_Back. The people were just returned when the nations around fell upon them, and were miraculously defeated. (Theodoret) --- We shall follow the system respecting God, given [in] Ezechiel xxxviii. (Calmet) --- Most people, with St. Jerome, suppose that the general judgment is described, though some... [ Continue Reading ]
_Josaphat, "the judgment of the Lord," (Haydock) marks the place where the Judge will sit, on the east of Jerusalem, between the temple and Olivet, whence our Lord ascended into heaven. (Worthington) --- There also had been seized and treated contumeliously. (Haydock) --- But many of the Fathers ass... [ Continue Reading ]
_Boy, to gratify their brutal passions; (Lamentations v.) or, they have exchanged such for harlots, (Calmet) and paid the latter with captive boys. (Septuagint) (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Me. These cities and nations had rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews, Ezechiel xxv. (Calmet) --- Coast. Septuagint, "Galilee of strangers." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Temples, or palaces. The Chaldeans had done so, and perhaps had sold some to others._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Greeks: the Ionians carried on such a traffic, Ezechiel xxvii. 13. Tyre and the Philistines were ready to sell, Ezechiel xxvi. 2., and xxv. 15._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Them, particularly under Hystaspes and Artaxerxes._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sabeans; probably at the bottom of Arabia. (Calmet) --- Thirty thousand Tyreans were sold by Alexander. (Arrian ii.) --- The Jews would not fail to purchase. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prepare. Literally, "sanctify." (Haydock) --- God sends Cambyses to chastise Egypt. His turn will then come._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Down. Many perished in Egypt, the rest in Judea, ver. 2._ _ Valley, at Jezrahel, the valley of destruction, ver. 14._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Harvest, the time of vengeance, Matthew xiii. 30., and Apocalypse xiv. 15. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nations. Hebrew hamonim, "multitudes." (Haydock) --- This alludes to the place Amona, where God was buried, Ezechiel xxx. 15, 18. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "sounds have been heard in the vale of justice," where sentence has been pronounced and executed. (Haydock) --- The repetition of peoples and de... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shining. All shall be amazed at the fall of Cambyses, chap. ii. 30., and Ezechiel xxviii. 30. A storm shall overwhelm his army. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Roar, in thunder, Jeremias xxv. 30., and Amos i. 2. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_No more, for a long time. Antiochus and the Romans again profaned the temple. But the Church of Christ is always holy._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sweetness; oil and honey. (Calmet) --- Fountain, &c., viz., the fountain of grace in the Church militant, and of glory in the Church triumphant; which shall water the torrent or valley of thorns, that is, the souls that before, like barren ground, brought forth nothing but thorns, or that were affl... [ Continue Reading ]
_Desolation. Cambyses laid it waste for three years, as Ochus did afterwards. --- Edom. Judas and Hican punished them for their former barbarity, Psalm cxxxvi. 7., and 2 Machabees x. 16., and Ezechiel xxv. 12. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Judea and Jerusalem. That is, the spiritual Jerusalem, viz., the Church of Christ. (Challoner) --- Judea was unmolested for a considerable time._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Which must be supplied in Hebrew. The Idumeans had been spared for a long time. But they shall not escape. (Chaldean, &c.) (Calmet) --- The rites of the law could not purify, as the sacraments of Christ do. (St. Jerome) --- God will cleanse his people, and will chastise the Ammonites, &c., who had... [ Continue Reading ]
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