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Isaiah
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Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— See also: Micah 1:3-4Revelation 20:11Exodus 19:18-19as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! See also: Psalms 99:1Jeremiah 33:9Daniel 6:25-27When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence. See also: Exodus 34:10Psalms 65:5-6Habakkuk 3:3For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him. See also: 1 Corinthians 2:9-10Psalms 31:19James 5:7You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved? See also: Acts 10:35Hebrews 4:16Philippians 3:13-15For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. See also: Romans 7:18Romans 7:24Ephesians 2:1-2There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. See also: Ezekiel 22:30Isaiah 50:2Hosea 7:14But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand. See also: Ephesians 2:10Psalms 119:73Jeremiah 18:2-6Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people. See also: Psalms 79:13Micah 7:18-20Psalms 74:1-2Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. See also: Isaiah 1:7Luke 21:24Psalms 79:1-7Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste. See also: Psalms 74:5-72 Kings 25:9Lamentations 1:10-11Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely? See also: Isaiah 42:14Psalms 74:10-11Psalms 74:18-19
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)8 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 64:1
Ver. 1. Presence, as at Sinai. Ex. xix. 16. Judg. v. 4. Judas continues to pray. C.
--- The faithful sigh for Christ's coming. H. --- All good people desired it most fervently. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 64:2
Ver. 2. They. Sept. "As wax melts before the fire, so also fire will burn the adversaries, and thy,"
&c. H. --- Burn. Sparks of fire seem to proceed from it.
↑ 2Isaiah 64:3
Ver. 3. Bear. Ex. xx. 18. Heb. "expect." Judas appeared victorious, when the nation was prostrate.
↑ 3Isaiah 64:4
Ver. 4. Thee. Never was deliverance more unexpected or miraculous. S. Paul quotes this passage, to shew the wisdom manifested in the incarnation. 1 Cor.
ii. 9. It is commonly applied to the glory of heaven.
↑ 4Isaiah 64:5
Ver. 5. Thee. The little band of Judas was sincerely attached to the Lord. 2 Mac.
i. 3. --- Sinned.
This excited thy anger. Yet thou wilt shew mercy. Sin is often put for punishment. C. --- Vau means also, "for, and, yet." Prot. "for we have sinned."
But we follow S. Jer. and the Vulg. W.
↑ 5Isaiah 64:6
Ver. 6. Unclean: leper. Grot. Lev. xiii. 45. --- Justices. That is, the works by which we pretended to make ourselves just. This is spoken particularly of the sacrifices, sacraments, and ceremonies of the Jews, after the death of Christ, and the promulgation of the new law. Ch. ---
The justice which is under the law is stated uncleanness, when compared with evangelical purity.
Phil. iii. 8. --- "If any one after the gospel...would observe the ceremonies of the law, let him hear the people confessing that all that justice is compared to a most filthy rag." S. Jer. --- The good works which are done by grace, and not by man alone, cannot be said to be of this description.
They constitute the internal glory of man, and God will one day crown these his gifts. Of ourselves indeed we can do nothing, and the works of the Mosaic law will not avail, as S. Paul inculcates; but those works, point out the saint, which are preformed by charity with faith in Christ. This justice is not imputed only, but real; and shews where true faith exists, according to S. James. Thus the apostles explain each other. H. --- Woman. Sept. "of one sitting down;" like Rachel. Gen. xxxi. 35. Sym. "lying-in." Aq. "of proofs." Grot. "like a plaster on a sore, which is thrown away." Such were Alcimus, &c. C. --- To practise (H.) the Jewish rites would now be sinful. M.
↑ 6Isaiah 64:7
Ver. 7. Of thee; to remove thy indignation, like Moses, Jeremias, (vii. 15.) &c.
See Ezec. xiii. 5.
↑ 7Isaiah 64:10
Ver. 10. Desolate, under Antiochus Epiphanes. 1 Mac. i. 31. and iv. 38. C.
↑ 10License: 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