_Go, Jeremias, and you who publicly adhere to me. --- Man. Sodom would have been spared for the sake of ten just people, Genesis xviii. 32. Before the reform of Josias, Jerusalem was strangely corrupted, though these expressions be hyperbolical, and spoken as it were in the heat of debate. Josias, H... [ Continue Reading ]
_Falsely. Some may confess my name. But they swear falsely, chap. iv. 2. (Calmet) --- Unless the requisite conditions be observed, an oath is unlawful. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Return. The miseries with which, Achaz, &c., were afflicted, produced no amendment._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Foolish idiots, (Calmet) who have had no means of receiving instruction. (Haydock) --- Such might be more excusable; but when the chiefs offend, the evil is irremediable._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lion. Nabuchodonosor. --- Wolf. Cambyses, (Calmet) and leopard. Epiphanes. (Haydock) --- The Chaldeans, Persians and Greeks afflicted them. (St. Jerome) --- The first beast may designate Nabuc: the second Nabuzardon: the third, Alexander [the Great?] or Epiphanes. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_How can. I have only the character of judge left. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stallions. Hebrew mashcim, (Haydock) "stretching out," as others translate, Ezechiel xxiii. 20. (St. Jerome) --- The horse is the most intemperate of all animals but man. (Aristotle, Hist. vi. 22.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Destroy, at the first taking of the city, ver. 18., and chap. iv. 27. --- Branches. Children of Jechonias, (chap. xxii. 30.) and the people. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "her battlements," (Haydock) Chaldean, "palaces."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Them. The evil shall fall on the head of these impostors. So the wicked deride the prophets (Calmet) impugning the known truth. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fire. Thou shalt declare their impending ruin._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ancient. Nemrod founded the empire of Ninive and of Babylon, Genesis x. 10. Nabopolassar had succeeded to the ancient Assyrian and Chaldean sovereigns. Under his son, Nabuchodonosor, the dominions were much enlarged. --- Say. 4 Kings xviii. 26._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Devour. Hebrew, "destroy." They did not eat human flesh._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Own. You shall thus know the difference between the masters. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Understanding. Literally, "heart," chap. iv. 22. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_It. Nature and chance are improper terms. God regulates all, and has established those laws which preserve the world._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rain, in autumn and in spring, Deuteronomy xi. 14. (Calmet) --- Fulness. Hebrew, "the weeks for harvest." (Haydock) --- That of barley began at the Passover, and that of wheat ended before the feast of weeks, (Exodus xxxiv. 22., and Leviticus xxiii. 10.; Calmet) or Pentecost. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Away. The rain comes unseasonably._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man. As some tyrants have done, though this implies (Calmet) the eagerness with which the wicked strive to corrupt mankind. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of the widow, is not in Hebrew. (Calmet) --- Fatherless. Protestants add, "yet they prosper, and they, " &c. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nation? It is contrary to God's justice not to punish the guilty. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER V. _ Clapped. Hebrew, "came down to, or received in, or domineered by their hands." The priests concurred with these impostors for their own ends. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]