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Daily Bible Readings With Traditional Catholic Commentary October 20 2007 Saturday 28th Week Ordinary Time

October 20 2007 Saturday 28^th 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/102007.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Romans 4:13-18
Haydock NT

13 For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be the heir of the world, but through the justice of faith. 14 For is they who are of the law, be heirs: faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect. 15 For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things that are not, as those that are. 18 Who, against hope, believed in hope, that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

The Gospel According to Luke 12:8-12
Haydock NT

8 And I say to you: Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the Angels of God. 9 But he that shall deny me before men, shall be denied before the Angels of God. 10 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. 11 And when they shall bring you into the synagogues, and to the magistrates, and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say. 12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you ought to say.

Haydock Commentary Romans 4:13-18

• Ver. 13. Of the world, &c. By the world, some understand the land of Chanaan, which is sometimes meant by the whole earth, particularly in the times of David and Solomon, when they ruled over the neighbouring nations. But others think that the apostle alludes to the passage of Genesis, where the Almighty promises that in his (Abraham’s) seed, all the nations of the earth should be blessed; which promise extends much beyond the narrow limits of Chanaan. In fine, it may be understood in a spiritual sense, of his dignity of father of all the faithful; which makes him, in a manner, master of the whole world, since his spiritual children, spread through the whole world, have the universe for their inheritance. Calmet.—Postula a me, et dabo tibi Gentes hæreditatem tuam et possessionem tuam terminus terræ. Ps. ii. 8.  A.—It was by Christ that Abraham was to be heir of the world, in as much as the spiritual kingdom of Christ should be spread over all the world. And this of one who was of the seed of David, being heir of the world, was not by the law, or by virtue of the law, which was not given to Moses till 400 years after. Wi.
• Ver. 14. For if they, who are of the law, be heirs: faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect. That is, if the Jews, who are under the law, are the only heirs of the blessings promised, it will follow that the faith which Abraham had before the circumcision, and before the law, was of no value, which I have shewn to be false. And, secondly, it will follow that the promise made to him, that in him all nations should be blessed, is also null. Wi.
• Ver. 15. For the law worketh wrath, not of itself, nor by the intention of the lawgiver, but in as much as it is the occasion of greater punishments, when persons transgress it knowingly. Wi.—The law abstracting from faith and grace, worketh wrath occasionally, by being an occasion of many transgressions, which provoke God’s wrath. Ch.
• Ver. 16.  There are two kinds of children of Abraham, to whom alone these promises are made; the one is according to the flesh, the other according to the spirit. The former of these had no more part in the promises made to him and his seed than the Gentiles, unless they imitated the fidelity and obedience of their father. Calmet.—It is in this sense of spiritual father, that the priest at the altar, speaking in the name of the faithful, calls Abraham our patriarch. Estius.
• Ver. 18. Who, against hope, believed in hope, or with hope. That is, Abraham, against all probability of human hopes, still hoped in God, says S. Chrys. that he should have a son by Sara: and in this, he was not weak in faith. Therefore it, that is, his great faith, was imputed to him unto justice: and also our faith shall be imputed to us unto justice, or make us truly just, by believing in Christ, &c. Wi.

Haydock Commentary Luke 12:8-12

• Ver. 8. Whosoever shall confess me. By these words we are informed, that more than bare inward protestations of fidelity will be demanded of us; for he moreover requires an exterior confession of our faith. S. Ambrose.