John Chrysostom, on Isa 1:9

“Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.”

“He here shows that even the few that were saved were not saved through their own resources. Even they would have perished and suffered like Sodom. That is, they would have been completely destroyed—for Sodom was destroyed root and branch, and not even the smallest seed remained. He means to say that they too would have been like those, except that God demonstrated his goodness to them and saved them by faith. This happened as well in their visible captivity in which most of them were taken captive and perished, in which only a few were saved.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.