ; ἔσεσθε γὰρ ὡς πετεινοῦ νοσσοὶ ἀνιπτάμενοι νοσσιᾶς ἀφῃρημένοι. καὶ πάλιν λέγει ὁ προφήτης: Is. 45. 2. 3 Ἐγὼ πορεύσομαι ἔμπροσθέν σου καὶ ὄρη ὁμαλιῶ καὶ πύλας χαλκᾶς συντρίψω καὶ μοχλοὺς σιδηροῦς συγκλάσω, καὶ δώσω σοι θησαυροὺς σκοτεινούς, ἀποκρύφους, ἀοράτους, ἵνα γνῶσι…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
on (clx) that "of a sudden at our Lord and Saviour's bidding all 'the bars of iron were burst'" (Cf. Is. 45:2 ). Hence on behalf of the angels accompanying Christ it is written ( Ps. 23:7 , 9 ): "Lift up your gates, O ye princes." Now Christ descended thither in order to break th…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 101 (Migne)
as ferreas confringam, et dabo tibi thesauros occultos, ut scias, quoniam Dominus Deus tuus ego sum (Isai. XLV, 2, 3) . Et per Michaeam: Nunquia dabo primogenitum meum pro scelere meo; fructum ventris mei pro peccato animae meae (Mich. VI, 7) . Quod dixit primogenitum, secundum…
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