_Day. Under the law of grace, Christians sing this and such like canticles. (Worthington) --- Sion. This word is not in Hebrew, &c., though it be understood. (Calmet) --- Other nations have their respective cities. All Christians admit this one. (Worthington) --- The captives continue to return than... [ Continue Reading ]
_Truth. The Jews who returned from Babylon, were more virtuous than their ancestors, as the prophets intimate; though they have Christians principally in view._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Away: condemning the virtuous, as if they were fools. (Menochius) --- Symmachus, "our work, or fiction, is taken away." Hebrew may have other meanings. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_You, people of Juda._... [ Continue Reading ]
_High: Nabuchodonosor and his empire._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Needy. The Jews shall behold the ruin of the city by Cyrus, (Calmet) who was of a contemptible nation. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_In. God will remove every obstacle, at their return._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Night of distress._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Justice. Clemency would therefore be ill placed. If the Israelites had not been led away captives, would they ever have been reformed?_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXVI. _ Not see. Let them perish, or live to witness the glory of the Jews._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Works, both in punishing and rewarding. (Calmet) --- God crowns his own gifts. (Estius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lords of Babylon, (Calmet) and our own passions. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Giants; the proud emperors of Babylon, whom thou wilt destroy. Septuagint, "physicians;" as Rephaim has also this meaning._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nation of the Jews. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "add evils to them, O Lord; add evils to the nobles of the land." (Haydock) --- Hebrew may have the same sense. --- Ends: princes, or the Chaldeans, sending them also into captivity; or thou hast propagated thy Church over the world._... [ Continue Reading ]
_They. Septuagint, "We," &c. (Calmet) --- Affliction is a wholesome medicine. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wind. Our expectation of aid from others has been disappointed. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "the spirit of thy salvation, which thou hast wrought on the earth. We shall not fall, but the inhabitants of the earth shall fall." (Haydock) --- Their copies must have been different from ours. --- Fallen. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dead: a civil death, shall regain their liberty; and those who have left this world in a state of virtue, shall be happy. --- Ruin. Cyrus liberated the Jews, having conquered Babylon._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Away, and Cambyses be destroyed, Ezechiel xxxviii. 11. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shall cover her stain no more. This is said with relation to the martyrs, and their happy resurrection. (Challoner) --- The blood of the saints shall demand vengeance. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]