Bible Commentaries

Genesis 9:29 — la enseñanza de la agricultura, etc. por lo que hemos visto que Noe era tan famoso. (Calmet) &mdash Los Rabinos afirman que Dios le dio algunas leyes generales a Noé, que necesariamente debían ser observadas por todos los que obtendrían la salvación: 1. Obedecer las leyes. 2. No maldecir a Dios. 3. No admitir ningún dios falso, ni superstición alguna. 4. No casarse con la propia madre, suegra, hermana de la misma madre, o con la esposa de otra persona, ni cometer pecados contra la naturaleza. 5. Para

Exodus 12:5 — prefiguró a Jesucristo, que nos redimió con su muerte, siendo santo, apartado y condescendiente a alimentarnos con su persona sagrada, en la santísima Eucaristía. Aquí comemos el cordero sin romper un hueso, aunque tomamos toda la víctima. (Juan xix. 36; 1 Corintios v. 7.) (Calmet) &mdash- Para cumplir esta figura, Cristo sustituyó su propio cuerpo, y, haciendo sacerdotes a sus apóstoles, les ordenó continuar este sacrificio para siempre. Llegó a Jerusalén el décimo día de Nisán, el domingo. Se entregó

Esther 10:2 — Second year, the same when Darius gave an edict for building the temple, (1 Esdras iv.; Tirinus) and the year before the great feast, (chap. i. 3.) when the Jews little thought of such danger hanging over them. (Calmet) (Worthington) --- Benjamin. Chap. ii. 5., we read Jemini, which shews that they have the same import. (Tirinus) When.

Psalms 14:5 — Usury. This was always blameable, though Moses tolerated it with respect to the Jews lending to the Chanaanites, Deuteronomy xxiii. 19., and Luke vi. 35. The Roman law condemned the guilty to pay double as much as the thief, who was to restore twice the value of what he had stolen. (Cato 1.) --- Under the semblance of kindness it does a real injury; (St. Hilary) etiam his invisa quibus

Psalms 26:1 — second anointing, as he speaks of great dangers. But this is all uncertain. (Berthier) --- For dangers threatened David even after he had been declared king. (Haydock) --- Before Samuel anointed him, he was not endued with the spirit of prophecy. See 1 Kings xvi. 13., and 2 Kings ii. 4., and v. 3. (Calmet) --- Some suppose that he alludes to the entertainment given him by Abimelech[Achimelech?] , (ver. 5 and 12.; Theodoret) or to that night when, fearless of danger, he took away Saul’s cup;

Psalms 9:1 — 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 master of music, over the young women." See 1 Paralipomenon xv. 18. (Calmet; Menochius) --- These authors have joined almuth, which St. Jerome, &c., read as two words, "on the death of the son." Protestants, "upon Muth Labben." David might allude to the death of Absalom,

Leviticus 1:3 — gracias por la bendición recibida o en oración por nuevos favores o gracias. De modo que luego se ofrecían a Dios los sacrificios con cuatro fines o intenciones diferentes, respondiendo a las distintas obligaciones que el hombre tiene para con Dios: 1. A modo de adoración, homenaje, alabanza y gloria, debido a su divina Majestad. 2. A modo de acción de gracias por todos los beneficios recibidos de él. 3. A modo de confesión y anhelo de perdón por los pecados. 4. A modo de oración y petición de gracia,

Leviticus 11:2 — Animales que vas a comer, etc. Se ordenó la prohibición de tantas clases de animales, aves y peces, en la ley, 1. para ejercitar al pueblo en obediencia y templanza; 2. Para restringirlos de los vicios de los que estos animales eran símbolos; 3. porque las cosas aquí prohibidas eran en su mayor parte malsanas y no apropiadas para comerlas; 4. para que el pueblo

Matthew 23:5 — Phylacteries.[1] These were pieces or scrolls of parchment, on which were written the ten commandments, or some sentences of the law, which the Jews were accustomed to fasten to their foreheads, or their arms, to put them in mind of their duty. Thus they interpreted

Matthew 27:3 — commit, till it is perpetrated. (St. John Chrysostom) --- Although Judas conceived a horror at his crime, and confessed it, and made satisfaction to a certain degree by restoring the money, sitll many essential conditions were wanting to his repentance: 1. Faith in Christ, as God, as a redeemer, as the sole justifier from sin; 2. besides this, there was also wanting hopes of pardon, as in Cain, and a love of a much injured and much offended God. Hence his grief was unavailing, like that of the damned.

