_Loaded. Theglathphalassar took away whole tribes, (2 Paralipomenon v. 26.) the year after this. Yet these people were the first enlightened with the rays of the gospel, (Matthew iv. 13.) though so much despised, John vii. 52. (Calmet) --- Here Christ preached first. But after his passion, few Jews... [ Continue Reading ]
_Risen. the kingdom of Juda hoped for redress, when they saw the people of Israel humbled, (Haydock) or rather after the defeat of Sennacherib. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And hast. Parkhurst says it should be, "(whom) thou hast not brought up (the Gentiles) with joy they," &c. (Symmachus) (Haydock) --- The numerous forces of the Assyrians could not save them from the angel. Under Ezechias the people increased. Was not his reign a figure of the Church persecuted and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Oppressor. Who levied taxes for Assyria, 4 Kings xviii. 7. Sennacherib made war, because Ezechias refused to pay them any longer, and his troops fell upon each other, (Calmet) as the Madianites had done, Judges vii. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fire. Being cut and useless. See Diss. on the defeat of Sennacherib. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Child. The Messias, whom the son of Isaias prefigured. --- Shoulder. Where the badges of royalty were worn. (Calmet) --- Christ bore his cross. (Tertullian, &c.) --- Wonderful. In his birth, &c. --- Counsellor. From whom all good advice proceeds. Grotius falsely translates, "the consulter of the str... [ Continue Reading ]
_Peace. Christ gives it, and propagates his Church, Hebrews xii. 2._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Word. Septuagint, "death." This also agrees with the Hebrew term, and with the context._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cedars. They speak in a proverbial way, that they will shortly repair the injuries done by the Assyrians depending on king Osee._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him. Israel. Salmanasar came to ruin the kingdom. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Still. God punishes the impenitent throughout eternity, ver. 12., and chap. x. 4. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him. Hebrew, "the branch and the rush." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "the great and the small."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Headlong. If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch, Matthew xv. 14. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Folly. Sin. They are all guilty. He will shew no compassion._... [ Continue Reading ]
_High. All shall witness the fall of Israel, (Calmet) like a forest on fire. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brother. Civil wars shall rage, 4 Kings xv. Josephus (Jewish Wars vii.) perhaps alluded to this passage, when he said, that an ancient prophecy announced ruin to the Jews, when they should turn their arms against each other. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER IX.... [ Continue Reading ]