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Gregory the Great, on Isa 9:8
Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604
Isa 9:8 · Douay-Rheims
“The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.”
On this verse:
“For it is written, "The Lord sent a Word into Jacob, and it hath fallen upon Israel." For Jacob means one that overthrows another, and Israel, one that sees God. And what is signified by Jacob but the Jewish people, and by Israel but the Gentile world? For in that very One Whom Jacob aimed to overthrow by the death of the flesh, the Gentile world, by the eyes of faith, beheld God. And thus the Word, that was sent to Jacob, lighted upon Israel; for Him whom the Jewish people rejected when He came to them, the Gentile world at once owned and found.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.