_Mansions, at Daphca, (Numbers xxxiii. 12,) and perhaps at Aluz. (Calmet) --- Raphidim, the 11th station mentioned by Moses, which was afterwards called Massa, "temptation," because the people murmured in this place. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Chode, quarrelled and murmured. (Haydock) --- Tempt, requiring a miracle, ver. 7._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Before thee, ready to grant thy request at Horeb, a rock to the west of Sinai, and a figure of Jesus Christ, according to St. Paul; who says, (1 Corinthians x. 4,) that the spiritual rock followed the Hebrews. Some say a part of the real rock was carried in a chariot. (St. Chrysostom) Others, that... [ Continue Reading ]
_Temptation. Massa and Meriba "quarrel," as the Hebrew reads._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Amalec. The descendants of Esau by his grandson, living about the Red Sea._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Josue, who was before called Osee, or Ausem, was the son of Nun. From the victory obtained over the Amalecites, he was ever after called Josue, Jehosuah, or Jesus, "Saviour." He attached himself to Moses, and is styled his servant, as Patroclus and Merione are called servants of Achilles and of Ido... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hur, grandfather of Beseleel, (1 Paralipomenon ii. 19,) grandson of Esron by Caleb._... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when Moses lifted up his hands. Here Moses was a figure of Christ on the cross, by whose power and mediation we overcome our spiritual enemies. (Challoner) --- Hands, forming the sign of the cross, as the fathers observe, in the posture of a suppliant. St. Jerome says, the people fasted also ti... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of Josue, and of all who shall govern after him, that they may remember to execute my decree of extermination, against these cruel Amalecites, who have first dared to oppose the progress of my dejected people. (Haydock) --- Moses mentions, that they particularly attacked the feeble and stragglers,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Exaltation. He has given me the victory. He has supported my hands on high, holding the rod as a standard. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hand of the throne. The Lord hath lifted up his hand, and sworn on his throne, that war, &c., (Chaldean) or the hand of Amalec hath attacked the throne (Israel, the inheritance) of the Lord; therefore shall he pursue them for ever. The Septuagint have followed a different reading, "because with a s... [ Continue Reading ]
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