Come near unto me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I:
and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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 he spoke long before the event, by divine inspiration. (Chaldean) (St. Jerome)