Книга пророка Исаии, Глава 34, стих 8. Толкования стиха

The Word alluded to the siege of Jerusalem when he says: “Your ropes broke, because they were not strong. Your mast has bent; it will not release the sails; it will not raise a signal until it is given up for plunder.” Then, next, after speaking about those nations who besieged it and about the judgment of God against the whole world that will come on all the ungodly, he resumes teaching the word concerning Zion and Jerusalem, teaching that a year of recompense and a day of judgment has come on it. And in the above verses he says: “Rise up, you wealthy women,” “mention the days of a year in pain with hope.” Therefore, the present prophecy states when this year in the verse at hand came to be, the year when he determines that they will be stricken “with pain.” And it was necessary for the word from the mouth of Christ to be presented in the words which the prophet himself says next: “The spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to summon the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution for our 224 God, to comfort all who mourn so that to those who mourn for Zion glory is given.” You see how the phrases year of the Lord and day of recompense have been said in these verses, and it signifies the same in this context: For it is a day of the Lord’s judgment and a year of recompense for the judgment of Zion. Surely then he is speaking of one and the same year and one and the same day, during which “the poor will have good news preached to them,” and those who “mourn over Zion will be comforted” at the coming of the Christ. And those who were “wealthy women” are called to lamentation, and the things that were said in the preceding verses about Zion were about to happen. And all these things about the coming of our Savior Jesus Christ were fulfilled, and it was then that those who indeed believed in him and who received the grace that comes through him enjoyed the benefit of those most auspicious good tidings. They set themselves in an unfavorable position, and falling away from every good hope of grace itself, they sank under the threats of the darkest doom.

  Евреи, как мы выше сказали, утверждают, что это предречено о римской империи и что под мщением Сиону предсказывается опустошение некогда весьма могущественнаго царства, о чем, какъ многие из наших полагают сообразно с буквальным смыслом, написано также в Апокалипсисе Иоанна. Но так какъ говорится: день мщения у Господа, год воздаяний за суд Сиона, то мы разумеем тот год, о котором сам Спаситель говорит: Дух Господен на Мне, Его же ради помаза Мя, благовестити нищим посла Мя, проповедати плененным отпущение и слепым прозрение, нарещи лето Господне приятно и ден воздаяния, утешити вся плачущая, дати плачущим Сиона славу (Лк. 4:18-19; Ис. 61:1-3), и о котором выше сказано ( 32:5): женщины богатыя, встаньте и во время скорби вспомните днях года с надеждою.