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When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; See also: Genesis 43:32-34Jude 1:12put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite. See also: Philippians 3:19Matthew 18:8-91 Corinthians 9:27Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. See also: Proverbs 23:6Luke 21:34Psalms 141:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. See also: Hebrews 13:5Proverbs 28:20Matthew 6:19Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. See also: Proverbs 27:241 John 2:16Matthew 6:19Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies, See also: Proverbs 23:3Psalms 141:4Daniel 1:8-10for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. See also: Psalms 12:2Psalms 55:21Judges 16:15You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. See also: Proverbs 9:7-8Matthew 7:6Proverbs 26:4-5Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, See also: Zechariah 7:10Proverbs 22:28Jeremiah 22:3for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you. See also: Proverbs 22:23Job 19:25Deuteronomy 27:19Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. See also: Proverbs 5:1-2Proverbs 2:2-6Proverbs 23:19Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. See also: Proverbs 13:24Proverbs 19:18Proverbs 29:15Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol. See also: 1 Corinthians 11:321 Corinthians 5:5Proverbs 22:15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine. See also: Proverbs 23:24-252 John 1:43 John 1:3-4Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. See also: Proverbs 8:6Ephesians 5:4Colossians 4:4Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear the LORD all day long. See also: Proverbs 28:142 Corinthians 7:1Proverbs 15:16Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off. See also: Hebrews 10:35Jeremiah 29:11Psalms 9:18Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! See also: Proverbs 23:26Proverbs 23:12Proverbs 4:10-23Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat; See also: Ephesians 5:18Luke 21:34Romans 13:13for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags. See also: Proverbs 21:17Proverbs 19:15Philippians 3:19Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. See also: Proverbs 1:8Proverbs 30:17Proverbs 6:20Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. See also: Proverbs 18:15Matthew 13:44Psalms 119:72The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. See also: Proverbs 10:1Proverbs 15:20Proverbs 23:15-16Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice! See also: Proverbs 17:25Luke 1:58Luke 11:27-28My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. See also: Psalms 119:2Psalms 119:9-11Deuteronomy 6:5For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. See also: Proverbs 22:14Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:26Hosea 4:111 Corinthians 10:8Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? See also: Ephesians 5:181 Samuel 25:36-37Luke 12:45-46Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine. See also: Ephesians 5:18Isaiah 5:11Proverbs 20:1Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. See also: 1 John 2:16Psalms 119:372 Samuel 11:2In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. See also: Isaiah 28:7-8Isaiah 28:3Luke 16:25-26Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things. See also: Jude 1:12-13Proverbs 2:12Hosea 7:5Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging: See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:2-7Matthew 24:382 Samuel 13:28“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.” See also: Jeremiah 5:3Isaiah 56:121 Corinthians 15:32-34
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)23 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
Proverbs 23:1
Ver. 1. Sit. Saul sat at table, and the custom of lying down was adopted only a little while before the captivity. It was recent among the Romans. C. --- Soliti patres considere mensis. Æn. vii.
170.
↑ 1Proverbs 23:2
Ver. 2. Throat. Restrain intemperance and talkativeness. Eccli. xxxi. 12. Sept.
"stretch forth thy hand, knowing that thou must prepare the like; but if thou be more insatiable, (3.) desire not his meats, for he has them of deceitful life."
They cannot afford real happiness, (H.) and to vie with the rich would only reduce them to poverty. Eccli. xiii. 2. S. Aug. (tr. xlvii. in Joan.) explains this text of the blessed Eucharist, observing, that we must give our life for our brethren, as Christ did for us. Before communion, we must slay the old man, and subdue our passions. C.
--- Power. Prot. "if thou be a man given to appetite." The situation of a courtier is very critical.
H. --- Those who eat with the kings of Persia, were nicely observed by an eunuch, lest they should cast their eyes on any of his concubines. Lucian. de Merced.
↑ 2Proverbs 23:3
Ver. 3. Deceit. Poison. He wishes to discover thy secret.
