Ezekiel 7:2
_Israel, or Judea, in all its parts. (Worthington) --- In five or six years' time all shall be destroyed._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Israel, or Judea, in all its parts. (Worthington) --- In five or six years' time all shall be destroyed._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Set, as accusers, to increase thy confusion._... [ Continue Reading ]
_One. A second shall not be necessary, Nahum i. 9. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Awaked. Justice seems to have slept. (Haydock) See ver. 10., and Jeremias i. 12._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Destruction, ( contritio.) St. Jerome reads "contraction," as also [in] ver. 10. Protestants, "the morning." (Haydock) --- Chaldean, "the reign." (Calmet) --- Hebrew tsephira, is variously rendered. (Haydock) --- Joy. Hebrew, "echo or cry" of people in the vintage._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Budded; figurative expressions, denoting a speedy vengeance. (Calmet) --- Chaldean, "the reign is open, the ruler has flourished, the wicked hath appeared." In this reign of Nabuchodonosor ye shall be chastised. (Haydock) --- Septuagint or rather Theodotion, from whom many things have bee supplied... [ Continue Reading ]
_Iniquity. What other fruit could be expected from wickedness? It draws on chastisement. --- Noise, or grandees. None will repent, and therefore none shall escape, from the highest to the lowest._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sold, as in the year of jubilee, Leviticus xxv. 25. (Calmet) --- Now there shall be no recovery. (Worthington) --- They shall be driven from the land. --- Although. By supplying the former negation, (Calmet) we may render "Nor," &c., (Haydock) which seems better. (Calmet) --- It may also mean, "tho... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER VII. _ Ready. He describes the vain attempts of the Jews to make resistance._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Doves, not daring to vent their complaints. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Water; urine, (St. Jerome) sweat, &c., the usual effects of fear._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heads. They cut their hair in times of penance and of mourning._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Iniquity. Riches have fostered their passions: they will not now procure food or liberty, Sophonias i. 18. (Calmet) --- The riches of the idols invited the enemy to plunder. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And. Protestants, "As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the," &c. The sacred ornaments of the temple, appointed by God, (Haydock) have been converted into idols, and shall be carried to Babylon, ver. 21. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Secret: the inward sanctuary, the holy of holies. (Challoner) --- God would guard it no longer. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shutting up. Hebrew, "chain," for imprisonment and captivity. (Challoner) --- Pronounce sentence upon all._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sanctuary; the temple of God, or of idols, chap. vi. 3._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Distress. When the enemy is before the city, they will see their error; but it will be too late. They shall not obtain peace, Jeremias xxxviii. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ancients. Priests shall afford no consolation, nor counsellors any advice. They shall be all confounded. (Calmet) --- During the captivity a few only were found to give instruction, Malachias ii. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]