Isaiah 48:20
Douay-Rheims
Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
Augustine of Hippo
"Come forth out of Babylon." If we take the command of the prophet in a spiritual sense, it means that we should fly from the city of this world, from the fellowship of wicked angels and wicked [people], with the feet of that faith that works through love, and we should press onward unceasingly toward the living God.
Source details
A.D. 430 · on Isa 48:20 (City of God 18.18)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.