Wherefore [art thou] red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Ver. 2. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel?] The wondering Church had proposed two questions in Isaiah 63:1 - viz., Who that was? and why so bloodied? To the first she bad an answer in few, but very full in Isaiah 63:1. To the second, she here again presseth for an answer; and the rather because, candor magis quam cruor, clemency would better beseem a Saviour than cruelty. a
a Augustine.