Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this unto you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
Since initial measures did not suffice, He proceeded to an overthrow similar to the Sodomites, this was the kind of thing, as he said, that was inflicted on them by divine wrath.
These. He mentions not what, to keep them in greater suspense and dread; (St. Jerome) or he will put in execution what he had threatened before, ver. 2.
Meet. Septuagint, "beseech. "Aquila, "oppose "or to receive the Messias. (St. Jerome)
Prepare by repentance to find mercy. (Calmet)
After long captivity, Christ will save some. (Worthington)
And thus even the good movement of the free-will, whereby anyone is prepared for receiving the gift of grace is an act of the free-will moved by God. And thus man is said to prepare himself, according to Proverbs 16:1: "It is the part of man to prepare the soul"; yet it is principally from God, Who moves the free-will. Hence it is said that man's will is prepared by God, and that man's steps are guided by God.
