_Be. Septuagint, "comfort my people." Let them not be dejected. (Haydock) --- The end of the captivity, and still more the coming of the Messias, afford consolation, (Calmet) and to this the prophet chiefly alludes. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Evil. Hebrew and some Latin copies have, "warfare." --- Double. A rigorous chastisement, Apocalypse xviii. 6. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_God, that he may conduct his people from Babylon. (Sanchez) --- Yet the prophet speaks chiefly of John the Baptist, (Matthew iii. 3.; Calmet) who is evidently foretold. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Plain. For the captives, or the conversion of the world, Baruch v. 6._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Glory. God will rescue his people. Christ will redeem mankind._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Field. On the downfall of the empire of Babylon, the Jews were liberated._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XL.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou, female. How beautiful are the feet of those who announce good tidings! (Romans x. 15.) (Haydock) --- Thus a feminine noun is applied to Solomon, Ecclesiastes i. Prophets make known to all the coming of the Saviour. (Calmet) --- Christ preaches from the mountain, and his apostles over the worl... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him. Christ will reward and punish, Jeremias xxxi. 16., and Luke ii. 34._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Young, or have lately had young lambs, f\'9ctas. Jesus is the good shepherd, John x. 14._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who. He now proceeds to shew the difference between God and idols. --- Fingers, is not expressed in Hebrew, which may denote the epha, Psalm lxxix. 6. (Calmet) --- God's power and goodness in the works of the creation, shew what he will do for man. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dust. Hebrew caddak, (Haydock) "as dok fallen." (Symmachus) --- It may signify an atom. (St. Jerome) --- If all nations be only like a drop, what portion of it do I occupy? (Calmet; ver. 17.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Image. Catholics never pretend to represent the Deity, when they depict the Father as a venerable old man, &c. The do not adore pictures, as our adversaries would insinuate. If we were disposed to cavil, we might bring the same charge against them. For a few weeks ago, "a beautiful altar-piece, pai... [ Continue Reading ]
_Silver. Is God like these idols? (Haydock) --- Who knows not that the workman is better than they are? (Wisdom xiii. 11.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wood. Hebrew hamsuccan, (Haydock) which Septuagint, Chaldean, and St. Jerome explain of a sort of wood used for idols. Moderns take it to be "a rich," or rather "a poor man. He who is mean in his offering, chooses wood that," &c. (Calmet) (Protestants)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Beginning, by the light of nature, and (Worthington) has not Moses declared that God alone created the world? (Haydock) --- His power and goodness herein convince us that he will not deny grace. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Locusts, compared with the greatest animals. --- Nothing. Hebrew, "a curtain." Septuagint, Syriac, "vault, (Calmet) or chamber," Greek: kamaran._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Searchers. Hebrew, "princes to nothing." (Protestants) --- Philosophers know nothing independently of God, nor can they subsist without him. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Host of heaven, the stars, &c., Genesis ii. 1., and Psalm cxlvi. 4._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Judgment, or conduct, (Genesis xl. 13.; Calmet) as if God minded not our affairs._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eagles, who grow young, when they get new feathers, Psalm cii. 5. (St. Jerome) --- In this and the following 26 Chapter s the prophet chiefly comforts his people, as he had rebuked them for their crimes in the first part. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]