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Isaiah
63
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Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” See also: Revelation 19:13Isaiah 34:5-6Psalms 137:7Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? See also: Revelation 19:13Revelation 19:15“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing. See also: Revelation 19:13-15Revelation 14:19-20Micah 7:10For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. See also: Isaiah 34:8Isaiah 61:2Jeremiah 51:6I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me. See also: Psalms 44:3Isaiah 40:10Hosea 1:7I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.” See also: Revelation 14:10Isaiah 49:26Revelation 16:19I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. See also: Ephesians 2:4Psalms 86:5Psalms 86:15For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior. See also: Genesis 17:7Exodus 6:7Isaiah 12:2In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. See also: Exodus 33:14Exodus 23:20-21Malachi 3:1But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them. See also: Acts 7:51Ephesians 4:30Psalms 78:56Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?” See also: Numbers 11:17Exodus 14:22Numbers 11:25Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? See also: Exodus 15:16Joshua 3:16Psalms 78:13Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble? See also: Jeremiah 31:9Psalms 106:9Habakkuk 3:15As the livestock that go down into the valley, the LORD’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name. See also: Joshua 23:1Isaiah 63:12Hebrews 4:8-11Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. See also: Deuteronomy 26:15Jeremiah 31:20Psalms 123:1For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, LORD, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. See also: Isaiah 64:8Malachi 2:10Deuteronomy 32:6O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. See also: Isaiah 6:10Joshua 11:20Ezekiel 14:7-9Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. See also: Psalms 74:3-7Exodus 19:4-61 Peter 2:9We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name. See also: Romans 9:4Psalms 79:6Acts 14:16
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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
Isaiah 63:1
Ver. 1. Edom. Edom and Bosra (a strong city of Edom) are here taken in a mystical sense for the enemies of Christ and his Church. Ch. --- S. Jerom with reason finds it difficult to explain it of Christ, as it regards the Machabees.
Houbigant. --- The first six verses are applied to our Saviour's ascension, which excites the admiration of angels. Ps. xxiii. 7. Judas, the Machabee, the glorious figure of Christ, is introduced speaking in this and the following chapter. He conquered Idumea, (1 Mac. v. 3. and 2 Mac. x. 10.) and fought to save the people. 1 Mac. ix. 21.
C. --- The highest order of angels asks this question, admiring the beauty of Christ, though imbrued in blood after his victory. S. Dionys. Hierar. vii. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 63:3
Ver. 3. Press. Christ suffered, (S. Cyr.) and punished his enemies, Apocalypse xiv. 19. Judas received God's sword from Jeremias, (2 Mac. xv. 15.) and liberated his people.
↑ 3Isaiah 63:5
Ver. 5. Me. I depended on the goodness of my cause, and on God's aid. C. lix.
15. C.
↑ 5Isaiah 63:6
Ver. 6. Drunk with the wine of my fury. Ps. lxxiv. 9. Ezec. xxiii. 31. H.
↑ 6Isaiah 63:7
Ver. 7. I, Isaias; or rather the hero mentions what induced him to rise up. 1 Mac.
xvi. 10. C. ---
The Jews confess God's mercies. S. Jer.
↑ 7Isaiah 63:8
Ver. 8. Deny, or prove degenerate. C. --- God approves the conduct of the Machabees. H.
↑ 8Isaiah 63:9
Ver. 9. Presence, in high authority. Ex. xxxiii. 20. C. --- The angel guardian of the Church.
Particular guardians also see God's face. Mat. xviii. W.
↑ 9Isaiah 63:10
Ver. 10. One; Moses. Num. xiv. 29. and xx. 3, 12.
↑ 10Isaiah 63:11
Ver. 11. Flock. Ps. lxxvi. 21. --- One. Moses inspired by God. C.
↑ 11Isaiah 63:13
Ver. 13. Not, the road was so plain. Wisd. xix. 7. H.
↑ 13Isaiah 63:15
Ver. 15. Back. This is spoken by the prophet in the person of the Jews, at the time when for their sins they were given up to their enemies. Ch. --- Judas uses the same language at Maspha. 1
Mac. iii. 50. C.
↑ 15Isaiah 63:16
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 16. Abraham, &c. That is, Abraham will not now acknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou, O Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and no other can be called our parent in comparison with thee.
Ch. --- Abraham is not able to save us. C. --- The patriarchs may justly disregard us, as degenerate children; yet we hope in God's mercies. Thus S.
Jerom, &c. explain the passage, which does not favour the errors of Vigilantius and of Luther, who maintain that the saints departed do not know what passes in this world. S. Aug. (Cura xv.) shews the contrary, from the example of Lazarus, Luke xvi. They know each other, though they had not lived together, (S. Greg. Dial. iv. 33.) and beheld in the light of God what regards their clients.
S. Aug. de Civ. Dei. xxii. 29. We cannot decide how the martyrs do help those whom it is certain they assist. S. Aug. cura xvi. c. Faust. xx. 21. S. Jer. c. Vigil.
S. Greg. 3 ep. 30. and 7
ep. 126. &c. W.
↑ 16Isaiah 63:17
Ver. 17. Hardened, &c. The meaning is, that God, in punishment of their great and manifold crimes, and their long abuse of his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from them, and so given them up to error and hardness of heart. Ch. --- They had abused his patience, to sin the more. Theodoret ---
The Jews are accustomed to attribute all to God, though they agree with us in reality God might prevent any sin. C. --- But he chooses to leave man to the free exercise of his liberty. He hardens (H.) "not by infusing malice, but by not shewing mercy; and those to whom he shews it not, are undeserving." S. Aug.
ep. ad Sixt. cxciv. 14. --- God is never the author of error. Man takes occasion from his indulgence to become obdurate. S. Jer. W.
↑ 17Isaiah 63:18
Ver. 18. Nothing; holding them in the greatest contempt. Epiphanes though he should make them easily change their religion. His persecution lasted only three years and a half. ---
Sanctuary. 1 Mac. i. 23. 49. 57. and iii. 45.
↑ 18Isaiah 63:19
Ver. 19. Name. We seem to have no distinction, temple, &c. C. --- Prot. "We are thine. Thou never bearest rule over them. They were," &c. H.
↑ 19License: 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