Isaiah 44:3
_Stock. I will give fresh life to my people, as to the figure of Christ's Church._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stock. I will give fresh life to my people, as to the figure of Christ's Church._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Israel. They shall no longer be ashamed of being called Israelites or Christians._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Witnesses. The history of the true religion is its best proof, chap. xliii. 9, 10. --- Known. Ruled, consequently no other can be truly God. (Calmet) --- Idolaters are foolish, trusting in those who cannot announce future events. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ashamed of the origin and imbecility of their idols. (Calmet) --- All this may be turned against heretics, who worship their own fictions; which the Church never does. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_File. Hebrew mahatsad, (Haydock; Jeremias x. 3.) "to make an ax, with," &c. This is the remote cause of the idol._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man. To be styled afterwards a god. (Calmet) --- Maluit esse deum. (Horace i. ser. 8.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Covered. Septuagint, "darkened." Are Catholics in the same predicament? (Chap. xl. 18.) (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lie. Can I assert in conscience that it is a god?_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Return from captivity, (Calmet) and from their former errors, Matthew xi. 26. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mad. That people may be no longer deluded._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Servant. The prophets and Jesus Christ, whose works never fail, Matthew xxiv. 35. (Calmet) --- In all this prediction of the Church, Isaias alludes to Jerusalem destroyed, and afterwards rebuilt. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Deep. Babylon, situated amid waters, chap. xxi. 1. (Calmet) --- Rivers, as Cyrus did. (Herodotus i. 191.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XLIV. Cyrus. This was spoken 110 years before his birth, which shews the prescience and power of God, so as not to injure free-will. The parents of Cyrus could not give him this name to fulfill the prediction, as they knew nothing of it. Amon was apprised that a person called Josias would o... [ Continue Reading ]