Proverbs 24:1
_Like. Be not allured by their prosperity to imitate them, Psalm xxxvi. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Like. Be not allured by their prosperity to imitate them, Psalm xxxvi. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wisdom and virtue, and not by injustice can the house be established._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Valiant, as well as a good economist, ver. 4. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Counsels. "Consult many what ought to be done, but only a few of the most faithful, or rather thyself alone, what thou art about to do." (Veget. iii. 9., and 27.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_High. Thus the fool excuses himself. But wisdom condescends to our weakness, if we be truly in earnest, Deuteronomy xxxii. 12. Mouth. To defend himself, or to give advice. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of a fool. In as much as he is wicked. Though he may have some pious thoughts, he attends not to them. (Haydock) --- He thinks how he may commit evil, and renders himself hateful. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "a wicked thought is the sin of folly." Septuagint, "the fool dieth in sins." --- Detractor. Hebre... [ Continue Reading ]
_Diminished. This is the sad consequences of too much dejection, Ephesians iv. 19. Despairing, they abandon themselves to impurities. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Deliver. The Jews often put people to death without any formal trial, pretending zeal, as they did St. Stephen, &c. Our Saviour rescued the adulteress from such a situation, as Daniel had done Susanna. Yet this text may regard poor debtors, Psalm lxxi. 4. (Calmet) --- Christian bishops used all the... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have. Hebrew, "behold, we know not this man." (Pagnin) (Haydock) --- He is a stranger. But all mankind are brethren, and have a charge to assist one another, even though they be enemies, Ecclesiasticus xvii. 12., and Exodus xxiii. 4. (Calmet) --- Keeper. Hebrew notser, "preserver." As thou hast r... [ Continue Reading ]
_Honey. Of wisdom, which is most delicious. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt. Hebrew, "yea, it is the last." (Montanus) --- "Then there shall be a reward." (Protestants) --- Thou shalt enjoy old age, or have posterity. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fall into smaller sins, (St. Gregory vi. in 2 Reg. xv. &c.) or into disgrace, as yippol (Haydock) rather intimates. (Vatable) (St. Augustine, City of God xi. 31.) --- Both significations agree with the context. See Job v. 27., and Matthew xviii. 21. (Calmet) --- He who is not subject to mortal sin,... [ Continue Reading ]
_From. To punish thee. (Calmet) --- Thus will thy thirst of vengeance be disappointed. (Haydock) --- The Hebrews believed that there was no evil, which was not caused by sin; and this was true in some sense. But still God often afflicts his servants, (ver. 16,) as the whole book of Job tends to prov... [ Continue Reading ]
_Contend. Or Hebrew, "associate." --- Like. Ver. 1., and Psalm xxxvi. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Come. Protestants, "no reward," (Haydock) prosperity, &c., as designated also by the lamp, ver. 14. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Detractors. Or those who speak ill of God or the king. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "that are given to change," (Haydock) and relapses._... [ Continue Reading ]
_These. Septuagint have an addition, and then our chap. xxx. to ver. 15., after which follows the remainder of this chap. and then the ten first verses of the 31st. (Haydock) --- Solomon here resumes the sententious style, chap. xxii. 17. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lips. And be deemed a friend. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_House, and support thy family. Before building, great deliberation is requisite, Luke xiv. 28. Those who attempt to instruct others, must first set good example._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cause, and necessity. Septuagint, "be not a false witness against thy fellow-citizen."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Work. Revenge is often reprobated, though the law allowed of retaliation, which the more virtuous did not insist upon._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man. Those who neglected their land were despised. (Calmet) --- The ancient Romans esteemed agriculture as a most laudible and profitable employment. (Cato, Rust. i.; Cicero, Off. i.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Which. Septuagint, "at last I repented: I looked forward to receive instruction."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Said I, is not in Hebrew, chap. vi. 10. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will slumber a while," to rest. Septuagint, "I will enfold my breast in my hands a little." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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