Bible Commentaries

Genesis 16:3 — que se haya aprobado una carta de divorcio, no es menos contraria a la doctrina católica, que solo permite una separación de las partes de la cama y la comida. , en casos de adulterio; pero nunca de un segundo matrimonio, mientras ambas partes vivan. (1 Corintios vii; San Agustín de Adulto. Conj. I., Ciudad de Dios xvi. 25, 38; y otros padres.) (Haydock) &mdash Para esposa. Pluralidad de esposas, aunque contraria a la primitiva institución del matrimonio, Génesis ii. 24, fue permitido por dispensación

Exodus 28:30 — que estaba en agitación, asumieron un brillo sorprendente, así como los que estaban sobre los hombros del sumo sacerdote. Pero esto no había sucedido durante 200 años antes de que comenzara su historia. El Urim y Tumim no estaban en el segundo templo, 1 Esdras ii. 63. Algunos piensan que estas palabras fueron grabadas en las piedras en lo racional. No se puede determinar si Dios explicó su voluntad mediante sonidos articulados, como (Mateo iii. 17,) este es mi hijo amado, o si instruyó internamente

2 Kings 6:25 — In Samaria. It had raged in all the country above three years, (Salien) and continued other four, chap. viii. 1. The continuance of the siege added fresh horrors. --- Pieces is not expressed in Hebrew: a sicle is understood. (Haydock) --- Lyranus supposes that the whole ass was sold for about 38 crowns, (Haydock) or 130 livres; as we say commonly, "so much

Leviticus 18:21 — Moloch". Septuaginta, "para servir al gobernante". Siríaco, "casarse con mujeres extrañas"; como también el cap. xx. 2. Uno de los hijos de Acaz fue ofrecido a este ídolo de los amonitas; y sin embargo, quizás, sucedió a su padre; (4 Reyes xvi. 3; xviii. 1,) que muestra que los niños no siempre fueron quemados hasta la muerte, sino que sólo se les ilustró o se les hizo pasar por encima o entre dos fuegos. Sin embargo, muchos afirman que los niños fueron consumidos con frecuencia en las llamas, y Dios

Daniel 5:1 — Baltassar. He is believed to be the same as Nabonides, the last of the Chaldean kings, grandson to Nabuchodonosor. He is called his son (ver. 2, 11, &c.) according to the style of the Scriptures, because he was a descendant from him. (Challoner; St. Jerome in Isaiah xiii.; Usher, &c.) --- Some think that he was brother of Evilmerodac. (ver. 11.; Baruch i. 11.) But he seems rather to have

Numbers 19:2 — pecados. (Challoner) &mdash- Edad, tres años. Algunos traducen "completamente rojo". Suponen que estas regulaciones están en oposición a las costumbres de los egipcios, que nunca sacrificaron la vaca, considerándola sagrada para Isis o para la luna. Spencer (Rit. Ii. 15) agrega, que el color rojo estaba anteriormente en la estimación más alta; y esta víctima representó la muerte de Cristo, quien expió nuestras impurezas. Los egipcios inmolaron toros de color rojo, por odio a Tifón, y para apaciguar a ese dios peligroso,

Micah 5:2 — Ephrata. This was the ancient name (Haydock) of Bethlehem, (Genesis xxxv. 16.) though some think that it was so called after Caleb’s wife, 1 Paralipomenon ii. 19. --- Art, or "art thou?" &c., which makes it agree with Matthew ii. 4. --- Little. Hebrew tsahir, (Haydock) is often rendered "considerable."

Haggai 2:10 — it the preference. (Haydock) --- The ancients who had seen the former, wept (Worthington) when that of Zorobabel was founded, confessing its inferiority (Haydock) both in size and elegance. It was only 60 cubits high and broad, while the former was 120, built of polished stone and covered with cedar. Zorobabel had rough stones, 1 Esdras v. 8., and vi. 3., and 2 Paralipomenon iii. 4., and 3 Kings vi. 7. As for the same temple, enlarged and adorned by Herod, it continued not long in that state; and

Zechariah 12:10 — prays with us ineffably, Romans viii. 26. (Calmet) --- Me. So far the prophet speaks in Christ’s name. He afterwards relates how the people will grieve for him, beating their breasts, Luke xxiii. 48. This was clearly verified in Christ, John xix. 31. (Menochius) --- But in the gospel we read, him whom they have pierced, as the context seems here to require. (Haydock) --- Some Hebrew copies read in like manner, (Calmet) the Erfurth Manuscript 2 having aliu, "on him," though Michaelis remarks

