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Siracide
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Honor a physician according to your need with the honors due to him, for truly the Lord has created him. For healing comes from the Most High, and he shall receive a gift from the king. The skill of the physician will lift up his head. He will be admired in the sight of great men. The Lord created medicines out of the earth. A prudent man will not despise them. Wasn’t water made sweet with wood, that its power might be known? He gave men skill that he might be glorified in his marvelous works. With them he heals and takes away pain. With these, the pharmacist makes a mixture. God’s works won’t be brought to an end. From him, peace is upon the face of the earth. My son, in your sickness don’t be negligent, but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you. Put away wrong doing, and direct your hands in righteousness. Cleanse your heart from all sin. Give a sweet savor and a memorial of fine flour, and pour oil on your offering, according to your means. Then give place to the physician, for truly the Lord has created him. Don’t let him leave you, for you need him. There is a time when recovery is in their hands. For they also shall ask the Lord to prosper them in diagnosis and in healing for the maintenance of life. He who sins before his Maker, let him fall into the hands of the physician. My son, let your tears fall over the dead, and as one who suffers grievously, begin lamentation. Wind up his body with due honor. Don’t neglect his burial. Make bitter weeping and make passionate wailing. Let your mourning be according to his merit, for one day or two, lest you be spoken evil of; and so be comforted for your sorrow. For from sorrow comes death. Sorrow of heart saps one’s strength. In calamity, sorrow also remains. A poor man’s life is grievous to the heart. Don’t give your heart to sorrow. Put it away, remembering the end. Don’t forget it, for there is no returning again. You do him no good, and you would harm yourself. Remember his end, for so also will yours be: yesterday for him, and today for you. When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest. Be comforted for him when his spirit departs from him. The wisdom of the scribe comes by the opportunity of leisure. He who has little business can become wise. How could he become wise who holds the plow, who glories in the shaft of the goad, who drives oxen and is occupied in their labors, and who mostly talks about bulls? He will set his heart upon turning his furrows. His lack of sleep is to give his heifers their fodder. So is every craftsman and master artisan who passes his time by night as by day, those who cut engravings of signets. His diligence is to make great variety. He sets his heart to preserve likeness in his portraiture, and is careful to finish his work. So too is the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the unwrought iron. The smoke of the fire will waste his flesh. He toils in the heat of the furnace. The noise of the hammer deafens his ear. His eyes are upon the pattern of the object. He will set his heart upon perfecting his works. He will be careful to adorn them perfectly. So is the potter sitting at his work and turning the wheel around with his feet, who is always anxiously set at his work. He produces his handiwork in quantity. He will fashion the clay with his arm and will bend its strength in front of his feet. He will apply his heart to finish the glazing. He will be careful to clean the kiln. All these put their trust in their hands. Each becomes skillful in his own work. Without these no city would be inhabited. Men wouldn’t reside as foreigners or walk up and down there. They won’t be sought for in the council of the people. They won’t mount on high in the assembly. They won’t sit on the seat of the judge. They won’t understand the covenant of judgment. Neither will they declare instruction and judgment. They won’t be found where parables are. But they will maintain the fabric of the age. Their prayer is in the handiwork of their craft.
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Notes · Haydock (1859, domaine public)Notes : 25
Notes en anglais Commentaire catholique du XIXᵉ siècle du P. George Leo Haydock, tel qu’il a été publié.
Ces notes gardent les polémiques de leur époque : certaines parlent durement du peuple juif ou d'autres chrétiens. L'Église enseigne autrement aujourd'hui. On ne peut imputer au peuple juif la mort du Christ (Nostra Aetate 4 ; Catéchisme 597–598), et les chrétiens des autres communautés sont nos frères dans le Seigneur (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). L'unité des chrétiens
Siracide 38:1
Ver. 1. Honour and pay. Prov. viii. 9. C. --- Gr. adds, "with his fees." H. --- The health of body and soul must be regarded. W.
↑ 1Siracide 38:2
Ver. 2. King. Physicians were formerly kept at the king's expense. Pliny xxix. 1.
↑ 2Siracide 38:4
Ver. 4. Them, as he will all superstitious remedies. C. --- "A crowd of physicians killed Cæsar,"
said Adrian, on his death-bed. They often try experiments, and kill with impunity. Pliny xxix. 1.
--- Yet we must not condemn the prudent use of medicine. C.
↑ 4Siracide 38:5
Ver. 5. Wood, of various sorts. Grot. --- Many suppose that he alludes to the miracle of Moses, (Ex. xv. 25.) who thus was supernaturally informed (C.) of the effects of a certain wood. T. M.
