_Eat this book, and go speak to the children of Israel. By this eating
of the book, was signified the diligent attention and affection with
which we are to receive and embrace the word of God; and to let it as
it were, sink into our interior by devout meditation. (Challoner) ---
The revelation came... [ Continue Reading ]
_Book, in spirit; (Calmet) or in reality, he chewed the volume.
(Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mouth. I readily accepted the commission, but soon found the
difficulties to which it would expose me, ver. 12., Jeremias xv. 16.,
and Apocalypse x. 10._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Unknown. Hebrew, "heavy." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "hard." (Haydock)
--- It is not above thy strength, Deuteronomy xxx. 12. --- To thee. He
insinuates that the Gentiles would obey the apostles. (St. Jerome) ---
But the time was not yet come. (Calmet) --- From this text and Matthew
xi. 21., it appe... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hard. Literally, "rubbed" like a stone, or brass; attrita. (Haydock)
--- God's ambassadors (Ephesians vi. 20.; Calmet) must do their
utmost. (Haydock) --- The success must not puff them up, nor the
failure too much depressed them, as all regards God, (Matthew x. 40.)
who will know how to make thing... [ Continue Reading ]
_Harder. If they will not blush, thou shalt not be ashamed to lay
their disorders before their eyes, though they be such as ought not to
be mentioned, as becomes saints. (Haydock) See chap. xvi., and xxii.
(Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER III.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spirit; wind (Hugo) or angel, took me through the air; (Prado.) or, I
went willingly. (St. Jerome) --- Commotion, like an earthquake,
(Hebrew; Septuagint) occasioned by the motion of the chariot, or the
voice of the cherubim, ver. 13._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spirit, resolved to rebuke (Calmet) sinners. Septuagint, "the spirit
of the Lord also lifted me....and I went aloft ( like a meteor; Greek:
meteoros) by the impulse of my spirit; for the hand of the Lord upon
me was strong; and I went loft, to the captivity, and passed through
them....conversing in... [ Continue Reading ]
_The heap of new corn. It was the name of a place; in Hebrew, Telabib,
(Challoner) as the Chaldean leaves it (Menochius) with the three Greek
interpreters. (Calmet) --- Tel means "a heap," and abib "new corn."
(Haydock) --- There was no new wheat in the fourth month, but rather
in May or June, chap.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Watchman: the usual title of those placed over others, chap. xxxiii.
2., and Isaias xxi. 6. Let none perish through thy neglect. (Calmet)
--- "He (the pastor) kills the man whom he delivers up to death by
silence." (St. Gregory, hom. xi. 9.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Iniquity, for want of thy instruction; (Haydock) or, if thou neglect
to reclaim him, (Calmet) and he perish, or owe his conversion to
another, when duty requires thee to take care of him, thou shalt
answer for the possible bad consequences. Thy sin is great, whatever
become of him. But if he be damn... [ Continue Reading ]
_Warn. It is the duty of a pastor to warn the just as well as sinners.
(Worthington) --- It will not suffice to do this publicly: sometimes
we must go from house to house, like St. Paul, and compel those who
are in the hedges to enter the marriage feast, by the most persuasive
arguments. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bands. It is uncertain whether by his order, or they supposed he was
deranged, as our Saviour's brethren meant to treat him, Mark iii. 21.
The Chaldean explains it figuratively of God's order, attaching the
prophet to his service. (Calmet) --- But real chains would more
forcibly shew the future cap... [ Continue Reading ]
_House. "When there is a multitude of sins, (or sinners; peccatorum)
the offenders are unworthy of being corrected by the Lord." (St.
Jerome) --- The prophet's silence might suffice to admonish them.
(Calmet) --- He heard the Lord's commands to chap. xi. 24., before he
spoke to the people. (Menochiu... [ Continue Reading ]
_Forbeareth. Septuagint, "disbelieveth, let him disbelieve." So we
read, He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; (Apocalypse xxii.
11.) which denotes the most desperate condition. (Haydock) --- Aquila
(2 edition) has, "he who abandons, shall be abandoned." (St. Jerome)
--- The man who makes good... [ Continue Reading ]