_Intercessions, as in the Protestant translation. If men's intercessions to God in favour of others, are no injury to Christ, as our mediator, how can it be any injury to Christ for the Angels and saints in heaven to pray or intercede to God for us? (Witham) --- St. Augustine writes thus on this ver... [ Continue Reading ]
_For kings, who were then heathens, this being in Nero's time. (Witham) --- Upon the happiness of the king generally depends that of his subjects. We pray for the emperors, says Tertullian, that God would grant them a long life, a secure throne, and a safe family, brave armies, a faithful council, a... [ Continue Reading ]
All men to be saved. They contradict this, and other places of the Scripture, as well as the tradition and doctrine of the Catholic Church, who teach that God willeth only the salvation of the predestinated, of the elect, and as they say, of the first-begotten only: and that he died only for them, a... [ Continue Reading ]
One mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus: who gave himself a redemption for all. Take all these words together, and we may easily understand in what sense the apostle calls our Saviour Christ, the one or only mediator; that is, he is the only mediator, who at the same time is our Redeemer;... [ Continue Reading ]
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] See St. Augustine (lib. de Spi. et Lit. tom. x. chap. 33. p. 118) Vult Deus omnes homines salvos fieri....non sic tamen, ut eis adimat Liberum Arbitruim, quo vel bene, vel male utentes, justissime judicentur. Quod cum fit, infideles quidem contra voluntatem Dei faciunt, cum ejus Evan... [ Continue Reading ]
How beautifully does St. Paul teach that modesty and chastity are the greatest ornaments of the female sex, not only in the sight of God and of Angels, but also of men, who although by their own neglect they have not always grace and courage sufficient to be virtuous themselves, cannot help admiring... [ Continue Reading ]
_In silence. See 1 Corinthians xiv. 34. See St. John Chrysostom.[3] (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] In silentio. St. John Chrysostom (_ Greek: log. th.) Greek: edidazen apax e gune, kai panta katestrepse._... [ Continue Reading ]
St. Paul only means in public. See note on ver. 11. of the next chapter. It would appear from this regulation of the apostle, as well as from the writings of the earliest fathers, that the practice and condemnation of women interfering at all in spiritual affairs, in not new. Tertullian says: We do... [ Continue Reading ]
_Adam was first formed....and was not seduced. That is, was not at least seduced first, as the woman. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_She shall be saved by bearing children, &c. and performing other duties of a wife, with a due submission to her husband, taking care to serve God, and bring up her children in the faith of Christ, in piety, &c. (Witham) --- This would perhaps be more properly rendered, from the Greek, by the bringi... [ Continue Reading ]