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The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. See also: Genesis 14:13Genesis 48:3Genesis 13:18He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, See also: Hebrews 13:2Genesis 18:22Genesis 19:1and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant. Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. See also: Genesis 19:2Genesis 43:24Genesis 24:32I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.” See also: Psalms 104:15Judges 6:18Judges 13:15Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.” See also: Galatians 5:13Matthew 13:33Romans 12:13Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. See also: Judges 13:15-16Luke 15:23Luke 15:30He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate. See also: Genesis 19:3Acts 10:41Nehemiah 12:44They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.” See also: Titus 2:5Genesis 24:67Genesis 4:9He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. See also: Genesis 21:2Genesis 17:21Romans 9:8-9Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. See also: Genesis 17:17Hebrews 11:11-12Luke 1:36Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” See also: Genesis 17:171 Peter 3:6Luke 1:18-20The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’ See also: John 2:25Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son.” See also: Luke 1:37Matthew 19:26Mark 10:27Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.” See also: Proverbs 28:131 John 1:8Psalms 44:21The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. See also: Acts 21:53 John 1:6Acts 15:3The LORD said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do, See also: Psalms 25:14Amos 3:7John 15:15since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? See also: Galatians 3:8Genesis 26:4Galatians 3:14For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.” See also: 1 Timothy 3:4-5Deuteronomy 6:6-7Deuteronomy 4:9-10The LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, See also: Genesis 19:13Ezekiel 16:49-50Isaiah 3:9I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.” See also: Exodus 3:8Genesis 11:5Joshua 22:22The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. See also: Genesis 19:1Acts 7:55Ezekiel 22:30Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? See also: Numbers 16:222 Samuel 24:17Genesis 20:4What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? See also: Isaiah 1:9Jeremiah 5:1Matthew 7:13-14May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?” See also: Job 8:20Isaiah 3:10-11Job 8:3The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.” See also: Jeremiah 5:1Matthew 24:22Ezekiel 22:30Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes. See also: Isaiah 6:5Genesis 3:19Luke 5:8What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” See also: Numbers 14:17-19Genesis 18:29Job 23:3-4He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.” See also: Hebrews 4:16Ephesians 6:18He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” See also: Psalms 10:17Job 40:4Isaiah 55:8-9He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.” See also: Luke 11:8Luke 18:1Matthew 7:11He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.” See also: James 5:15-17Judges 6:39Matthew 7:7The LORD went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. See also: Genesis 32:26Genesis 18:22Genesis 18:16
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 18:1
Ver. 1. Sitting, &c. that he might lose no opportunity of exercising hospitality.
↑ 1Genesis 18:2
Ver. 2. Men in outward appearance, but angels indeed. Heb.
xii . 2. S. Aug. de C. D. xvi. c. 29. Some have supposed, that one of them was the Son of God, whom Abraham adored, and who bears throughout the chief authority. Tres vidit et unum adoravit. He saw three and adored one, as we read in the Church office. In the former supposition, which is generally adopted, this adoration was only a civil ceremony, if Abraham considered them as mere men; or it might be mixed with a degree of religious, though inferior veneration, if he imagined they were angels; or in fine, he adored God in his representatives. H.
↑ 2Genesis 18:4
Ver. 4. Wash ye, or let your feet be washed by me, or by my servants, laventur. M.
↑ 4Genesis 18:5
Ver. 5. Therefore, Providence has directed you hither. Abraham promises but little, and gives much, in the true spirit of generous hospitality. C.
↑ 5Genesis 18:6
Ver. 6. Measures, or one epha; that is, three pecks and three pints, English corn measure. --- Flour, of the finest quality, similæ. --- Hearth, as being soonest ready.
↑ 6Genesis 18:7
Ver. 7. Himself. These rich and truly noble people, do not esteem it beneath themto wait on strangers. They provide abundance, but no dainties. H.
↑ 7Genesis 18:9
Ver. 9. Eaten apparently. Tob. xii. 19. or perhaps they consumed the food, as fire may be said to eat. S. Justin's Dial.
↑ 9Genesis 18:10
Ver. 10. Time, or season of the year ensuing, if I be alive; which he says after the manner of men, as he had assumed also the human form. H.
↑ 10Genesis 18:12
Ver. 12. Laughed, as if the promise were incredible. --- My lord, or husband, which title of respect, S. Peter i. C. iii. 6, commends. D.
↑ 12Genesis 18:13
Ver. 13. Indeed. This was the import of Sara's words. By thus revealing what was secretly done in the tent, he shewed himself to be more than man.
↑ 13Genesis 18:14
Ver. 14. Hard. So Gabriel says to the blessed Virgin: there is nothing impossible to God.
↑ 14Genesis 18:15
Ver. 15. Afraid; which does not entirely clear her of sin: for though she might innocently laugh, if she thought the person who spoke was only a man, yet she ought not to have told an untruth; and if she reflected, that he had disclosed what she supposed no one knew, and thereby manifested his superiority over man, her denial was still more inexcusable. But she was taken, as it were, by surprise; and therefore the Lord reproves her very gently. H.
↑ 15Genesis 18:21
Ver. 21. I will go down, &c. The Lord here accommodates his discourse to the way of speaking and acting amongst men: for he knoweth all things, and needeth not to go any where for information. --- Note here, that two of the three angels went away immediately for Sodom; whilst the third, who represented the Lord, remained with Abraham.
↑ 21Genesis 18:25
Ver. 25. With the wicked. God frequently suffers the just to be here the most afflicted; designing to reward them abundantly hereafter. But this was not so common in the days of Abraham and Job. C.
↑ 25Genesis 18:32
Ver. 32. Ten. Abraham's chief solicitude was for Lot; though, out of modesty, he does not mention him; trusting, however, in the divine goodness the he would be preserved, unless he had forfeited his justice, he proceeds no farther. God thus challenges Jerusalem to produce one virtuous man, and the city shall be saved for his sake. Jer. v. 1. H.
↑ 32License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses