_Strong. Hebrew and Septuagint imply, "woman." (Haydock) --- Validam. (St. Cyprian, Test. i.) --- After the death of Christ, the Jews had none strong. (St. Jerome) --- Strength. Hebrew, "staff," or support (Leviticus xxvi. 26.) in the dreadful famine which fell on Jerusalem, Lamentations iv. 5, 10.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prophet. Ezechiel was taken away under Jechonias. Other prophets were disregarded, and the cunning man, ( ariolus, which may be understood in a good or bad sense. Calmet) every false prophet was silent, when danger threatened._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Countenance. Septuagint, "the admired counsellor," (Haydock) who came into the king's presence. --- Architect. 4 Kings xxiv. 14. (Calmet) --- Eloquent. Literally, "mystic." (Haydock) --- Aquila and Symmachus, "enchanter."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Effeminate. Hebrew, "babes." Septuagint, "scoffers." Aquila, &c., "changers," (Calmet) who give way to unnatural excesses, Romans i. 27. (Haydock) --- Some manifest a prudence beyond their years: but the last kings of Juda did not, 2 Paralipomenon xxxvi. 1., and Ecclesiastes x. 16._... [ Continue Reading ]
_People. They were divided, whether they should continue to obey Nabuchodonosor, or listen to the Egyptians. Ismael slew Godolias, Jeremias xli._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Garment. They were ready to follow any, who was not quite destitute, like themselves, Jeremias xxxix. 10. --- Ruin. Fallen people._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Clothing. The indigent were excluded from dignities, for fear lest they should seek to enrich themselves by unjustifiable means, Exodus xviii. 22. (Plut.[Plutarch?] in Sol.) (Pliny, [Natural History?] xvi. 19.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_For. The prophet tells what will happen. (Menochius) --- And their. Septuagint, "are sinful, disbelieving what regards the Lord. Wherefore now their glory is brought low." (Haydock) --- They must have followed a very different Hebrew copy from ours. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shew, ( agnitio.) "Knowledge." (Worthington) --- Impudence, &c. (Calmet) --- Hacurath (Haydock) occurs no where else. (Calmet) --- From their countenance we may judge that they are proud, &c. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Well. Jeremias (xxxix. 11.) was treated by the enemy with great respect. Septuagint, "having said, let us bind the just man, for he is troublesome, (Haydock) or displeasing (Calmet) to us. Hence they," &c. (Haydock) (Wisdom ii. 12.) Many of the Fathers quote it thus. But our version agrees well wit... [ Continue Reading ]
_Women. "Let no women be our senate, as the impious Porphyrius objects." The scribes and Pharisees sought for lucre and pleasure. The teacher approved by the Church must excite tears and not laughter; he must correct sinners, and pronounce no one blessed. (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- The last kings of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Pace. Protestants, "and making a tinkling with their feet," (Haydock) by means of little rings round their legs. (Calmet) Stridore ad se juvenes vocat. (St. Jerome, ep. xlvii.) --- The daughters of Sion, denote all the cities and villages which were defaced by the Chaldeans, and still more by the R... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bald. Like slaves, Deuteronomy xxi. 12. --- Hair. Hebrew and Septuagint, "shame."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of shoes. Hebrew, "gold tissue," Psalm xliv. 14. This term occurs no where else, and many of these superfluous ornaments are not well known. But we may conclude that they are pernicious to a state, and hateful to God. (Calmet) --- Decorem....invitatorem libidinis scimus. (Tertullian, cult.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER III.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stench. The Jews are noted on this account, as if in consequence of this curse, or of their being confined to prisons, &c. F\'9ctentium Judæorum et tumultuantium sæpe tædio percitus. --- M. Aurelius "was often weary of the stinking and seditious Jews." (Marcellin ii.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fairest. They shall not be spared. (Calmet) --- "As they have perished by their beauty, their fairest," &c. (Chaldean)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ground. The posture of captives, Lamentations i. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]