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October 6 2007 Saturday 26th Week Ordinary Time.
About the sources used.
The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Catholic Church, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the comparable readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible.
Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/100607.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Baruch 4:5-12,27-29
Douay-Rheims Challoner text from e-Sword
5 Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
6 You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.
7 For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
8 For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
9 For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:
10 For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
11 For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.
27 Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away.
28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much.
29 For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
Haydock Commentary Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29
- Ver. 5. Memorial. Gr. Lit. “O memorable Israel.” H.—Ye are left to support and restore the nation. This part of the letter is for their comfort.
- Ver. 6. Sold, like slaves, or people taken in war. C.
- Ver. 8. God. Lit. “Him.” Gr. “the Eternal.” H.—This is taken from Deut. xxxii. 15. C.—Nursed you. The city is beautifully personified as a widow. v. 12. H.
- Ver. 9. Near. Heb. would be “daughters of Sion.” v. 14.
- Ver. 28. When. Gr. “now ten times as much, being converted, seek him.” H.—The Jews became much more docile and attached to the law.
Gospel According to Luke 10:17-24
Haydock New Testament
17 And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying:
Lord, the devils, also, are subject to us in thy name.
18 And he said to them:
I saw Satan as lightning falling from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents, and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. 20 But ye not rejoice in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.
21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and said:
I give thanks to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to the little ones. Yea, Father: because so it hath pleased thee.
22 All things are delivered to me by my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal him.
23 And turning to his disciples, he said:
Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. 24 For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.
Haydock Commentary Luke 10:17-24
- Ver. 18. I saw Satan as lightning, &c. Many expound it in this manner: I, who am from eternity, saw Satan with all the rebellious angels, as glorious as they were, fall from heaven; fear then, and tremble, though you have received such favours from God. Other take it in this sense, that Christ, by his incarnation, hath seen the power of the devils lessened and confounded, according to what he also said, (Jo. xii. 31.) Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Wi.—What connexion* have these words with what goes before? Some understand them thus: the reign of the devil is near at an end; this prince of darkness is going to be overturned; he will fall from the air, where he reigns, with the same precipitation as lightning, which cuts the clouds and presently disappears. It is almost the same thing he says in other places. “The prince of this world is already judged; behold now is the judgment of this world; behold now the prince of this world shall be cast forth! When I sent you to preach the gospel to the poor, I saw Satan fall; I saw his empire overturned. The last effort which this empire of darkness shall make is the death of our Saviour, as he himself says: This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Since his resurrection he has bound the dragon in the abyss for a thousand years; he has shut up the entrance, and sealed it with his seal.” Apoc. xii. 9. xx. 2. Others think Jesus speaks here of the fall of Lucifer, at the beginning of the creation. Wishing to give his disciples a lesson of humility, on account of the vain complacency which he saw they took in the miracles they wrought, he says to them: Beware of pride, that precipitated the first angel from heaven: I have seen him in the glory with which he was surrounded, and I have seen him hurried into the abyss. Fear, lest the same should happen to you. The former explanation appears to us more simple and literal. Calmet.
- Ver. 19. Given you power, &c. By these words our Saviour seems to insinuate, that the venom of serpents, and the other noxious qualities of some animals, proceed from the malice of the devil. These are the arms and the instruments he makes use of to kill us, being the prince of death and a murderer from the beginning, as the Scripture styles him. The Jews attributed sickness, poisons, and every things of the same king to evils spirits.
- Ver. 21. He rejoiced in the Holy Ghost. In almost all Greek copies, we read in spirit, without holy. And it is expounded of Christ’s own spirit. Wi.—I give thanks, &c. In this verse we see plainly refuted the heretical Marcion, and his follower Manicheus, who asserted that God was not the creator of the earth, or of any thing existing on the earth. S. Epiphanius says, that in a gospel written by Marcion, the words Father and earth were entirely omitted. Who does not here deplore the blindness of heretics, who, in order to spread their errors, do not hesitate thus to corrupt the original Scripture received by the whole Christian world!!!** D. Dion. Carth. (Denis the Carthusian)
*connexion – as it appears in the text.
** personal note – it’s impossible sometimes not to see this.
Daily Bible Readings Commentary October 6 2007 Saturday 26th Week Ordinary Time.
Posted by Bob on October 6, 2007
Please look here. Many people are coming via search engine. Google is sending people to last year’s readings. Please check the date. If you are on the wrong year please CLICK HERE and then check the calendar to the left. Sunday readings are usually posted on the previous Wednesday and then again on the proper Sunday. Thank you, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
October 6 2007 Saturday 26th Week Ordinary Time.
About the sources used.
The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Catholic Church, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the comparable readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible.
Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/100607.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Baruch 4:5-12,27-29
Douay-Rheims Challoner text from e-Sword
5 Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
6 You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.
7 For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
8 For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
9 For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:
10 For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
11 For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.
27 Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away.
28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much.
29 For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
Haydock Commentary Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29
Gospel According to Luke 10:17-24
Haydock New Testament
17 And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying:
Lord, the devils, also, are subject to us in thy name.
18 And he said to them:
I saw Satan as lightning falling from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents, and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. 20 But ye not rejoice in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.
21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and said:
I give thanks to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to the little ones. Yea, Father: because so it hath pleased thee.
22 All things are delivered to me by my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal him.
23 And turning to his disciples, he said:
Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. 24 For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.
Haydock Commentary Luke 10:17-24
*connexion – as it appears in the text.
** personal note – it’s impossible sometimes not to see this.
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