Ezekiel 23:3
_Fornication. That is, idolatry. (Challoner) --- Down. Virgins used the stomacher, or (Haydock) fascia pectoralis, Isaias iii. 24. This chapter resembles the 16th. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fornication. That is, idolatry. (Challoner) --- Down. Virgins used the stomacher, or (Haydock) fascia pectoralis, Isaias iii. 24. This chapter resembles the 16th. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Oolla and Ooliba. God calls the kingdom of Israel Oolla, which signifies their own habitation, because they separated themselves from his temple; and the kingdom of Juda Ooliba, which signifies his habitation in her, because of his temple among them in Jerusalem. (Challoner) --- The ten tribes firs... [ Continue Reading ]
_Assyrians. That is, the idols of the Assyrians: for all that is said in this chapter of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is to be understood in a spiritual sense of their disloyalty to the Lord, by worshipping strange gods. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- The Assyrians taught the worship of Baal,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Blue, or purple. This was reserved for the principal nobility._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Egypt. They always retained an affection for those idols, the calf, Adonis, &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Disgrace: satisfying their passions, ver. 29. (Calmet) --- Women. Having once lost all sense of decorum, they became more abandoned. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_This; not chastisement, but dissolution._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Colours. She was enamoured at the account or picture of these people, without ever having seen them._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Messengers. Achaz invited the Assyrians, and imitated their altars, &c., 4 Kings xvi. 2., &c. (Calmet) --- The Chaldeans afterwards possessed the country. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Love. Literally, "of breasts," as Hebrew also signifies. Here it denotes the temples. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Remembering, or "causing to be remembered" by God, who seemed to have forgotten those ancient scenes of wickedness, chap. xxi. 24._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Asses. He means the Egyptians, (chap. xvi. 26.) in whom the kings of Juda trusted. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_About. The Philistines, Ammonites, &c., shall join the Chaldeans, (Haydock) and Egypt shall desert the Jews in their greatest need. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nobles. Protestants, "Pekod, and Shoah, and Roa:" (Haydock) which Junius takes to be the three great divisions of the empire. Others suppose they denote the dignities, though they occur not in Daniel. --- Captains. Hebrew, "Phachat, and Saganim, (ver. 6, 12.) and Schalischim:" officers mentioned [i... [ Continue Reading ]
_Judgments, at Reblatha, 4 Kings xxv. 6._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jealousy, the most violent of passions. (Calmet) --- So the Chaldeans are styled, as Assur is the rod, Isaias x. 5. (Worthington) --- Ears, the punishment of adulteresses: both king and priests suffer. (St. Jerome) --- Thus the captives were probably treated. (Calmet) See Seneca, Ira. iii. 20. ---... [ Continue Reading ]
_Glory; vanity, or of the temple, chap. xvi. 17., and Osee ii. 4._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXIII.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cup. Thou shalt be punished like Samaria, dreadfully, 4 Kings xvii. 4. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fragments, as drunkards sometimes bite (Haydock) the cup in their rage. --- Rend. What had been the occasion of thy fall: (Calmet) pectori planxi. (Ovid, ep. 5.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Deeds. He is thus admonished to condemn them; (chap. xx. 4.) as times and places tended to aggravate their crimes, ver. 39. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Paint, with antimony. (Septuagint) See 4 Kings ix. 3._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bed: it seems at table, Amos ii. 8., and Tobias ii. 3. --- Ointment; using them for thyself, or presenting them to idols, Exodus xxx. 23, 33. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And that. Protestants, "Sabeans (marginal note and Septuagint, drunkards) from," &c. Any were admitted (Haydock) to the priesthood and to her favours, even the most rustic and deformed, 3 Kings xii. 32._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Just, compared with the Jews, whom they shall chastise. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stones, like adulteresses, chap. xvi. 38., and Leviticus xx. 10. (Haydock) --- Let the walls be demolished. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]