Книга пророка Исаии, Глава 42, стих 16. Толкования стиха

Then, after threatening these things concerning them, he again turns to speak of the grace that will be given to the Gentiles. Therefore, he continues on: And I will lead the blind by a road they have not known. And did he not teach who these blind were in the verses above when he said in the person of Christ: “I have given you as a covenant to my race, as a light to nations, to open the eyes of the blind”? Therefore they themselves, then, were once blind among the Gentiles, and he promises to make them walk by a road they have not known. For how have we come to know the way to God except through his divine grace? Since all the translations read unanimously, and I will lead the blind by a road they had not known, we remember that the Savior said these things when he said, “I am the way.” And seeing that we did not at first believe in Christ and his saving word, he directs his promise to us who were blind. When he speaks also concerning the paths of which they had no knowledge, he clearly indicates that we will understand the prophetic Scriptures by living lives in accord with the divine teachings. He will turn the darkness into light for us and the crooked places into a straight path. For the ignorance of God which once abounded in our souls he changed into the light of knowledge, and the places that were once crooked to us, that is, the sayings from Scripture that we thought were obscure, he promises to make these 275 plain. And he continues on to say: I will do these things for them, and to be perfectly accurate, he did not promise that he would speak the words to them but that he would do them. For, indeed, these things were said of old among the prophets, and he has taken it on himself to accomplish them in deed; and, he says, I will not forsake them.

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И вновь пророк называет слепыми тех, кто испытывал недуг безве­рия и утратил зоркость разума. Он обещает повести их неизвестными путями (Ис 42:16): ибо они истин­ный жизненный путь не ведали, но ходили тропами заблуждения. Мрак сделаю светом пред ними (Ис 42:16). Иными словами, сказано: избавив их от прежнего неведения, удостою их божественного знания; поис­тине, неведение подобно мраку, а знание - свету. И кривые пути - пря­мыми (Ис 42:16). Ведь труднопрео­долимый путь духовной мудрости, воздержания и праведности Он сделал легким, подав трудам добро­детели надежду на благо будущего века. Эти слова Я для них исполню и не оставлю их (Ис 42:16, LXX), - говорит Господь. Иначе сказать: непрестанно Я буду удостаивать их этих благ, и всяческую буду им ока­зывать заботу и в грядущее время.