_This thunder, the effects of which are so terrible, that it is often styled the voice of God. (Calmet) (Psalm xxviii.) (Menochius) --- The consideration of rewards (chap. xxxvi. 33.) stimulates the good, while thunder strikes the heart with terror. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Earth. Lightning appears from the east to the west, Matthew xxiv. 27._... [ Continue Reading ]
_After. Light travels faster than sound, (Haydock) though thunder and lightning are produced at the same instant. (Calmet) --- Found out. Philosophers can only propose their conjectures on the cause of thunder. This sense is confirmed by the Greek, Chaldean, &c. Hebrew may be, "he delays not;" (Calm... [ Continue Reading ]
_He sealed up, &c. When he sends those showers of his strength; that is, those storms of rain, he seals up; that is, he shuts up the hands of men from their usual work abroad, and confines them within doors, to consider his works; or to forecast their works; that is, what they themselves are to do.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Den. Foreseeing the tempest and retreating for shelter._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Parts. The south, (chap. ix. 9.) whence storms commonly came in that country, (Calmet) from the sea or desert of Idumea. (Haydock) (Psalm lxxvii. 26., and Zacharias ix. 14., and Isaias xxi. 1.) --- North wind or pole. (Worthington) --- Yet the south seems to be designated; (ver. 17., and chap. xxxv... [ Continue Reading ]
_Abundantly. He cause it to freeze or rain at pleasure. (Haydock) (Psalm cxlvii. 17.) (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Corn requires rain. (Haydock) --- Light. As they are transparent, they do not hinder the sun from appearing. Hebrew, "the brightness of the sky disperses the clouds, and the clouds shed their light" in the rainbow, (ver. 15.; Grotius) or lightning. (Junius; Calmet; Menochius) --- Protestants, "Also... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tribe. Hebrew also, "for correction." (Haydock) (Amos iv. 7.) --- Land of promise, Psalm lxvii. 10._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Light: the rain-bow, according to the best interpreters; or the lightning. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Paths. Hebrew, "the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of Him whose knowledge is perfect?" chap. xxxvi. 4. Dost thou know what suspends the heavy clouds in the air? (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Are. Hebrew, "How thy," &c. It is also beyond thy comprehension, why thou shouldst be too hot when the south winds blows (Haydock) moderately, though tempests generally proceed from the same quarter, ver. 9. If thou art in the dark, respecting these things, which thou feelest, how canst thou preten... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brass. Hebrew, "Hast thou with him stretched out (or beaten, as brass, tarkiang; which word Moses uses for the firmament) the heavens, which are as solid (Chaldean, and like) a molten looking-glass?" which was formerly made of metal, Exodus xxxviii. 8. The Hebrews looked upon the sky as a sheet of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Darkness. Thou who art so learned, give us some information, what we may blame in the works of God. Cutting irony! (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_He shall be swallowed up. All that man can say, when he speaks of God, is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that man is lost, an das it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean. (Challoner) --- The man who should are to mention what I could reprehend in God's works, would... [ Continue Reading ]
_Light; being hindered by the clouds, and dazzled when they are removed. Yet we presume to judge of the secrets of Providence! (Calmet) --- Away. As there is a constant vicissitude of these things, so there is of happiness and misery. (Menochius) --- Septuagint, "For the light is not seen by all. It... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gold. Septuagint, "from the north, gold-coloured clouds. Above these, great is the praise and honour of the Almighty." (Haydock) --- When the wind blows, the clouds are dispersed, and the sky appears serene. Each country has its peculiar advantages. In the north, Ophir, &c., may boast of gold: but... [ Continue Reading ]
_Worthily. Hebrew, "the Almighty, we cannot find him out," (Haydock) or comprehend his nature or mysteries. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Fear him, and receive with respect whatever he shall appoint. (Haydock) --- And all. Hebrew, "he fears not any that are wise of heart." He knows that the most intelligent (Calmet) must confess their ignorance, when they attempt to examine his divine nature. Simonides being desired by Hiero to expres... [ Continue Reading ]
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