Commentary Par XXV 89-96

Tozer (DDP Tozer.Par.XXV.91-93): 'Isaiah [61:7]: "Therefore in their land they shall possess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them." Dante interprets "the double" as meaning the blessedness of soul and body; cf. doppia vesta here with due stole in [Par XXV 127].'  And see John (in Apoc. 3:5; 7:9-17), speaking more directly of the general resurrection.

Stephany (Step.1995.1), p. 381, suggests that, although not cited directly in this canto, Isaiah 61 offers an indirect gloss on it.  In Luke 4, Jesus reads from this chapter of Isaiah in the temple; when he sees that his words are offensive he insists that 'no prophet is honored in his native land' (Luke 4:24), words that certainly must have seemed to the exiled poet to fit his own condition as well.