Monday, May 20, 2024

Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange's use of Isaiah 2:2-5 as a Prophecy Fulfilled by the Roman Catholic Church

  

The prophecies are fulfilled in this marvelous life of the Church. The holiness, unity, and unconquered stability of the Church not only cannot be explained through natural causes but, indeed, were announced as a divine work by the ancient prophecies as well as by Christ himself.

 

The prophets foretold the universal propagation of the kingdom of God through Israel—that is, that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was to reign over the whole earth. Isaiah had said: “Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. . . . And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising” (Isa 60:1-3, DR; see isa 2:2-5; 18:7; 19:23-25; 23:15-18; 42:6-7; . . . ) (Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith, 2 vols. [trans. Matthew K. Minerd; Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic, 2022], 2:429-30)