_Edom. Edom and Bosra (a strong city of Edom) are here taken in a mystical sense for the enemies of Christ and his Church. (Challoner) --- St. Jerome with reason finds it difficult to explain it of Christ, as it regards the Machabees. (Houbigant) --- The first six verses are applied to our Saviour's... [ Continue Reading ]
_Press. Christ suffered, (St. Cyril) and punished his enemies, Apocalypse xiv. 19. Judas received God's sword from Jeremias, (2 Machabees xv. 15.) and liberated his people._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Me. I depended on the goodness of my cause, and on God's aid, chap. lix. 15. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Drunk with the wine of my fury, Psalm lxxiv. 9., and Ezechiel xxiii. 31. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_I, Isaias; or rather the hero mentions what induced him to rise up, 1 Machabees xvi. 10. (Calmet) --- The Jews confess God's mercies. (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Deny, or prove degenerate. (Calmet) --- God approves the conduct of the Machabees. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Presence, in high authority, Exodus xxxiii. 20. (Calmet) --- The angel guardian of the Church. Particular guardians also see God's face, Matthew xviii. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_One; Moses, Numbers xiv. 29., and xx. 3, 12._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER LXIII. _ Flock. Psalm lxxvi. 21. --- One. Moses inspired by God. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Not, the road was so plain, Wisdom xix. 7. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Back. This is spoken by the prophet in the person of the Jews, at the time when for their sins they were given up to their enemies. (Challoner) --- Judas uses the same language at Maspha, 1 Machabees iii. 50. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Abraham, &c. That is, Abraham will not now acknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou, O Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and no other can be called our parent in comparison with thee. (Challoner) --- Abraham is not able to save us. (Calmet) --- The patriarchs... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hardened, &c. The meaning is, that God, in punishment of their great and manifold crimes, and their long abuse of his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from them, and so given them up to error and hardness of heart. (Challoner) --- They had abused his patience, to sin the more. (Theodoret)... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nothing; holding them in the greatest contempt. Epiphanes though he should make them easily change their religion. His persecution lasted only three years and a half. --- Sanctuary. 1 Machabees i. 23, 49, 57., and iii. 45._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Name. We seem to have no distinction, temple, &c. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "We are thine. Thou never bearest rule over them. They were," &c. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]