Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, forever and ever:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Box. This word was covered with wax. (Propertius iii. 3.)
Write, that none may pretend that they were not admonished. Some think that this was addressed to Jeremias: but Isaias spoke to his incredulous countrymen.
[Isaiah] set his prophecy down in writing in a new book so that, after his prophecy was fulfilled, what he had written might bear witness against the Jews of what the inspired prophet predicted to them a long time before. This is why he did not simply write it in a book, but in a new book, a book capable of staying sturdy for a long time without easily falling apart, a book which could last until the events described in it would come to pass. - "Discourses Against Judaizing Christians 5.4.6"
