Isaiah 38:9
_Ezechias. Sanchez groundlessly thinks it was composed by Isaias. (Calmet) --- Ezechias was afflicted lest he should give way to dangerous joy. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ezechias. Sanchez groundlessly thinks it was composed by Isaias. (Calmet) --- Ezechias was afflicted lest he should give way to dangerous joy. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hell. Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead. (Challoner) --- He was afraid to die without issue. (St. Jerome; ver. 12.) --- Manasses was born three years later. (Calmet) --- The king would naturally have died. (St. Augustine, de Gen. ad lit. vi. 17.) (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Living. I shall not assist at the festivals of the Lord in the temple._... [ Continue Reading ]
_For me. He represents his disease, as an inexorable creditor._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Truth. He speaks only of the body._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lord. The answer is given, (4 Kings xx. 9.) which seems to evince that this is only an extract. (Calmet) --- The prophet prescribed the medicine, and the king asked for a sign before he sung the canticle. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXXVIII.... [ Continue Reading ]