Bible Commentaries

Genesis 30:2 — Enojado por la demanda precipitada y aparentemente blasfema de Rachel. (Menochius) &mdash- Como Dios, pro Deo. ¿Debo obrar un milagro en oposición a Dios, que te ha dejado estéril? A él debes dirigirte a ti mismo. Los hebreos observan con justicia que Dios se ha reservado las cuatro claves de la naturaleza: 1. De la generación; 2. De sustento, Salmo cxliv. dieciséis; 3. De la lluvia, Deuteronomio xxviii. 12; Y, 4. De la tumba o resurrección, Ezequiel xxxvii. 12. (Tirinus)

Exodus 3:2 — El Señor apareció. Es decir, un ángel que representa a Dios y habla en su nombre. (Challoner) (Hechos vii. 30; Gálatas iii. 19.) &mdash Sin embargo, muchos de los Padres suponen que este ángel no era otro que el Hijo de Dios, el ángel del gran concilio, (Malaquías iii. 1,) y San Agustín (q. 2, en Ex.) No desaprueba esta opinión. (Calmet) &mdash Dios es llamado fuego consumidor, Deuteronomio iv. 24. Apareció de nuevo en el fuego, cap. xxiv. 17. (Calmet)

Psalms 105:29 — Multiplied. All who had murmured perished, or this may relate to the 24,000, Numbers xxv. 9. (Calmet) --- Ezechiel xx. 23. St. Paul (1 Corinthians x. 8.) speaks of those 23,000 slain by the Levites. The Hebrew which has only 3,000 must be inaccurate. Temporal chastisements were intended to prefigure those which are eternal, as the Jews knew that such rewards and punishments were to be considered (Matthew xix. 16.; Berthier) as the spiritual sense of the law. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 20, 39.)

Psalms 13:4 — Know my just providence, though they would fain keep it out of sight, (ver. 1.) that they may indulge their passions. (Haydock) --- My people. These we may conclude, were just; (Berthier) at least in comparison with their cruel oppressors, (Haydock) who made it their daily practice to injure them, (St. Augustine) as they could

Psalms 8:4 — Fingers, as if they had been formed in play, while the Incarnation is the work of God’s right hand. (Eusebius) (Calmet) --- Heavens, moon, and stars, denote the Church. No mention is made of the sun, because it is the emblem of Christ, who was the Creator. (Berthier) (Apocalypse xii. 1.) --- This text proves that the world was not formed by angels, as some ancient heretics asserted. David, perhaps, wrote this at night; and the sun and stars are not seen together. (Menochius)

Ecclesiastes 1:10 — &c.) (Calmet) --- Men’s souls, which are created daily, are nevertheless of the same sort as Adam’s was; and creatures proceed from others of the same species, which have been from the beginning. (St. Thomas Aquinas, [Summa Theologiae] p. 1. q. 73.) (Worthington) --- Natural and moral things continue much the same. (Menochius)

Jeremiah 15:19 — Converted, and cease to fear the people; (Calmet) and confide in my precious words, (Haydock) despising the vile threats of the people. (Menochius) --- Mouth; interpreter, Exodus iv. 16. Chaldean, "If thou wilt recall the wicked into the way of justice, though shalt fulfill my will." See St. Jerome in Psalm cv. 32. --- To thee. Thus Sedecias and the people acted, chap. xxi. 1., and xlii. 2. (Calmet) --- The prophet must not give way to sinners, but hey must be reclaimed. (Worthington)

Jeremiah 28:1 — chapter, improperly. In the 4th year, seems rather an interpolation; though the Septuagint omit in the beginning, &c., to reconcile the passage; and others date the 4th year from the last sabbatical one, which is quite unusual. See chap. xxvii. 1. (Calmet) --- Sedecias reigned 11 years, so that the 4th might be said to be the beginning. (Worthington) --- Prophet. Septuagint, "false prophet," to explain the meaning: the original denotes any prophet. (St. Jerome) (Haydock)

Ezekiel 36:26 — Flesh. The Jews at their return fell not so often into the sins of idolatry, &c., of which the prophets complained. But yet they were far from answering this character. Great irregularities prevailed under Nehemias, and in the days of the Machabees the priests publicly worshipped idols, 1 Esdras ix., and 2 Esdras v., and viii., and 2 Machabees iv., and v. Christ enables his servants to act with purity unto the end, by the influence of his all-powerful grace. (Calmet)

