Daily Bible Readings Commentary October 17 2007 Wednesday 28th Week Ordinary Time Catholic Church

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October 17 2007 Wednesday 28^th Week Ordinary Time.

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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.

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Romans 2:1-11

Haydock New Testament

1 Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself: for thou dost the same things which thou judgest. 2 For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and long-suffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

5 But according to thy hardness, and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God, 6 Who will render to every man according to his works: 7 To them indeed, who, according to patience in good work, seek glory, and honour, and incorruption, life everlasting: 8 But to them who are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. 9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. 10 But glory, and honour, and peace, to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

Haydock Commentary Romans 2:1-11

• Ver. 1. Wherefore thou art inexcusable, &c. He seems to give a general admonition to every one, both Jews and Gentiles, not to blame, judge, or condemn others, when perhaps he, or those of his religion, may be guilty of the like sins. Let him rather call to mind the just judgment of God, which, they that are sinners, cannot escape. Let him also reflect, that if God hath hitherto deferred to punish him, it hath been through the riches and abundance of his goodness, patience, and long-forbearance, or longanimity: that he must take care not to harden his heart any longer, lest he heap up to himself a fatal treasure at the day of judgment, when God will render to every one according to his works, and not according to his faith only, says S. Chrys. hom. v. Wi.
• Ver. 5. The apostle is evidently speaking to the converted Jews, and not to the Gentiles. For the Gentiles believed in certain judges in hell, who passed sentence on every one as soon as he departed out of life. This is what the learned call poetical theology, and considered as fabulous. But besides a particular judgment at the hour of death, the Hebrews believed in a general judgment of all men, or at least of all the just, in the valley of Jehosaphat; as may be seen in the prophets, and in the books of Wisdom and Machabees. Calmet.
• Ver. 9-10. Of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. That is, God, as a just judge, will not have any respect to their persons, but punish or reward both Jews and Gentiles, according to their good or bad works. And salvation is now offered to both. Wi.

The Gospel According to Saint Luke 11:42-46

Jesus said:

42 But wo to you Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue, and every herb, and pass over judgment, and the charity of God: Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone. 43 Wo to you Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the market-place. 44 Wo to you, because you are as sepulchers that appear not, and men that walk over them are not aware.

45 Then one of the lawyers answering, said to him:

Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also.

46 But he said:

Wo to you lawyers also: because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

Haydock Commentary Luke 11:42-46

• Ver. 43. Salutations in the market-place, &c. Such as wish to be saluted, and have the first places, that they may appear great, are likened to sepulchres, which are covered externally with ornaments, but are filled inwardly with rottenness. Cyril ex D. Thoma.
• Ver. 44. Sepulchres that appear not. This comparison is partly different from that of Matt. xxiii. 27. For there Christ compares hypocrites to whitened sepulchers, which may be seen and avoided; here he compares them to sepulchers covered with grass, which appear not: yet the comparison, in the main, is the same; that whether they appear or not, still under them is corruption: as the interior of the Pharisees was always full of vice and corruption. Wi.—Men that walk, &c. Because they bear with them a fair outside, but are made up of nothing but corruption. S. Ambrose.
• Ver. 45. Then one of the lawyers, &c. Correction, which turns to the advantage of the meek, appears always more intolerable to the wicked. Christ denounces woes against the Pharisees for deviating from the right path, and the doctors of the law found them equally applicable to themselves. S. Cyril ex D. Thoma.—How miserable is the conscience which, upon hearing the word of God, thinks itself insulted, and always hears the punishment of the reprobate rehearsed as the words of its own condemnation. Ven. Bede.