St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Isaiah is believed to be his first major theological work, produced as part of his academic training as a bachelor of theology. Carefully attending to the language and structure of Isaiah’s prophecy and using Scripture to shed light on Scripture, Aquinas explains how Isaiah’s message brought comfort to Israel and pointed forward to the coming of the Christ.
Louis St. Hilaire is an author, translator, and software engineer with a specialty in digital tools for the study of Latin and the Catholic tradition. He is the developer and coeditor of Verbum’s Catholic Topical Index and author of That You Might Have Life: An Introduction to the Paschal Mystery of Christ.