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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)3 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published. Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 133
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
Introduction to the chapter
PSALM CXXXIII. (ECCE NUNC BENEDICITE.)
An exhortation to praise God continually.
Psalms 133:1
Ver. 1. Canticle. David composed it for the Levites going on duty, (H.) or Solomon for the dedication of the temple. The people might use it on the last day of the three great festivals; or the Levites are exhorted to watch carefully.
They may excite each other, (v. 2. C.) as all Christians should do. 1 Pet. ii. 9.
Bert. --- In the courts, &c. seems to be taken from Ps. cxxxiv.
2. (C.) as it is not in Heb. S. Hil. --- The court of the people was divided for the men and women, and perhaps there was a separate place for the priests, and for the Levites, in the court of allotted to them, where the latter kept watch. C.
Ver. 3. Thee. "A Levite on guard answers the cantor," (Houbig.) or the priests say this to the people, when they were departing home. Num. vi. 23. C. ---
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
Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)3 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 133
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
Introduction to the chapter
PSALM CXXXIII. (ECCE NUNC BENEDICITE.)
An exhortation to praise God continually.
Psalms 133:1
Ver. 1. Canticle. David composed it for the Levites going on duty, (H.) or Solomon for the dedication of the temple. The people might use it on the last day of the three great festivals; or the Levites are exhorted to watch carefully.
They may excite each other, (v. 2. C.) as all Christians should do. 1 Pet. ii. 9.
Bert. --- In the courts, &c. seems to be taken from Ps. cxxxiv.
2. (C.) as it is not in Heb. S. Hil. --- The court of the people was divided for the men and women, and perhaps there was a separate place for the priests, and for the Levites, in the court of allotted to them, where the latter kept watch. C.
↑ 1Psalms 133:2
Ver. 2. Lift up. This posture was very natural, and expressive. 1 Tim. ii. 8. H. ---
Agatharcides testifies, that the Jews did no servile work on the sabbath, but
"stretched for their hands to pray in the temple, till the evening." Joseph. con.
App. 1.
↑ 2Psalms 133:3
Ver. 3. Thee. "A Levite on guard answers the cantor," (Houbig.) or the priests say this to the people, when they were departing home. Num. vi. 23. C. ---
Earth. All things were made to praise God. W.
↑ 3License: 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