Matthew 22:17 — very easy to persuade Pilate, that Christ and his disciples coming from Galilee, were favourer of that sect, who, from the name of their founder, Judas Galilæus, were called Galilæans; and some of whom, as we read in St. Luke (chap. xiii. 1,) Pilate put to death, whose blood he mingled with their sacrifices. Indeed so determined were the enemies of Christ to injure him with Pilate on this subject, that not withstanding his answer was plainly in favour of the tribute, yet they blushed not

Matthew 26:28 — his grace and justice, by the merits of this blood, which shall be shed for you on the cross; and which is here mystically shed for many, for the remission of sins: for the Greek is in the present tense in all the three evangelists, and in St. Paul, 1 Corinthians xi, and the Latin Vulgate of St. Luke, xxii. 19. Hoc est corpus meum quod pro vobis datur: Greek: didomenon, klomenon ekchuvomenon. =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Greek: Touto to poterion, e kaine diatheke en to aimati mou

Matthew 27:57 — When it was evening, &c. St. John tells us, (Chap. xix. 31.) that the day on which Jesus died, being the day of preparation, (literally, the parasceve) that is the Friday or eve of the great sabbath, to wit, of the sabbath-day, which happened in the week of the paschal solemnity, the Jews desired of Pilate

Matthew 28:16 — &c. This is generally thought to have happened at Jerusalem. When the apostles and disciples were gone into Galilee, he shewed himself to seven of them, as they were fishing on the lake of Tiberias (John xxi. 4.) We read also in this chap. (ver. 16,) that he appeared to them on a mountain in Galilee: what mountain is was we know not. It may be of this apparition that St. Paul says, (1 Corinthians xv. 6,) Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once. He also tells us he appeared

Deuteronomy 27:26 — En el. El Samaritano, la Septuaginta y San Pablo (Gálatas 3, 10) leen, en todas las palabras, etc., que probablemente deben entenderse de los puntos principales de la ley, especificados en los versículos anteriores. (Calmet) Ver ver. 4. &mdash Algunos opinan que las bendiciones que Moisés ordenó que se proclamaran,

John 20:19 — And the doors were[1] shut, or being shut; and remaining still shut, his glorified body entered by penetration through the doors, as he did at his resurrection. Maldonatus take notice, that Calvin was the first that denied this, against the belief of all the ancient Fathers

John 20:23 — heaven, by virtue of which, the pastors of Christ’s Church absolve repenting sinners upon their confession. (Challoner) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] [27.] Whose sins you shall forgive, &c. See St. Cyril, lib. xii. in Joan. p. 1101, Greek: metanoousi sugginoskontes. St. John Chrysostom, hom. lxxxvi. p. 517. nov. Ed., Magna est sacerdotum dignitas, quorum remiseritis peccata, &c. See also lib. iii. de sacerd. t. 1. p. 383. nov. Ed. Ibid., noli esse incredulus, sed fidelis,

1 Corinthians 4:8 — atheistical men, that make a jest of all revealed religion. To go about preaching in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, in want, under afflictions and persecutions, is what they think is to be miserable: they despise such men as the out-cast, the dross,[1] and the dregs of mankind. (See the Greek text.) (Witham) --- He speaks to the Corinthians, who forgetting their first fervour, and the Christian modesty which St. Paul had taught them, both by word and example, were endeavouring to distinguish themselves

Joshua 15:59 — Eltecon: given afterwards to the tribe of Dan, (chap. xix. 44,) and then to the Levites, chap. xxi. 13. The Alexandrian Septuagint here add many cities, which are omitted in Hebrew. (Calmet) --- "Theco and Ephrata, (this is Bethlehem) and Phagor, and Artam, and Koulon, and Tatami, and Sores, and Karem, and Gallim, and Baither, and Manocho, eleven

Judges 11:23 — He could not be proved to be a thief or an usurper, but was in peaceable possession when the war with Israel commenced, in which he lost all his dominions. (Haydock) --- By the same right, David kept what he had taken from the Amalecite plunderers, (1 Kings xxx. 20,) and Abraham might have retained the spoils which had been carried off from Sodom, Genesis xiv. 21. The Roman and Grecian histories are full of such examples; and this right was admitted by all as the law of nations, Quæ ex hostibus,

1 Samuel 7:1 — In Gabaa. That is, on the hill, for Gabaa signifieth a hill. (Challoner) (1 Paralipomenon xiii. 6.) --- It was perhaps the citadel, (Haydock) or an elevated situation, such as were generally chosen for the temples both of the true and of false gods. (Calmet) --- Abinadab was a Levite of renowned virtue. (Menochius) --- The