_Barren Jews in captivity, or Church of the Gentiles, to which alone the expressions can be applied. (Calmet) --- The Gentiles were before unfruitful, as the Jews will be till towards the latter times. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stakes, to receive so great a family. All the Israelites did not return, and it does not appear that many embraced their religion, as they have done that of Christ._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Left. To the north and south. Jerusalem increased. But what was it compared with the Christians establishment!_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Widowhood. Thy former excesses shall be forgotten. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thee. Hebrew, " Bohalaic (Haydock) shall be your Baalim," or husband, who was styled Lord, 1 Peter iii. 6. Perhaps he may allude to the two wives, the synagogues and the Church, or to the idols, which should be adored no more._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Youth. This enhances her fault. God is pleased to overlook it, in the captives (chap. l. 1.) and Gentiles._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Earth. Giving him the rainbow for a sign. My covenant with the Church is equally irrevocable: she is founded on a rock, Matthew xvi. 18. (Calmet) --- Christ will no more abandon her than he will drown the world. Some mountains shall be moved out of their place, but she shall not. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sapphires. Hebrew, "antimony," a mineral shining like silver, 4 Kings ix. 30._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER LIV. _ Bulwarks. Hebrew, windows of crystal; (Ezechiel xxvii. 1[].; Calmet) Protestants, "of agate." (Haydock) --- All this is allegorical, like the redemption of the new Jerusalem, Apocalypse. xxi._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lord, Christ, Jeremias xxxi. 33., and John vi. 45._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thee. The Cutheans rendered the Jews suspected, 1 Esdras iv. 2., and vi. 1_... [ Continue Reading ]
_To thee, in the inheritance. This was verified in the Church. We have no accout of many being converted before._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Destroy. I can give peace or war. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "but I have created thee not for utter destruction." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]