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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. See also: John 12:41 Revelation 15:8 Daniel 7:9Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. See also: Revelation 4:8 Ezekiel 1:11 Psalms 104:4One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!” See also: Revelation 4:8-9 Psalms 72:19 Numbers 14:21The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. See also: Revelation 15:8 Exodus 40:34 2 Chronicles 5:13Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!” See also: Luke 5:8-9 James 3:6-10 Jeremiah 1:6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. See also: Revelation 8:3-5 Hebrews 9:22-26 Ezekiel 10:2He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.” See also: Jeremiah 1:9 1 John 1:7 Isaiah 43:25I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!” See also: Exodus 4:10-13 Acts 26:16-17 Ephesians 3:8He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ See also: Matthew 13:14-15 Luke 8:10 Mark 4:12Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.” See also: Matthew 13:15 Acts 28:27 Jeremiah 5:21Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste, See also: Isaiah 24:1-12 Isaiah 1:7 Psalms 90:13and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land. See also: Jeremiah 4:29 Deuteronomy 28:64 Jeremiah 52:28-30If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down, so the holy seed is its stump.” See also: Job 14:7-9 Romans 11:5-6 Genesis 22:18

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 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

Isaiah 6:1

Ver. 1. Died. Either a natural (C.) or a civil death, by means of the leprosy. Chal.

Tostat. 7. ---

This and the former chapters relate to the commencement of Joathan's reign, whether before or after the death of Ozias. C. --- Many think that this was the first prediction of Isaias. Orig. S.

Jer. ad Dam. --- I saw. By a prophetic vision, as if I had been present at the dedication of the temple. 3 K. viii. 10. C. --- Lord. Not the Father, as some have asserted, but the Son. Jo. xii. 40.

S. Jer. ad Dam. C. --- Neither Moses nor any other saw the substance of God; but only a shadow.

Yet Manasses hence took a pretext to have Isaias slain. Orig. S. Jer. Trad.

Paral. W.

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Isaiah 6:2

Ver. 2. The two Seraphims "burning." They are supposed to constitute the highest order of angels. Num. xxi. 6. --- His. God's or their own face. Heb. and Sept. are ambiguous. Out of respect, (C.) they look not at the divine majesty.

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Isaiah 6:3

Ver. 3. Glory. By no means of the Incarnation. The unity and Trinity are insinuated. S. Jer. S.

Greg. Mor. xxix. 16.

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Isaiah 6:4

Ver. 4. Of him. Sept. "them," (H.) the Seraphim signifying that the veil was removed by the death of Christ, (Theod.) or that the people should be led into captivity, as a Jew explained it to S.

Jerom.

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Isaiah 6:5

Ver. 5. Peace. It is proper for sinners to do so. Eccli. xv. 9. The prophet was grieved that he was unworthy to join in the acclamation of the Seraphim, and had reason to fear death. Gen. xvi.

13. Ex. xxxiii. 20. He finds himself less able to speak than before, like Moses.

Ex. iv. 10. and vi.

12.

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Isaiah 6:6

Ver. 6. Coal. "Carbuncle," (Sept.) the word of God, (S. Basil) spirit of prophecy, (S. Jer. 142. ad Dam.) &c.

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Isaiah 6:7

Ver. 7. Sin. Impediment in speech. All defects were attributed to some sin, (Jo.

ix. 2.) as Job's friends maintained.

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Isaiah 6:8

Ver. 8. For us. Hence arises a proof of the plurality of persons. C. --- Send me.

Thus Isaias was an evangelical and apostolical prophet. S. Jer. W.

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Isaiah 6:10

Ver. 10. Blind. The prophets are said to do what they denounce. S. Tho. 1. q.

xxiv. 3. Sanct. ---

Sept. "heavy or gross is the heart," &c. The authors of the New Testament quote it thus less harshly. --- Them. Is God unwilling to heal? Why then does he send his prophet? C. --- He intimates that all the graces offered would be rendered useless by the hardened Jews. S. Isid.

Pelus. 2. ep. 270. --- Heb. may be, "surely they will not see," &c. C.

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Isaiah 6:11

Ver. 11. Desolate. By means of Nabuchodonosor, (S. Chrys.) and the Romans, (Eus. &c.) or even till the end of the world, their obstinacy will continue.

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Isaiah 6:12

Ver. 12. Earth. After the captivity, the people shall be more docile. But this was more fully verified by the preaching of the gospel.

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Isaiah 6:13

Ver. 13. Tithing. The land shall produce its fruits, and people shall bring their tithes. Ezec. xx.

40. There shall be some left; (c. i. 9. and iv. 3. C.) though only a tenth part will embrace Christianity. S. Bas. --- Made. Sept. "ravaged." They shall be exposed to many persecutions under Epiphanes, and few shall escape the arms of the Romans, (C.) those particularly (H.) who shall be a holy seed. C. --- The apostles were of Jewish extraction, (H.) and spread the gospel throughout the world. M.

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License: 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

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