Daily Bible Readings With Traditional Catholic Commentary December 4 2007 Tuesday 1st Week of Advent

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December 4 2007 Tuesday 1^st Week of Advent

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Isaiah 11:1-10
Douay-Rheims Challoner Text

1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness.
3 And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord, He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.
4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
5 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them.
7 The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.
9 They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.
10 In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Psalm 72 Hebrew (71 LXX/Latin):1-2,7-8,12-13,17
No response. No commentary. Just text for edification.

Give to the king thy judgment, O God,
and to the king’s son thy justice:
To judge thy people with justice,
and thy poor with judgment.

In his days shall justice spring up,
and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away.
And he shall rule from sea to sea,
and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty:
and the needy that had no helper.
He shall spare the poor and needy:
and he shall save the souls of the poor.

Let his name be blessed for evermore:
his name continueth before the sun.
And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed:
all nations shall magnify him.

The Gospel According to Saint Luke 10:21-24
Haydock New Testament

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 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 Isaiah 11:1-10

• Ver. 1. Root. Juda shall not be exterminated, like the Assyrians. C.—Christ shall spring from the blessed Virgin, (W.) for the salvation of mankind. The Jews agree, that this prediction regards the Messiah; though some, with Grotius, would explain it literally of Ezekiel. They do not reflect that he was now ten years old, and that the prophet speaks of an event which should still take place after he had been a long while upon the throne. If we were to look for any figure of the Messiah, to whom this might be applicable, it would be Zorobabel. Zac. iii. 8. But how disproportionate would be the promises to the execution? Some passages may indeed relate to the return of the captives, (v. 11) as the people must have a more immediate object, to insure the accomplishment of the more elevated predictions concerning the Messiah: but these also refer ultimately to the propagation of the gospel, which the prophet had also in view. C.
• Ver. 2. Him. In the form of a dove. Jo. i. 32. H.—“The whole fountain of the Holy Ghost descending.” Ev. Nazar. S. Jer.—Christ was filled with his seven gifts, and of his fulness his servants receive. W.—Yet all virtues are the gifts of the holy Spirit, and the number seven is not specified in Heb. as the same word (C.) yirath, is rendered godliness, which (v. 3) means, the fear of the Lord. H.—God enables us to penetrate the difficulties of Scripture, and to act with prudence, &c. M.
• Ver. 3. Filled. Heb. “breath or smell.” So S. Paul says, (2 Cor. 2:15) we are the good odour of Christ. C.—Prot. “he shall make him of quick understanding (marg. Smell) in the fear,” &c. H.—Ears. Which are often deceived. M.
• Ver. 4. Wicked. Antichrist, (2 Thess 2:8) and all impiety, by means of the apostles.
• Ver. 5. Reins. He shall possess these virtues, performing his promises with the strictest fidelity. C.
• Ver. 6. Wolf. Some explain this of the Millenium. ap. S. Jer. Lact. 7:24.—But the more intelligent understand, that the fiercest nations shall embrace the gospel, and kings obey the pastors of the Church. C.—Lead. Or “drive,” as the word is used by Festus. H.
• Ver. 8. Basilisk. Ps. 9:13 (vulgate numbering). The apostles subdued kings and philosophers, without any human advantages.
• Ver. 9. Kill. The most inveterate pagans, being once converted, entirely alter their manners. Ose. 2:18
• Ver. 10. Ensign. The cross is the standard of Christians.—Sepulchre. Heb. Sept. &c. “rest.” S. Jerome gives the true sense. The holy places have been greatly reverenced, and Christian princes strove for a long time to recover them. C.—They are respected even by the Turks. Christ’s death was ignominious, but his monument was full of glory. Thus the saints being to shine, where the glory of the wicked ends. W.

Haydock Commentary Luke 10:21-24

• 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 Scriptures received by the whole Christian world!!! D. Dion. Carth.