Jerome, on Isa 65:7

“Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.”

“But Abraham was saved by the integrity of faith from the fire of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah agrees with this, speaking in the person of the Lord: "Like a hot spring in the desert, I found Israel with a deadly sword." For … he said, All the world lay wounded by the deadly swords of idolatry. I found Israel in Abraham to have the heat of faith, like a medic after a war who senses that some among the bodies of the dead have a vital pulse and provides care for the wounded to restore their health. But what was written, ōs thermon, that is, "like a hot spring," the Latin translator rendered "like a wolf," deceived as he was by ambiguous words that cause errors also among the Greeks. Nevertheless, it should be noted that in Hebrew thoda, which means "grace," is written in place of "heat." Indeed, Israel shall be saved by the grace of God, not by its own works.”

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