The hidden things of the son. The humility and sufferings of Christ, the Son of God; and of good Christians, who are his sons by adoption; and called hidden things, with regard to the children of this world, who know not the value and merit of them. (Challoner) --- It may also signify, "to Ben, the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Praise and thanks, or I will confess. (Worthington) --- To thee. Hebrew, "to the." David had received many favours from God, and he has testified his gratitude, and shewn how we ought to praise God, (St. Jerome; Calmet) with soul and body. (Berthier; Worthington) --- Wonders; victories gained over... [ Continue Reading ]
_Back; routed. After Saul's family was taken off, none durst oppose David. They saw that the Lord had set him on the throne. (Calmet) --- Only after his sin, rebels began to molest him. (Haydock) --- The Fathers explain this of the devil and his agents. (St. Jerome) --- God repelleth the enemy, when... [ Continue Reading ]
_Justice, or rightly. (Calmet) --- God alone always discerns what is just. (St. Chrysostom) --- Man overcomes the devil, with the assistance of God's grace. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Name, or destroy them. The name is often put for the thing itself. Yet many of those nations who once made such a noise, are now quite forgotten. No traces of them can be found. (Haydock) --- The Egyptians and Chanaanites had been exterminated. (Calmet) --- Ever, for all eternity, as long as God sha... [ Continue Reading ]
_Swords. "My enemies have sunk under the sword." (Syriac) (Haydock) --- Frameæ is a German word for "javelins," pointed with iron, which they might either throw, or use in close fight. (Tacitus) --- It is often put for a sword. Et martii frameam. (Juvenal xiii.) --- The weapons of the enemy being ex... [ Continue Reading ]
_In judgment. St. Jerome, "to judge." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_World. This globe must give place to new heavens and earth, (Berthier) after its inhabitants have been judged. (Haydock) --- Justice. Men may be corrupt judges, but God cannot. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
PSALM IX. (CONFITEBOR TIBI DOMINE.) The church praiseth God for his protection against her enemies. _ Poor. Hebrew ladac, "the oppressed," (St. Jerome) "broken with grief." (Calmet) --- Tribulation. God's assistance is requisite both in prosperity and adversity. He generally manifests his power on... [ Continue Reading ]
_Know, with love. Such are always heard. What wonder if others be rejected, who flee from God? (St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine) (Calmet) --- The learned often trust too much to their own knowledge, whereas God has made choice of the simple, Matthew xi. 25. (Berthier)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ways, ( studia) "favours," (Haydock) works, &c. (Calmet) --- This was done by the apostles. (St. Augustine) --- Men ought chiefly to study the precepts of God. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Their, may be omitted, as it would seem to refer to the Gentiles. God declares that he will demand the blood of all that shed it without authority, Genesis ix. 5. (Haydock) --- He had punished the Chanaanites, &c., for their cruelty, as he did afterwards the persecutors of his Church. If the names... [ Continue Reading ]
_Enemies. Israel has been so long under oppression._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Death, from the most imminent dangers. (Haydock) --- Daughter. In the places where the inhabitants of Sion assembled, (Berthier) or publicly in the Church. (Worthington) --- In hell, the damned would wish to die. (Theodoret) --- The gates of death may also signify sin, (Origen) and the bad example... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hid. These are the enemies of salvation. (Berthier) --- The nations which had oppressed the Jews found their fortifications and arms turned against themselves, (Calmet) which is often the case of the wicked. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hands. Caught in the very act, so that he cannot deny the crime. Here we find in Hebrew (Calmet) higaion sela, which St. Jerome renders, "by meditation for ever." (Haydock) --- Septuagint, Symmachus, and some Latin copies, "a canticle of the psalm's division," Greek: diapsalmatos. Here perhaps the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hell; shall die, or be lost. ( Convertantur.) Literally, "Let," &c. But it may be properly explained as a prediction, or menace. (Haydock) --- "Those who are devoid of God's justice, return to the dominion of the devil." (Robertson, Lexic.) --- Zeal, and not revenge, prompts David to speak thus. (W... [ Continue Reading ]
