The interpretation timeline

Isa 66:11

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Patristic · 2 Jewish · 1 Catholic

Isa 66:11 · Douay-Rheims
“That you may suck, and be filled with the breasts of her consolations: that you may milk out, and flow with delights, from the abundance of her glory.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
444
A.D.
Cyril of Alexandria Patristic
A.D. 376–444
“This struggle is the correction of noble good deeds in them. For their sweat is profitable, and they have youth-like endurance in order to gain not an earthly possession but rather so that they become filled with graces from God and are satisfied in every desire. To these he makes this promise, "Like infants at the breast you will be filled by the breasts of consolation." Since Isaiah has previously compared the figure of a woman with the new Zion, he remains in this way of speaking and compares this comfort with that of the breasts and milk of the Holy Spirit. For in the Song of Songs it says, "Your breasts are better than wine."”
Source
661 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“from the breast Heb. מִשֹּׁד, an expression of breasts (שָׁדַיִם). you drink deeply Heb. תָּמֹצּוּ, sucer in French, to suck. from her approaching glory Heb. מִזִּיז. From the great glory that is moving and coming nearer to her. זִיז means esmoviment in O.F., movement.”
1167
A.D.
Ibn Ezra Jewish
1089–1167
“With the breast of her consolations. Comp. Thou shalt suck the breast of kings (60:16). A fulness of joy is meant by this expression; for consolations are here the opposite of mournings. תמצו That you may milk out. Comp. מיץ the churning (Prov. 30:33), though of a different root. מזיז R. Jonathan b. Uziel translates it מחמד from the best; R. Moses Hakkohen compares it with וזיז שדי the wild beasts of the field (Ps. 1. 11); but this explanation is forced. I explain the word to be hap. leg.”
Source
1274
A.D.
Thomas Aquinas Catholic
1225–1274
“And the fruit of congratulation as to participation in her gladness or peace: that you may suck: your breasts are better than wine (Song 1:1); as to participation in her glory, that you may milk out, as though extracting milk: then shall you abound in delights in the Almighty (Job 22:6).”
Modern · 1953 →

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