Bible Commentaries

Genesis 20:16 — Tu hermano, como has acordado llamar a tu marido. &mdash Una cubierta, o velo, para mostrar que estás casado y evitar que nadie más te lleve. Sería tan rico, que todos pudieran conocer su calidad. San Pablo (1 Corintios xi. 5, 15.) ordena que las mujeres se cubran. (Calmet)

Exodus 26:36 — Colgado, o velo, suspendido sobre cinco pilares, ante el santuario. (Haydock) &mdash- Era el otro velo, que se rasgó con la muerte de Cristo. Baronio observa que los templos cristianos se construyeron antiguamente a imitación del tabernáculo judío. Fue una figura de la iglesia católica, 1 Timoteo iii. 15.

Exodus 27:21 — Aaron. Aquí Dios declara que los hijos de Aarón son elegidos por él para realizar este oficio. No fueron sacerdotes ungidos hasta el cap. xxix. (Haydock) &mdash- Ligero. Por eso Dios nos exhorta a dejar que nuestras buenas obras brillen siempre ante los hombres. (Ven. Bede, Taber. Iii. 1.)

Exodus 4:16 — A Dios. En hebreo, "serás para él en lugar de Dios". Él te oirá y te obedecerá, explicando al pueblo las instrucciones que le des. Yo te he establecido el dios de Faraón, y Aarón será tu profeta, cap. vii. 1. (Calmet) &mdash- Me dirigiré inmediatamente a ti. (Tirino)

Psalms 149:9 — Written. In God’s decrees. (Worthington) (Job xxxi. 35., and Daniel vii. 10.) (Calmet) --- This judicial power is part of the glory of the saints. (Worthington) (1 Corinthians vi. 2., and Wisdom iii. 7.) (Haydock) --- All shall judge the wicked who have imitated the disinterestedness of the apostles. (Calmet)

Proverbs 11:31 — Receive. Punishment, for almost inevitable faults, or be treated according to his deserts. Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, "if the just be hardly saved, where shall the impious and the sinner appear?" (1 Peter iv. 18.) (Calmet) --- Afflictions attend the just in this life. Shall the wicked escape? (Menochius)

Song of Solomon 4:12 — Up. She is perfectly chaste, Proverbs v. 14. The Church excludes from her society all unbelievers and schismatics. The wicked serve to exercise the virtuous. Her pastors explain the Scriptures, the fountains of saving knowledge. (Calmet) --- Christ is also a fountain, Zacharias xiii. 1., and John vii. 37. (Menochius)

Jeremiah 35:19 — Before me, in an honourable situation (1 Paralipomenon ii. 55.) about the temple. It was not requisite that they should be Levites. (Calmet) --- For ever. Their reward shall be eternal bliss. (Haydock) --- This they sought for, as they were strangers of Madian in the country, ver. 7. (Menochius)

Ezekiel 47:13 — Double portion. Literally, "cord." (Haydock) --- His two sons would each have a share, as Levi was better provided for. (Worthington) --- He had no portion of the land assigned to him by Josue, but here one part is appointed (Calmet) for the sacred ministers and the prince, chap. xlv. 1.

Ezekiel 9:6 — Sanctuary. Aquila, "temple," or people (Calmet) consecrated to my service, (Septuagint; Tirinus) particularly (Calmet) the twenty-five idolaters, the ancients and women, (Calmet) chap. viii. 16. --- Judgment beginneth at the house of God, (1 Peter iv. 17.) and those (Haydock) who abuse holy things are justly cut off. (Worthington)

Amos 8:3 — Temple, when God comes like a mighty warrior; or when the profane temples shall be pillaged, chap. ix. 1. Hebrew also, "the canticles of the temple or palace shall be changed into lamentations." --- Place. Hebrew, "a multitude of dead bodies shall be cast in every place. Keep silence." (Calmet)

Zechariah 9:15 — Sling. At first the Machabees had no other weapon, 1 Machabees iv. 6. The sling was much used, Judges xx. 16. --- Wine. They will shed blood of the enemy so abundantly, and be all besmeared with it. They would never drink it, like the pagans, Leviticus xvii. 10. (Calmet)

Matthew 27:43 — If he will have him: literally, if he will him. In the style of the Scriptures, to will, is to love, or be pleased with any one; and so it is applied, Psalm xxi. 9, from whence these words are taken. See also 1 Kings xviii. 22. (Witham)

Mark 12:44 — But she, of her want,[2] or indigence, out of what she wanted to subsist by, as appeareth by the Greek. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] De penuria sua, Greek: ek tes ustereseos. See the same Greek word, 1 Corinthians xvi. 17; 2 Corinthians ix. 12, and Chap. xi. 9. &c. ====================

John 3:34 — Doth not give the Spirit by measure. Christ, even as man, has a plenitude of graces. See chapt. i. ver. 14. And all things, all creatures, both in heaven and earth, are given into his hands, and made subject to him, as man. See 1 Corinthians xv. 26. (Witham)

1 Peter 3:15 — Always ready to satisfy,[1] &c. St. Peter would have every Christian, according to his circumstances and capacity, ready to give general reasons of his faith and hope of salvation, both to infidels and heretics that refuse to believe. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Ad satisfactionem, Greek: pros apologian, ad defensionem.

Jude 1:20-21 — Building yourselves. That is, raising by your actions a spiritual building, founded 1. upon faith; 2. on the love of God; 3. upon hope, whilst you are awaiting for the mercies of God, and the reward of eternal life; 4. joined with the great duty of prayer. (Witham)

Tobit 6:6 — Flesh. St. Paul uses the like expression, (1 Corinthians xv.) as well as Pliny, [Natural History?] ix. 15. (Worthington) --- Took. Greek and Fagius, (Calmet) "eat, and both went on till they came near to Ecbatana." (Haydock) --- From Ninive to Rages would be 10 or 12 days’ journey. (Calmet)

Judith 15:13 — Thirty. Greek, "And the people plundered the camp thirty (Syriac; three) days." The camp of the Assyrians was in various places, and the people waited a month before they began to divide the spoils among all, according to their laws, Numbers xxxi. 27., and 1 Kings xxx. 24. (Calmet)

Letter of Jeremiah 9:29 — That was. Syriac, "son of his nurse," appointed regent. --- Philometor Lysias asserted his title to the regency, and had the young king, so that Philip applied to the Egyptians to help in the execution of the last will of the deceased. (Calmet) --- Read 1 Machabees vi. 17. (Worthington)