Commentary on Isaiah

What it is

Eighteen books on Isaiah, the largest of Jerome's commentaries, giving the Hebrew and the Septuagint side by side wherever they differ and reporting the Jewish readings he had been taught before dismissing most of them.

Why it lasted

The source of the line that became the church's charter for biblical study — ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ — and the fullest record of how a fourth-century Christian scholar actually used Jewish learning.

Scripture it works from

Read it here

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19 sections · complete, from Commentariorum In Isaim Prophetam Libri Duodeviginti (stoa0162.stoa023.opp-lat1).

Elsewhere

The complete text is held here and can be read in the reader.

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.