The interpretation timeline

Isa 34:7

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2 Jewish · 1 Catholic

Isa 34:7 · Douay-Rheims
“And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“wild oxen with them Kings with governors, wild oxen with the goats mentioned above. fat bulls (אַבִּירִים) fat and large bulls, as it is stated (Ps. 22:13): “Fat bulls (אַבִּירֵי) of Bashan surrounded me.””
1167
A.D.
Ibn Ezra Jewish
1089–1167
“With them, with the lambs and goats; by the unicorns and bullocks the kings of Edom are meant.”
1274
A.D.
Thomas Aquinas Catholic
1225–1274
“And as to the great, setting out their killing: and the unicorns, a fierce animal the size of a cat, with one horn, and thus it signifies the powerful and monarchs, shall go down, into death, above: their strong ones, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it (Isa 5:14); and the magnitude of the killing, their land shall be soaked with blood: the land was killed with blood (Ps 105[106]:38).”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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