Ointment. A fly cannot live in it. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xi. 19.) --- Hence the smallest faults must be avoided, (Calmet) and superfluous cares, (St. Gregory) as well as the conversation of the wicked, (Thaumat.) particularly of heretics. (St. Augustine, contra Fulg. 14.) --- Detractors may be... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hand, to do well or ill, Deuteronomy i. 39., and Jonas iv. 11. (Chaldean)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fools. People judge others by themselves. (Calmet) --- Thus Nero could not believe that any were chaste. (Suetonius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Place. If the devil tempt or persuade thee to sin, repent and humble thyself; or if thou hast offended the great, shew submission._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prince, who seems to have been guilty of any indiscretion._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rich. Such were chosen magistrates, Exodus xviii. 21., and Proverbs xxviii. 16., and xxx. 21._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him. Those who disturb the state or the Church, shall be in danger._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stones. Landmarks or walls, Proverbs xxii. 18. --- Them. God will punish his injustice, in meddling with another's property._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Made blunt. After being repeatedly sharpened, (Calmet) it will be more difficult to cut with it, and will expose the person to hurt himself, ver. 9. (Haydock) --- Man, since original sin, is in a similar condition. --- Wisdom. The wise perform great things even with bad tools. Hebrew, "wisdom is th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Silence. Protestants, "without enchantment, and a babbler is no better." (Haydock) --- But he compares the detractor to a serpent, (Calmet) as he infuses the poison into all who pay attention to him. (St. Jerome; St. Bernard)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Grace. Pleasing and instructive. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tell him. How foolish, therefore, is it to speak about every thing!_... [ Continue Reading ]
_City. Being so stupid, that they know not, or will not take the pains to find what is most obvious. (Calmet) --- Thus the pagan philosophers knew all but what they ought to have known; (St. Jerome) and many such wise worldlings never strive to discover the paths which lead to the city of eternal pe... [ Continue Reading ]
_When thy. Hebrew literally, "whose," cujus, as [in] ver. 17. (Haydock) --- St. Jerome give two senses to this passage, the literal and the mystical, according to his usual custom. The dominion of young men and of luxurious judges is reproved, as well as innovations in matters of religion, Isaias ii... [ Continue Reading ]
_Noble. Royal extraction, ( Greek: Esthlon genesthai. Euripides, Hec.) and education, afford many advantages which others, who raise themselves to the throne, do not enjoy. Hebrew, "the son of those in white," (Calmet) or "of heroes." (Montanus) --- Eurim, (Haydock) or Chorim seems to have give rise... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER X. _ Through. If we neglect our own, or other's soul, (Haydock) in the administration of Church, (St. Jerome) or state, all will go to ruin._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Feast. As if they were born for this purpose, (Philippians iii. 19.; Calmet) fruges consumere nati. (Horace, i. ep. 2.) --- Money. --- Scilicet uxorem cum dote fidemque et amicos,_ Et genus, et formam regina pecunia donet. (Horace, i. ep. 6.) --- Hebrew, "money answers all purposes," (Haydock) to... [ Continue Reading ]
_Said. Pigeons are taught to carry letters in the east, and Solomon alludes to this custom, or he makes use of this hyperbole to shew, that kings will discover the most secret inclinations by means of spies. We must not speak ill even of those who are worthy of blame, ver. 16. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]