_Not perish. Hebrew does not express the negation, but it must be understood. (Berthier) --- Protestants supply it from the former part of the verse. The expectation of the just will not be frustrated._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man. Hebrew enosh, (Haydock) "weak," sinful "man." (Berthier) -- Gentiles, or all notorious sinners. The Jews despised the Gentiles, as the Romans did all barbarians. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Lawgiver. Hebrew mora. (Haydock) --- Septuagint intimates one who rigorously enforces his laws. (Menochius) --- Symmachus, "a law." Hebrew, "instruction." (Calmet) --- Houbigant, "fear." St. Jerome, "terror: let the nations know that they are men always." Sela is thus frequently explained as a part... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 1. [ Psalm x. according to the Hebrews.] In modern times, the Jews have done it. (Worthington) --- The Church allows this title, though the Septuagint found none in their copies, and therefore looked upon all to be one psalm. The change of subject is no proof of the contrary,... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 2. _Fire. With zeal (Worthington) and indignation, or rather is oppressed (Calmet) and persecuted. See Micheas iii. 3. (Haydock) --- They. Houbigant would substitute "he is caught." But we may well explain this of the sinner and the unjust, [Hebrew Psalm x.] ver. 3. (Berthier... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 3. _Blessed by flatterers, while his is full of himself also, as the Hebrew insinuates. (Calmet) --- "The miser, applauding himself, has blasphemed the Lord. The wicked in the height of his fury will not seek, nor is God in all his thoughts." (Haydock) --- This is more energe... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 4. _Seek to regain his favour, (Worthington; Menochius) or rather (Haydock) he flatters himself that God will not punish him, [Hebrew Psalm x.] ver. 13. (Calmet). --- Multum irascitur, dum non exquirit. (St. Augustine) See Psalm xxxv. 5._... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 5. _Filthy. Hebrew, "as one in labour." He can enjoy no ease. Chaldean, "his ways are prosperous." Junius, "paved." (Calmet) --- Removed. Hebrew, "height itself before him, he will blow upon all his enemies." This more forcibly denotes his violence and scorn. (Berthier) (Acts... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 6. _Evil. Always happy, or as the Hebrew, Chaldean, &c., may signify, "I shall not desist from evil." (Calmet) --- I will gratify my passions. Who dares to oppose me? (A.[Haydock?]) --- The pride of Nabuchodonosor is known, Daniel iv. 19., &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 7. _Sorrow. Which he prepares for others, and yet feels himself. (Calmet) --- Etiam ad perniciem laboratur. (St. Augustine) --- To gain hell requires some "trouble. (Haydock) --- The wicked is his own executioner. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 8. _Rich. St. Jerome, "in the porches," is equivalent. Moderns translate, "villages," which Houbigant would change for a word signifying "ditches," without necessity. (Berthier)_... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 9. _Poor. "His eyes look round the strong," for aid; or "the poor," (Protestants) for destruction. See [Hebrew Psalm x.] ver. 14._... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 10. _Fall. Protestants, " and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones." (Haydock) --- He imitates the lion in the fable, which feigned sickness. (Horace, ep.) --- But the Vulgate gives a better sense. (Calmet) --- "He will bring under the broken, (poor) an... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 11. _End. God delays for a time; but he will punish. (Calmet) --- Religion lays open all the sophisms of infidelity. (Berthier)_... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 14. _Sorrow. Thou punishest with pain. (St. Augustine) --- Thou beholdest all the iniquity which is committed, (Calmet) but waitest until the measure be full. (St. Chrysostom) --- Terrible delay! --- Poor. St. Jerome, "art left thy strong ones," who distrust in themselves, an... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 15. _Found. When the means of sinning are withdrawn, he will repent; (Sts. Chrysostom, Augustine; Isaias xxviii. 19.) or it is a sort of irony: he will see whether, as he said, God will take no notice, [Hebrew Psalm x.] ver. 4. (Calmet) --- He shall be utterly exterminated, P... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 16. _Shall. Or Hebrew, "have perished." In the prophetic style, things to come are spoken of as past, on account of their certainty. (Berthier) --- The wicked shall not appear in the kingdom of God, to pollute his earth. (Haydock) --- Ye nations which have seized the promised... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 17. _The. Hebrew, "Thou, Lord, hast heard the desire of the humble. Thou wilt prepare their heart; thou wilt cause thine ear to hear." (Protestants; Haydock) --- Luther seems to have altered the text in his German version, in order to establish his error of the certitude of s... [ Continue Reading ]
or Hebrew Psalm x. Ver. 18. _Earth. St. Jerome is more expressive, "that the man of earth may by no means cherish pride any longer." Though he may be the greatest monarch, he is but man, dust and corruption, ver. 21. (Haydock) --- Christ, who shewed himself wonderful in humility at his birth, (ver.... [ Continue Reading ]