OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 48:16

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“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord GOD has sent me with his Spirit.

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Verse 16. Spirit. The Fathers here find the three Persons of the blessed Trinity specified. Isaias was not from the beginning, though the text may also speak of him Calmet. as the spoke long before the event, by divine inspiration. Chal. Saint Jerome

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