_The. Grabe (de Vit. p. 8.) observes that the four first verses were omitted in the Septuagint by some careless transcriber, long before the days of Origen, who restored them from the Hebrew and the other Greek versions. On such occasions his work was very useful; but the marks being soon neglected,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sin of idolatry, chap. xv. 13._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Be left. Protestants, "discontinue from thine," &c. (Haydock) --- The land shall have its sabbaths, which thou wouldst not allow. (Chaldean) (Exodus xxii. 11., and Leviticus xxvi. 34.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thus. Septuagint continue from the last chapter, "cursed," &c. (Haydock) --- Sedecias had formed alliances with several princes, instead of turning to the Lord, chap. xxvii., and xxxvii. (Calmet) --- Our chief dependence must be on God, not on human policy. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tamaric. A barren shrub, that grows in the driest parts of the wilderness. (Challoner) --- Harhar denotes some sort (Haydock) of "useless wood." (Symmachus) See chap. xlviii. 6., and Isaias xvii. 2. --- Salt, like the environs of Sodom, the fruits of which were bad._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fruit. See Psalm i. 3. (Pindar, Nem. viii.) How different from the wicked! (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Perverse. Septuagint, "deep." --- Unsearchable. Septuagint, "man, who shall know him?" (Haydock) --- God alone can search the heart by his own power. He enables saints to do it by the light of glory, or of prophecy; as Eliseus and St. Peter knew secret transactions. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Partridge. Hebrew kore, (Haydock) may mean the "coucou." The kra lays many eggs, all of which she does not hatch. (Calmet) --- Protestants, " As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not," &c. (Haydock) --- It is rare that all produce birds; so the unjust do not succeed (Calmet) in the e... [ Continue Reading ]
_Throne. The temple. We may also read "O high," &c., chap. xiv. 21._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Earth, where alone their portion shall be, (Apocalypse iii. 5,) or they shall be forgotten. It is a proverbial expression, like that of Catullus: Dixit: sed mulier cupido quod dixit amanti_ In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. --- _Living, which never fail, unlike those of the wicked, chap.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Come. We have several instances of such impious sarcasms, Isaias xxviii. 10., and xxxiv. 13., Amos ii. 12., and Micheas ii. 6. (Calmet) --- We fear not the Chaldeans. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Troubled. Hebrew, "in haste to be a pastor after thee." Chaldean, "I delay not, at thy command, to announce thy truths to them," chap. i. 6. Jeremias was aware of the dangers attending his office, yet not dismayed. --- Day: approbation, (1 Corinthians iv. 3.) or advantages of the world. (Calmet) --... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let them be confounded, &c. Such expressions as these in the writings of the prophets, are not to be understood as imprecations proceeding from malice or desire of revenge, but as prophetic predictions of evils that were about to fall upon impenitent sinners, and approbations of the ways of the div... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gate of the palace, or that by which the kings entered the temple, on the west. The time when this admonition was given is not ascertained._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XVII. _ Souls. Those who broke the sabbath were to die, Exodus xxx. 15., and Numbers xv. 32. --- Burdens, or servile work. (Calmet) --- The Jews trifle in deciding what is a burden. (Origen, prin. iv. 2.) --- Sabbath often denotes the observance of the whole law. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_David. I will observe my covenant, 2 Kings vii. 12. --- Horses: in prosperity, (Menochius) provided this law, as well as all the rest, be observed. (Haydock) --- Such temporal rewards were commonly proposed under the law, as spiritual ones are now. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sacrifices. Hebrew mincha, (Haydock) "offerings" of flour, wine, &c. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fire, by means of Nabuzardan. (Menochius) --- The city shall be entirely destroyed. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]