Luke 11:41 — But yet that which remaineth, give alms.[1] The sense seems not to be of what remaineth, give alms, as some expound it; but by the Greek, the sense is, give alms of what you have, i.e. of your goods, according to your abilities; and as Tobias said to his son, If thou hast much, give much; if

Luke 16:8 — Thomas Aquinas) --- Children of this world, &c. are more prudent and circumspect as to what regards their temporal concerns, than they who profess themselves servants of God, are about the concerns of eternity. --- Commended the unjust steward.[1] Literally, the steward of iniquity: not for his cheating and injustice, but for his contrivances in favour of himself. --- In their generation; i.e. in their concerns of this life. They apply themselves with greater care and pains, in their temporal

John 21:14 — This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to his disciples. He had appeared to them more than thrice, even the very day of his resurrection. (Matthew xxviii. 16.) Here it is called the third time either because it was the third different day; or because it was the third time that he had them appeared to a considerable number together. After this, he appeared to them frequently, and conversed with them for

2 Corinthians 13:5 — Try your ownselves if you be in the faith.[1] He does not mean if they have a right Christian faith or belief, but either whether they had a saving Christian faith working in them by charity, or as St. John Chrysostom says, a faith that shewed itself by the gift of miracles, as at time commonly

Galatians 4:10-11 — You observe [1] days, &c. These false teachers were for obliging all Christians to observe all the Jewish feasts, fasts, ceremonies, &c. Some of the later reformers find here an occasion to blame the fasts and holydays kept by Catholics. St. Jerome, in his

Ephesians 3:14-15 — (Challoner) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Omnis paternitas, Greek: patria. See St. Jerome on this verse: Deus....paternitatis nomen ex seipso largitus est omnibus....præstat cæteris ut patres esse dicantur. Theodoret, tom. 3. p. 305. Ed. Par. an. 1642. Alii patres, sive corporales, sive spirituales, desuper traxerunt appellationem: Greek: oi de alloi pateres....anothen ten prosegorian []ilkusan. See St. John Damascene, lib. 1. Ortho. fid. chap. ix. Ed. Bas. p. 32. Greek: touto de istion, &c.

1 Timothy 5:14 — The younger [5] (widows) should marry. They who understand this of a command or exhortation to all widows to marry, make St. Paul contradict himself, and the advice he gave to widows 1 Corinthians vii. where he says, (ver. 40.) She (the widow) will be happy if she so remain according to my counsel; and when it is there said, I would have all to be as myself. [See the notes on those places.] He can therefore only mean such young widows,

James 5:7-11 — exhorting them to patience till the coming of the Lord to judgment, which draweth near; his coming to judge every one is at his death. Imitate the patience of the husbandman, waiting for fruit after that the earth hath received the timely and early [1] rain soon after the corn is sown, and again more rain, that comes later to fill the grain before it comes to be ripe. This seems to be the sense by the Greek: others expound it, till he receive the early and latter fruits. (Witham) --- Behold the judge

Revelation 3:1-6 — thy sight, O Lord, so much we are, and no more, says St. Augustine. --- The bishop is charged with this fault, that he did not watch and take care of his flock. He is admonished to repent, and to strengthen those that were not dead, but ready to die.[1] (Witham) --- God does not seek to surprise us and lay snares for us. But when he tells us that he will come like a thief, it is only to admonish us not to slumber. Had he wished to take us unawares, he never would have admonished us beforehand. (Calmet)

2 Samuel 19:43 — shewed less predilection for his own tribe. (Calmet) (Salien) --- But what obligation was there for either? He had been long enough from Jerusalem, and eager to return, as soon as Amasa brought to him the tribe of Juda, and several of Benjamin, ver. 16. What hindered the rest from coming in time? They seem to have pretended more loyalty than they really possessed; otherwise they would not have joined in every rebellion. (Haydock) --- First. Hebrew may be, "did not I first propose the bringing