_House. This is a prophecy that the temple should be cast off. (Challoner) --- Isaias alludes to the return of the captives, as to a figure of the Church. They had flattered themselves with the idea of building a magnificent temple. God regards it not, as long as they follow their own wills and cher... [ Continue Reading ]
_He. Septuagint, "the wicked who." (Haydock) --- Ox. This is a prophecy, that the sacrifices which were offered in the old law, should be abolished in the new; and that he offering of them should be a crime. (Challoner) --- Without the proper dispositions, sacrifice only displeases God. (Calmet) ---... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mockeries. I will turn their mockeries upon themselves; and will cause them to be mocked by their enemies. (Challoner)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brethren, the Idumeans, &c., or the Jews, who would not believe in Christ._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lord, who is about to quit the temple, and to abandon the Jews to their internal dissensions, and to the arms of the Romans. Many prodigies announced this judgment. (Calmet) --- One Jesus cried for seven years and five months, "Woe to the temple," &c. At last he cried, "Woe to myself;" when he was... [ Continue Reading ]
_Before, &c. This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, who were born as it were all on a sudden to the Church of God. (Challoner) --- Sion furnished the first preachers of the Gospel. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Day. Shall a whole nation be born at once? Twelve fishermen effect the most surprising change in the manners of the world._... [ Continue Reading ]
_God. His grace converts the nations. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_For her. Ye shall be comforted, (Haydock) when the captives return, and the gospel is propagated._... [ Continue Reading ]
_You. St. Paul fed the weak with milk, 1 Corinthians iii. 2., and Hebrews v. 12., and 1 Peter ii. 2._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Herb, in baptism and the resurrection. --- Enemies, the Chaldeans, infidel Jews, and all the reprobate, ver 15. How many miracles were wrought by Christian preachers! Persecutors have come to an untimely end. (Calmet) --- Before judgment, the world shall be consumed. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Many. Few are chosen. (Haydock) --- All the wicked shall perish eternally. (Menochius) _... [ Continue Reading ]
_Within the court, or gardens, where they purified themselves, foolishly supposing that this would remove their crimes, as the pagans did. (St. Jerome) (Tertullian, Bapt. v.) --- Instead of gate, St. Jerome wrote unam, "one," moon or Hecate, which is obviously derived from Hebrew Achat, chap. lvii.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gather them, thoughts, &c. All is personified in poetry. The Gentiles shall witness my judgments. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sign; the cross, which Christ left to enlighten us, (Ezechiel ix.; St. Jerome; Worthington) or the gospel, with the power of working miracles. Some Jews shall be saved, and shall preach to others, as God's servants. --- Sea. Hebrew, "Tharsis, to Phul in Thebais, Lud, ( Ethiopians.; Bochart) who wer... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brethren, as the converts may justly be styled. (Calmet) --- Coaches, ( carrucis.) Hebrew circaroth, (Haydock) "dromedaries," (Bochart) "with songs of praise." (Chaldean, &c.) The precise import is unknown. Truth shall shew its sweet force. --- Offering; the first-fruits, brought by all with great... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of them, Gentiles; (ver. 19.) some of whom alone will be properly priests, though all enjoy the title in a figurative sense, 1 Peter ii. 9. The Jews strive in vain to elude this text. (Calmet) --- Under the law, one family alone enjoyed this honour: but Christ chooses the most deserving pastors. (W... [ Continue Reading ]
_Name. The faith and morals of Christianity shall subsist for ever, like the gospel, which is termed the new heavens, chap. lxv. 17., and Matthew xvi. 18._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sabbath. Grotius explains this of the Gentiles, who should come to Jerusalem. But this was never realized before the propagation of the gospel. The Jews came thrice a-year. Christians shall attend the sacred mysteries every week, Exodus xiii. 14., and Malachias i. 11._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Men; rebellious Jews and persecutors, who perish miserably. --- Flesh. Josephus (Jewish Wars vi. 16.) describes the horrors of the last siege of Jerusalem. The prophet may allude to the fires kept up in the vale of Hinnon; (chap. xxx. 33.) and our Saviour applies this text to the damned, Mark ix. 4... [ Continue Reading ]
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