↑ 3Proverbs 23:4
Ver. 4. Prudence. Be more solicitous for this, than to acquire riches. C. --- Yet this wisdom must be sober. Rom. xii. 3. 1 Tim. vi. 9. Sept. "being poor, do not stretch forth thyself to the rich, but prudently retire. v. 2. H.
↑ 4Proverbs 23:5
Ver. 5. Riches. Sept. "to him, the rich man, he no where appears. He has prepared," &c. H. ---
Like. Heb. "as the eagle, it will fly," &c. H. --- We must therefore fix our hearts on more durable goods.
↑ 5Proverbs 23:6
Ver. 6. Man. Heb. "eat not bread of an evil eye," the envious, or rather the sordid miser.
↑ 6Proverbs 23:7
Ver. 7. Like. Prot. "as he thinketh is his heart, so is he: eat," &c. H. --- He is still convinced that his guests will ruin him: or "like one guarding, or trembling for his soul." Sept. "swallowing a hair, he saith," &c. He is afraid of expense, and would allow himself as little as possible. ---
Diviner. Such endeavour to speak what may come to pass, but are full of anxiety; so the miser's words are contrary to his real sentiments, (C.) as the diviner knows that he is imposing on mankind. H.
↑ 7Proverbs 23:8
Ver. 8. Words. Thou wilt be disgusted, and repine. Eccli. xxxi. 25.
↑ 8Proverbs 23:10
Ver. 10. Ones. Heb. and Sept. "ancient boundaries."
↑ 10Proverbs 23:11
Ver. 11. Kinsman. Heb. Gaal, "tutor, defendant, or redeemer," the Lord (H.) himself. Lev. xxv.
25.
↑ 11Proverbs 23:16
Ver. 16. Reins. Inmost affections.
↑ 16Proverbs 23:18
Ver. 18. Thou. Prot. "surely there is an end." Marg. "reward." H. --- The testimony of a good conscience affords the greatest comfort in death. Sept. "if thou observe these things, thou shalt have posterity." Heb. "hopes."
↑ 18Proverbs 23:20
Ver. 20. Eat. Such feasts tend to corrupt the morals, and to misspend time.
↑ 20Proverbs 23:21
Ver. 21. Rags. At death the insolent shall be exposed to shame.
↑ 21Proverbs 23:23
Ver. 23. Sell. Acquire as much wisdom as possible, and keep it with care. C. ---
Sept. "do not drive wisdom from thee."
↑ 23Proverbs 23:27
Ver. 27. Pit. It is difficult to overcome this passion, when once it has got possession of the heart.
We must therefore watch over it, and consecrate it in variably to wisdom. v. 26.
↑ 27Proverbs 23:28
Ver. 28. Him. Prot. "increaseth the transgressors among men," (H.) and like a harpy, kills all whom she can entrap.
↑ 28Proverbs 23:29
Ver. 29. Whose father. S. Jerom has read ab avi, instead of abo, (C.) which is an interjection, (Boch.) alas! or it means, "trouble." Sept. "drunkenness," (Chal.
C.) or "sorrow." Prot. --- Falls.
Sept. "hath sorrows." Heb. "babbling," (Prot. H.) or discontents of mind. C. ---
Cause.
Drunkards often fall upon their best friends, as Alexander did on Clytus. M.
↑ 29Proverbs 23:31
Ver. 31. Yellow. Or bright, as it is said there is only one red wine in Palestine. ---
Pleasantly.
Heb. "it goeth right," and is excellent. C.
↑ 31Proverbs 23:32
Ver. 32. Basilisk, ( regulus). Heb. Tsiphoni, (H.) as asp. Cerastes, &c. Ps. xc. 13.
↑ 32Proverbs 23:33
Ver. 33. Women. Wine excites to lust. C. See c. xx. 1. --- Shall. Sept. "shall these." H.
↑ 33Proverbs 23:34
Ver. 34. When. Sept. "in a great wave." Never is reason more wanted, nor less able to perform her duty.
↑ 34Proverbs 23:35
Ver. 35. Drew. Chal. "plundered." Sept. "mocked at me." --- Again. This is the woeful effect of drunkenness, that men are not deterred from it, though they be sensible of its dreadful consequences. M.
↑ 35License: 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