Bible Commentaries

Ezra 2:64 — this number. The rest, who must be taken in to make up the whole sum, were of the other tribes. (Challoner) --- This explanation is given by R. Solomon. (Worthington) --- But we have seen that cities belonging to the ten tribes are specified. See ver. 1, and 29. (Haydock) --- Some might not be able to make out their genealogies, (Calmet) ver. 62. Yet some of these also are counted, ver. 60. (Haydock) --- The particular sums may therefore be incorrect. Josephus ([Antiquities?] xi. 1,) adds 102 to the

Psalms 143:4 — Vanidad. Hebreo hebel, "nada, un vapor", etc., Eclesiastés i. 1., y Santiago iv. 15. (Haydock) &mdash Como no puede subsistir por sí mismo, tampoco puede el hombre sin Dios. (Worthington)

Psalms 2:11 — Temblando, con reverencial temor y humildad, (1 Corintios ii. 3; Amama) como nadie está seguro de la salvación. (Bell. [¿Belarmino?]) &mdash- Más son listados por presunción que por temblor. (Amama)

Psalms 49:6 — Cielos. Apóstoles, (San Jerónimo) o ángeles. (Caldeo) (San Atanasio) &mdash- Dios es juez. Por lo tanto, su sentencia debe ser justa (Menochius) y debemos temblar, 1 Corintios iv. 4. (Haydock)

Proverbs 10:19 — Pecado. No se reprende un discurso prolijo sobre temas de importancia. (San Agustín, Retrac. 1.) &mdash- Pero es muy difícil hablar mucho, sin ir en contra de alguna virtud. (Calmet)

Ecclesiastes 10:1 — Ointment. A fly cannot live in it. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xi. 19.) --- Hence the smallest faults must be avoided, (Calmet) and superfluous cares, (St. Gregory) as well as the conversation of the wicked, (Thaumat.) particularly of heretics. (St. Augustine, contra Fulg. 14.) --- Detractors may be compared to flies:

Jeremiah 30:7 — Grande y terrible para esta ciudad, cuyas murallas exteriores serán demolidas (Beroso; Calmet) y perecerá toda su gloria. (Haydock) &mdash- De eso. Ciro liberó a los judíos, 1 Esdras i.

Daniel 5:7 — Púrpura. Esto y la cadena estaban reservados para la más alta nobleza. &mdash- Tercero, o uno de los tres grandes oficiales. (Cap. VI. 1. y 2 Reyes xxiii. 8. 19.)

Hosea 10:7 — Aprobar. Hebreo: "En cuanto a Samaria, está deshecha. Su rey es como espuma o burbuja", etc., cap. xi. 1. El ternero; (ver. 3.) Se puede referir a Zacharias u Osee.

Hosea 2:24 — Lo que no es mi pueblo, etc. Esto se relaciona con la conversión de los gentiles, (Challoner) como lo explican los apóstoles, 1 Pedro ii. 10. y Romanos ix. (Worthington)

Numbers 11:22 — Peces. Moisés no los distingue de la carne, como tampoco lo hace San Pablo, 1 Corintios xv. 39. Anteriormente, no se permitía el pescado en los días de ayuno. (Calmet)

Matthew 23:9-10 — incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master is to be followed, who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual fathers, (1 Corinthians iv. 15,) and for our masters and teachers. (Challoner) --- This name was a title of dignity: the presidents of the assembly of twenty-three judges where so called; the second judge of the sanhedrim, &c. (Bible de Vence) --- Nothing is

Matthew 24:3 — Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world?[1] We must take good notice with St. Jerome, that three questions are here joined together. 1. Concerning the destruction of Jerusalem; 2. of the coming of Christ; 3. of the end of the world. Christ’s answers and predictions in this chapter, are

Deuteronomy 4:26 — And earth, or all their rational inhabitants. (St. Jerome and St. Basil in Isa. i. 2.) Moses conjures the Israelites, by all that is most sacred, to continue faithful. He speaks with the greatest earnestness, as he does again, chap. xxxii. 1. (Calmet) --- He makes use of a sort of oath, by the creatures, in which God shines forth. (Menochius) --- Destroy you. He will take from you that delightful country, though he will save a remnant of you out of the captivity at Babylon, and in the latter

2 Corinthians 8:4 — Paul, were raised in the Churches of Macedon. (Calmet) --- In the Greek we read, entreating us to receive the alms which they offered as a contribution to the charitable fund destined for the saints, or faithful, at Jerusalem. See Romans xv. 25. 26. and 1 Corinthians xvi. 1. 3.

1 Timothy 2:11 — En silencio. Ver 1 Corintios xiv. 34. Ver San Juan Crisóstomo. [3] (Witham) [BIBLIOGRAFÍA] En silentio. San Juan Crisóstomo ( griego: log. Th .) Griego: edidazen apax e gune, kai panta katestrepse.

2 Timothy 2:24 — Apto para enseñar [9] e instruir a otros. (Witham) [BIBLIOGRAFÍA] Docibilem, griego: didaktikon. Ver 1 Timoteo iii. 2. que se traduce allí como doctorem, y significa uno apto para enseñar.

Judges 4:6 — if the will of God had been notified to him before. We find that he make some demur, ver. 8. (Haydock) --- Thabor. A city of this name was also built at the foot or on the top of the mountain, and belonged to Zabulon. In it attributed to the Levites, 1 Paralipomenon vi. 77. The mountain rises in the midst of a vast plain, to the height of 30 stadia, (Josephus, Jewish Wars iv. 2.; St. Jerome in Osee v. 1,) or above 3000 paces, "which make a league, or an hour’s walk." It is inaccessible

2 Samuel 10:17 — Helam. Tolomeo menciona Alamata, en el Éufrates. Pero tal vez deberíamos leer el hebreo Lehem, "se encontró con ellos". Ver 1 Paralipomenon xix. 17. Algunos traducen "vino a su ejército".

2 Samuel 24:8 — Tierra. Sin embargo, no enumeraron a los levitas ni a Benjamín, ni siquiera al resto exactamente, ya que Joab actuó con desgana, 1 Paralipomenon xxi. 6. y xxvii. 24. (Menoquio)