_Face. Address, or speak without fearing any man. (Worthington) --- Seir: Idumea. He speaks of its devastation, both by Nabuchodonosor on the side of Moab, and by the Machabees in what remained, Jeremias xxvii. 7., and 1 Machabees iv. 60., and xiv. 33. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Enemy. God revenges the injuries done to his Church, as if they were done to himself, Acts ix. 4. (Worthington) --- The enmity of Jacob and of Esau seemed to commence in the womb, and was increased by the purchase of the birth-right, till Jacob's prudence disarmed his brother. Their descendants sou... [ Continue Reading ]
_Blood. The Machabees sprung from the same stock. Pursue the Idumeans, and force them to receive circumcision, 1 Machabees iv. 15._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Inhabited for a considerable time, as [in] chap. xxvi. 20._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Two. I will add the country of the Jews to my own, or will possess the land belonging to the kingdoms of Juda and of Israel. Their hopes were blasted. They never occupied any thing belonging to the Israelites, and what they had taken from Juda, as far as Hebron, was recovered. --- There, witness of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wrath. The Jews shall treat you as you have threatened to do unto them. --- By them, my people. Septuagint, "to thee."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Derogated. Septuagint, "bawled;" or Hebrew, "multiplied your words against me," as if I could not protect my inheritance. (Haydock) --- You would pretend to judge me, and to fathom my designs._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rejoice. After the captivity, the Machabees shall conquer Edom._... [ Continue Reading ]
_As, &c., is not in the Roman Septuagint. St. Jerome says it was marked with an asterisk, being taken from Theodotion. (Calmet) --- Grabe supplies to thou shalt. His copy has the rest:..."thou shalt know that I am their Lord." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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