S. Aug. q. lvii. in Ex.
↑ 5Siracide 38:6
Ver. 6. The. Gr. "that his or its virtue might be known by man."
↑ 6Siracide 38:7
Ver. 7. These plants. --- And of. Gr. "Of these the maker of ointments shall compose a mixture and his works are not yet finished, when peace ( health) from him appears on the face of the earth." H. --- Disease flee before him; so powerful are his medicines, that the very smell effects a cure.
↑ 7Siracide 38:9
Ver. 9. Thee. We must neither trust too much in physicians, (2 Par. xvi. 12.) nor despise them, as this would be tempting God.
↑ 9Siracide 38:10
Ver. 10. Sin. All diseases are in consequence of original sin, and may are inflicted for actual transgressions. Jo. ix. 2. and 1 Cor. xi. 30. Num. xii. 10. C.
↑ 10Siracide 38:11
Ver. 11. Then. Gr. "as being no longer. Yet give," &c. H. --- Be converted and offer sacrifice, as if there were no hopes of life. Still do not despair. C.
↑ 11Siracide 38:13
Ver. 13. Thou. Gr. "a sweet smell ( success) shall be in their hands." H.
↑ 13Siracide 38:15
Ver. 15. Physician. This state is very troublesome, and a punishment of sin. v.
10.
↑ 15Siracide 38:16
Ver. 16. Burial. Thus we must shew our respect for the deceased. The Jews also prayed for them. 2 Mac. xii. 42. C. --- "The care...and pomp of funerals are rather the consolations of survivors than of service to the dead." S. Aug. cura 2.
↑ 16Siracide 38:17
Ver. 17. For. Gr. "and shed burning tears of mourning, (18) and lament for," &c.
H. --- Sorrow would be unsuitable for the saints, and useless for the damned, who being rebellious to God do not deserve our lamentations. Yet nature dictates, and people expect we should allow something to the first emotions of sorrow, (C.) for a day or two; and we may receive the consolatory visits of our friends, during the seven days of mourning. C. xxii. 13. Jo. xi. 19. S. Paulin. ad Pam. --- To avoid the evil reports of men, we must shew ourselves to be really sorry; yet we must not suffer grief to hurt our health. W.
↑ 17Siracide 38:19
Ver. 19. And the, &c. is not in Greek. Excessive sorrow brings on sickness, and renders us unfit for any thing.
↑ 19Siracide 38:20
Ver. 20. Aside, in solitude. --- Substance; or what the poor has to live on, will seem sweet or bitter according as he is affected with joy or grief.
↑ 20Siracide 38:21
Ver. 21. End. This is the chief utility derived from attending funerals.
↑ 21Siracide 38:23
Ver. 23. Thee. A man on his death-bed, or already dead, is introduced speaking.
C.
↑ 23Siracide 38:24
Ver. 24. Him. Gr. "thyself." He is at rest, we hope; (H.) be thou so too. C.
↑ 24Siracide 38:25
Ver. 25. A scribe; that is, a doctor of the law, or a learned man. Ch. --- Sorrow (H.) and too much employment, are injurious to learning. C. --- Sapientiæ otia negotia sunt. S. Bern. ser. 85.
Cant. --- When pastors have leisure, they would do well to write, in imitation of S. Paul, &c. W.
↑ 25Siracide 38:28
Ver. 28. Work: engraving on gold, or silver, or on precious stones.
↑ 28Siracide 38:29
Ver. 29. Sitting. Such was the ancient custom of smiths, (C.) who carried all their implements with them, and laboured with much pain. Chardin.
↑ 29Siracide 38:34
Ver. 34. Glazing. The earthen vessel would otherwise spoil all but oil and water.
C.
↑ 34Siracide 38:37
Ver. 37. Dwell. Gr. "travel," to get a livelihood, (Grot.) or to acquire wisdom, (C.
xxxiv. 9. and xxxix. 5.) and walk about like the ancient philosophers. They shall not be chosen magistrates. C.
↑ 37Siracide 38:38
Ver. 38. Spoken. They have not leisure to attend the lectures of sages; (H.) nor are they ever quoted by them.
↑ 38Siracide 38:39
Ver. 39. World, giving children to the commonwealth, (M.) and employing themselves in useful arts. The Jews would not allow magicians, players, &c. to reside in their country. --- Craft. They pray that they may succeed in their employment, while some also strive to comply with their religious duties. C. ---
Applying. Gr. refers this to the following chapter, "As for him who applies his soul and meditates on the law of the Most High, he will," &c. H.
↑ 39Licence: 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. · Crédits et licences