Hosea 4:6 — Silent. Septuagint, "like those who had," &c. --- Knowledge. Jeroboam I had appointed unlawful priests, and some of the house of Aaron went over to him, and were excluded from officiating at Jerusalem, after the captivity, 1 Kings xii. 31., and Ezechiel xliv. 10. Knowledge is always expected of priests, Deuteronomy xvii. 8., and Malachias ii. 7. (Gratian. dist. 38. c. omnes.) (Calmet) --- When the power of sacrificing is withdrawn, all spiritual functions cease, as sacrifice

Numbers 26:59 — Levi. Septuaginta, "que dio a luz estos ( Lobni, etc.) a Leví, en Egipto; y ella dio a luz a Amram, Aarón", etc., como si Jocabed hubiera sido esposa tanto de Leví como de Amram, lo cual es muy improbable. Es más probable que las esposas de estos dos llevaran el mismo nombre. El hebreo puede estar muy de acuerdo con la Vulgata. Ver Éxodo ii. 1. (Calmet) &mdash- Posteriormente se prohibió que una persona se casara con su tía, Levítico xviii. (Worthington)

Numbers 5:6 — Cometer, unos contra otros, ver. 7. (San Agustín, q. 9.) Cuando la cosa es secreta, de modo que los jueces no pueden conocerla, el infractor debe, no obstante, acatar la decisión del sacerdote. Moisés condena al que había robado un buey para restituirlo con otro, o incluso para dar cinco bueyes, si no tiene el robado en su poder, Éxodo xxii. 1, 4. (Haydock) &mdash Negligencia, no con desprecio; (Menochius) aunque sabe que está transgrediendo la ley divina y natural. (Tirino)

Micah 4:3 — "coulters." (Worthington) (Mart. xiv. 34.) (Calmet) --- Learn, &c. The law of Christ is a law of peace; and all his true subjects, as much as lies in them, love and keep peace with all the world. (Challoner) --- They will sustain injuries meekly, 1 Corinthians vi. (Worthington) --- When Christ appeared, the Roman empire enjoyed peace. (Calmet) --- Aspera tum positis mitescent sæcula bellis, &c. (Virgil, Æneid i.)

Zechariah 13:3 — Not live. The law condemned those prophets to death, who attempted to lead the people into idolatry, Deuteronomy xiii. 1. People shall be so zealous for God’s honour, that the parents of the seducer shall themselves (Calmet) bring him to judgment. (Haydock) --- Through, or make some mark upon him, as fugitive slaves, &c., were stigmatized. (Calmet) --- Septuagint,

John 2:10 — When men have well drank,[2] or plentifully; this is the literal sense: nor need we translate, when they are drunk, being spoken of such company, where our Saviour, Christ, his blessed Mother, and his disciples, were present. See Genesis xliii. 34; 1 Machabees xvi. ver. 16, where the same word may be taken in the same sense. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] When they have drank well: cum inebriati fuerint, Greek: otan methusthosi. See Legh. Crit. Sac. on the word Greek: methuo. ====================

Joshua 7:2 — Contra Hai, para ver la situación y la fuerza de esa ciudad, que estaba a unas 10 millas al oeste, o más bien al norte, de Jericó. Posteriormente fue reconstruida, 1 Esdras ii. 28. &mdash- Bethaven y Betel son el mismo lugar; (San Jerónimo; Calmet) aunque muchos los distinguen, con Cellarius. El primer nombre significa "casa de iniquidad", porque Jeroboam instaló allí un becerro de oro. Betel era su denominación anterior, como consecuencia de la visión de Jacob, Génesis xxviii.

Philemon 1:5 — Thy charity and faith....in the Lord Jesus,[1] and towards all the saints. In the Greek is towards Jesus Christ, and towards all the saints. By the saints he seems to mean, as elsewhere, all Christians; so that the sense may be, of thy faith towards Christ, and of thy charity towards all the saints

Philemon 1:6 — among you. This seems the sense of the following verse, where St. Paul expresseth his joy in hearing of Philemon’s charity towards the saints. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Ut communicatio, Greek: e koinonia See St. Paul, 1 Corinthians i. 9. &c. =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Evidens; most Greek copies, Greek: energes, efficax, but in some, Greek: enarges.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:15 — surprising works might be manifest under heaven. To every creature his mercy is evident, and he has divided his light from darkness with adamant.["] (Haydock) --- His counsels are unsearchable, and the good are entirely separated from the reprobate, 1 Timothy vi. 16., and Luke xvi. 26.

Baruch 9:48 — and Josephus seem more full: (Calmet) "Swam over, and they (the enemies) did not cross the Jordan after them." (Haydock) --- Bacchides did not pursue the Jews. (Menochius) --- Protestant marginal note quotes Josephus, ([Antiquities?] xiii. 1.) who says two thousand were slain. (Haydock)