_Priests. They were to furnish the vessel, and accompany the prophets, ver. 10. Septuagint, "and thou shalt take some of," &c. (Haydock) --- Words and actions together instruct most powerfully. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gate, which must have been to the south-east of Jerusalem, leading to the valley. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Charseith gate." (Haydock) --- Here the common people were buried, after the reign of Josias, who contaminated the place where the idol Moloc had been adored._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tingle, as if he had heard a sudden noise or clap of thunder. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Profaned. Literally, "rendered strange." (Haydock) --- I have no farther regard for it. --- Innocents: their own children, ver. 5., and chap. vii. 31._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mind. Perhaps the people stupidly thought thus to honour him; but God pointedly condemns such sacrifices._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Valley. Septuagint, "burial-place of slaughter," ver. 2. Here the Chaldeans slew many._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sons, to punish them for their cruel sacrifices. (St. Jerome) --- This was verified under Sedecias, Lamentations ii. 10., and iv. 10., and Ezechiel v. 10._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Again. The captives indeed returned, so that this must not be urged too much. (Calmet) --- Yet the Romans strictly fulfilled this prophecy, (St. Jerome; Sanctius) and the city was built in another place, and styled \'c6lia. (Haydock) --- God can perform what is impossible to man, chap. xviii. 3., a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Topheth. This sentence was not in St. Jerome's Hebrew copy, but in the Septuagint (Calmet) with some variations: (Haydock) "All the houses of the kings of Juda, like the place of Topheth," is added by the Septuagint. (St. Jerome) --- In Grabe they agree with the present Hebrew and Chaldean only ren... [ Continue Reading ]
_People. Many still resorted to the temple. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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