_Reproach. True friendship resembles charity, and bears all things, 1 Corinthians xiii. 4. Hebrew now reads Thave, "desire;" instead of Thuane, occasion, or "pretext," which must have been in the copies of the Septuagint and Vulgate. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "through desire, a man having separated... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heart. Conformable to his passions. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "unless to lay open his heart." He wishes to appear wise, and to justify his wicked designs. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Contemneth both God and man, Luke xviii. 4. Hebrew, "is contemned" in his turn. (Calmet) --- He is like a man abandoned by the physician. (Op. Imp. in Matt. Hom. 40.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man, who is just and wise. His advice deserves attention, chap. xx. 5._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Quarrels. Hebrew, "blows." Septuagint, "death;" (ver. 7.) which are the usual consequences of quarrels._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tongued. Hebrew, "caluminator." He pretends to wish well to those of whom he speaks, or else to guard the company against deceit. (Calmet) --- "If the devil be upon the detractor's tongue, he is in the ears of those who pay attention to him." (St. Francis de Sales) --- Fear, &c., is in the Septuagi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brother. Like him, as both end in poverty, chap. x. 4., and xii. 11._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Name. Essence, or protection of God. The rich depends on his own wealth._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heareth the end of the question, chap. i. 5._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Infirmity of the flesh, Matthew xxvi. 41. --- That is. Theodotion, "is wounded, who shall support?"_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Princes. He easily finds access by showing submission. (Calmet) Placatur donis Jupiter ipse suis. (Ovid)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him. To see that he act with sincerity._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lot. Chap. xvi. 33. Septuagint, "silence." (Calmet) --- But Grabe substitutes "lot." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Judgments of many are more deserving of credit. Hebrew, "a brother offended, is like a strong place, and their quarrels," &c. The are not easily reconciled. Civil wars are most terrible. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Satisfied. Those who are guarded in their words get employment. (Haydock) (Chap. xii. 14.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Love it, and speak well or ill, shall receive accordingly, Matthew xii. 37._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Good wife. Good is not in Hebrew, but should be understood, as it is expressed in the Complutensian (Calmet) and Alexandrian Septuagint. (Haydock) --- He that, &c., occurs not in Hebrew, Sixtus V, &c. But it is found in Septuagint and Arabic. The Syriac omits the last sentence. --- Wicked. St. Augu... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brother. The ties of nature are not so strong as those of friendship. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "a man that hath friends must shew himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." (Protestants) (Haydock) --- Ut ameris ama. (Martial)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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