_Root. Juda shall not be exterminated, like the Assyrians. (Calmet) --- Christ shall spring from the blessed Virgin [Mary], (Worthington) for the salvation of mankind. The Jews agree, that this prediction regards the Messias; though some, with Grotius, would explain it literally of Ezechias. They do... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him. In the form of a dove, John i. 32. (Haydock) --- "The whole fountain of the Holy Ghost descending." (Ev. Nazar.) (St. Jerome) --- Christ was filled with his seven gifts, and of his fullness his servants receive. (Worthington) --- Yet all virtues are the gifts of the holy Spirit, and the number... [ Continue Reading ]
_Filled. Hebrew, "breath or smell." So St. Paul says, (2 Corinthians ii. 15.) we are the good odour of Christ. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "he shall make him of quick understanding (marginal note, smell) in the fear," &c. (Haydock) --- Ears. Which are often deceived. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wicked. Antichrist, (2 Thessalonians ii. 8.) and all impiety, by means of the apostles._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Reins. He shall possess these virtues, performing his promises with the strictest fidelity. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wolf. Some explain this of the Millennium. (apud St. Jerome) (Lactantius vii. 24.) --- But the more intelligent understand, that the fiercest nations shall embrace the gospel, and kings obey the pastors of the Church. (Calmet) --- Lead. Or "drive," as the word is used by Festus. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Basilisk. Psalm ix. 13. The apostles subdued kings and philosophers, without any human advantages._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Kill. The most inveterate pagans, being once converted, entirely alter their manners, Osee ii. 18._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ensign. the cross is the standard of Christians. --- Sepulchre. Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., "rest." St. Jerome give the true sense. The holy places have been greatly reverenced, and Christian princes strove for a long time to recover them. (Calmet) --- They are respected even by the Turks. Christ's de... [ Continue Reading ]
_Time. After the deliverance from Sennacherib, they shall return from captivity. Ezechias recalled some few, 2 Paralipomenon xxix. 9. --- Remnant. Some embraced the gospel, Romans ii. 2., and Acts ii. 41., &c. --- Phetros, in Egypt. --- Of the Mediterranean sea, and all places to which the Jews went... [ Continue Reading ]
_Away. Under Ezechias the Israelites began to join with Juda. But they did it more cordially after their return from Babylon._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shoulders. Or confines, Ezechiel xxv. 9. Ezechias and the Machabees attacked the Philistines. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "and they shall fly on the ships of the strangers; they shall plunder the sea together, and those on the east, and Idumea." (Haydock) --- East. Ammonites, &c., often defeated by th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tongue. Gulf of the Mediterranean, near Pelusium, or the seven mouths of the river Nile. The country was ravaged by Sennacherib, Cambyses, Alex.[Alexander the Great?], and Epiphanes, chap. xix. 4., &c. The Jewish captives shall return thence, chap. l. 3., and Zacharias x. 10._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Assyrians. They shall march without impediment. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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