Isaiah 25:1
_Amen. He approves of God's judgments (Haydock) against Jerusalem. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Amen. He approves of God's judgments (Haydock) against Jerusalem. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_City; Jerusalem, or rather Babylon, (chap. xxi.; Calmet) or every city (Haydock) in the world. (Menochius) --- Strangers: the temples of idols._... [ Continue Reading ]
_People; the Chaldeans, or their conquerors._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Poor; Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor's fury could not exterminate._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Away. Cyrus (Calmet) shall reduce Babylon the great. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mountain of Sion, a figure of the Church, and of heaven. The Jews shall feast: yea, some of all nations shall partake of the blessed Eucharist, and obtain heaven. The expressions are too grand for a corruptible feast. (Calmet) --- Wine. Literally, "of vintage," (Haydock) on which occasion great rej... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tied. He will open their eyes to the truth of the gospel. They shall be no longer as criminals, expecting death, or mourning._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ever. Hebrew, "he shall swallow up death in victory," 1 Corinthians xv. 54. Christ, by dying, conquered death, and rescued us from its power, if we do not voluntarily subject ourselves to it again. This was faintly represented by the liberation of the captives._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mountain: the Church. (Calmet) --- Moab. That is, the reprobate, whose eternal punishment, from which they can no way escape, is described under these figures. (Challoner) --- The Machabees probably executed this vengeance on Moab, 1 Machabees v. 6._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hands. All his exertions and fury will prove useless. (Haydock) --- Moab shall lie prostrate._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXV.... [ Continue Reading ]