_Eyes of the soul. (Menochius) --- Volume. That is, a parchment, according to the form of the ancient books, which, from begin rolled up, were called volumes. (Challoner) --- Such are still used in the synagogues. They were usually written only on one side. (Calmet) --- Septuagint have read e at the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cubits, alluding to Judea, which was twice as long as it was broad. (Menochius) --- Many explain this vision and that of the woman, (ver. 7) of the Jews, (Calmet) after St. Jerome. (Haydock) --- But is seems rather to denote the Chaldeans, whose sentence had been long pronounced, and who were punis... [ Continue Reading ]
_In like. Protestants, "shall cut off as on that side standing to it." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thief. Nabuchodonosor is often so styled. (St. Jerome iv. 7.) This title comprises all the injuries done to man, as he that sweareth falsely refers to those where God's honour is concerned (Calmet) more immediately. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Vessel. Hebrew epha. (Calmet) --- Eye. This is what they fix their eye upon, or this is a resemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "resemblance." (Haydock) --- This is their picture. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "wickedness;" aunom. (Haydock) --- U is often mistaken f... [ Continue Reading ]
_Talent, or weight, (Haydock) called a stone, ver. 8. --- Vessel, like the idol Canopus._... [ Continue Reading ]
_He cast. Hebrew (Calmet) according to Theodotion, (St. Jerome) "She cast herself into the epha," &c. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Women. They often represent nations; and here the Jews understand the Medes and Greeks, who punished the Chaldeans. St. Jerome rather thinks that the Assyrians and Chaldeans are meant, carrying away Israel and Juda. Yet the former supposition seems preferable, as the woman in the vessel signified t... [ Continue Reading ]
_the land of Sennaar, where Babel or Babylon was built; (Genesis ix.) where note that Babylon, in holy writ, is often taken for the city of the devil, (that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked) as Jerusalem is taken for the city and people of God. (Challoner) --- Antichrist will begin his r... [ Continue Reading ]
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