Daily Bible Readings January 24 2008 2nd Week Ordinary Time

January 24 2008 Thursday 2nd Week Ordinary Time

About the sources used. The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the USA, 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. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.

Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/012408.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7
Douay-Rheims Challoner

6 Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.
7 And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
8 And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given but a thousand, what can he have more but the kingdom?
9 And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward.

1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David exceedingly.
2 And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.
3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art: and I will speak of thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall see, I will tell thee.
4 And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and said to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he hath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee.
5 And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing David, who is without fault?
6 And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.
7 Then Jonathan called David, and told him all these words: and Jonathan brought in David to Saul, and he was before him, as he had been yesterday and the day before.

Responsorial Psalm 55:2-3, 9-10a, 10b-11, 12-13 in Hebrew Ps 56
Douay-Rheims Challoner. Text Only.
Have mercy on me, O God,
for man hath trodden me under foot;
all the day long he hath afflicted me
fighting against me.
My enemies have trodden on me all the day long;
for they are many that make war against me.
I have declared to thee my life:
thou hast set me tears in thy sight,
As also in thy promise.
Then shall my enemies be turned back.
In what day soever I shall call upon thee
behold I know thou art my God.
In God will I praise the word,
in the Lord will I praise his speech.
In God have I hoped,
I will not fear what man can do to me.
In me, O God, are vows to thee,
which I will pay, praises to thee:
Because thou hast delivered my soul from death,
my feet from falling:
that I may please in the sight of God,
in the light of the living.

The Gospel According to Saint Mark 3:7-12
Haydock NT

7 But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea, 8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond the Jordan: and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things which he did, came to him. 9 And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him: 10 For he hath healed many, so that they pressed upon him to touch him, as many as had evils. 11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him; and they cried, saying:

12 Thou art the Son of God.

And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known.

Haydock Commentary 1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7

• Ver. 6. Philistine. Some explain this of some fresh achievement against that nation, (Malvenda. W.) but without reason.—Dancing. Heb. also playing on the flute, or on some such instrument of music. C.—So Mary sung after the Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. Ex. xv. 20. 2 K. i. 20. Judg. xi. 34.
• Ver. 7. Sung. The chorus of their song is given. C.—“The women sung, Saul slew his thousands; and the virgins answered, And David,” &c. Josephus.—The death of Goliath was equivalent to the slaughter of thousands, as he had filled the whole army of Israel with dismay. H.
• Ver. 8. A thousand. These women were guilty of an indiscretion, through excess of zeal, as it is always displeasing for the sovereign to hear any of his subjects preferred before him. S. Chrys. hom. i. de Saul.—The jealousy of Saul was the more excited, as he had been threatened with the loss of his kingdom, and perceived in David all the qualifications of a king. A malo principe tanquam successor timetur quisquis est dignior. Pliny in Traj.—But was David responsible for what was spoken in his praise? C.—The Vat. Sept. omit what follows till v. 12. “And Saul feared David, (13) and he removed,” &c. The Alex. copy agrees with the Vulg. H.—Those who are proud, cannot bear the praises of others. W.
• Ver. 9. Eye. Sept. “and Saul suspected.” H.—Chal. “laid snares for David.” C.
• Ver. 1. Jonathan. He was most interested, as David might be feared as a competitor; (M.) and, under the cloak of friendship, he might more eaily destroy him. Saul was stranger to the generous sentiments of his son, or he would never have made the proposal. H.—Grotius compares him with Germanicus. C.
• Ver. 2. Morning. Sept. add, “to-morrow.” M.
• Ver. 3. Field. Saul would come thither, or Jonathan would sound his father’s disposition, and give David information in the place appointed. C.
• Ver. 5. Hand, in danger. M.
• Ver. 6. Slain. His inconstant temper might cause him to be moved with the expostulation of his son; but he presently relapsed, if he were ever sincere. C.—The Scripture seems to insinuate that he was. M.

 

Haydock Commentary Mark 3:7-12

• Ver. 8. What is understood by Idumea, see Rutter’s Evangelical Harmony Vol. 1. P. 286.
• Ver. 11-12. The unclean spirits being obliged by the Divine Power, not only to come and worship, but also to declare his majesty, exclaimed: Thou art the Son of God. How astonishing then is the blindness of the Arians, who even after his resurrection denied him to be the Son of God, whom the devils confessed as such when clothed with human nature. But it is certain that not only the devils, but the infirm that were healed, and the apostles themselves were forbidden, as well as the unclean spirits, to proclaim his divinity; lest the passion and death of Christ might be on that account deferred. Ven. Bede.

Catena Aurea Mark 3:7-12

Bede: It goes on, “But Jesus withdrew Himself with His disciples to the sea;” He fled from their treachery, because the hour of His passion had not yet come, and no place away from Jerusalem was proper for His Passion. By which also He gave an example to His disciples, when they suffer persecution in one city, to flee to another.
Theophylact: At the same time again, He goes away, that by quitting the ungrateful He might do good to more, “for many followed Him, and He healed them.”
For there follows, “And a great multitude from Galilee, &c.” Syrians and Sidonians, being foreigners, receive benefit from Christ; but His kindred the Jews persecute Him: thus there is no profit in relationship, if there be not a similarity in goodness.
Bede: For the strangers followed Him, because they saw the works of His powers, and in order to hear the words of His teaching. But the Jews, induced solely by their opinion of His powers, in a vast multitude come to hear Him, and to beg for His aiding health.
Wherefore there follows, “And He spake to His disciples, that they should wait, &c.”
Theophylact: Consider then how He hid His glory, for He begs for a little ship, lest the crowd should hurt Him, so that entering into it, He might remain unharmed.
It follows, “As many as had scourges, &c.”
But he means by scourges, diseases, for God scourges us, as a father does His children.
Bede: Both therefore fell down before the Lord, those who had the plagues of bodily diseases, and those who were vexed by unclean spirits. The sick did this simply with the intention of obtaining health, but the demoniacs, or rather the devils within them, because under the mastery of a fear of God they were compelled not only to fall down before Him but also to praise His majesty.
Wherefore it goes on, “And they cried out, saying, Thou art the Son of God.”
And here we must wonder at the blindness of the Arians, who, after the glory of His resurrection, deny the Son of God, Whom the devils confess to be the Son of God, though still clothed with human flesh.
There follows, “And He straitly charged them, that they should not make Him known.”
For God said to the sinner, “Why does thou preach my laws?” [Ps 50:16] A sinner is forbidden to preach the Lord, lest any one listening to his preaching should follow him in his error, for the devil is an evil master, who always mingles false things 59 with true, that the semblance of truth may cover the witness of fraud.
But not only devils, but persons healed by Christ, and even Apostles, are ordered to be silent concerning Him before the Passion, lest by the preaching of the majesty of His Divinity, the economy of His Passion should be retarded. But allegorically, in the Lord’s coming out of the synagogue, and then retiring to the sea, He prefigured the salvation of the Gentiles, to whom He deigned to come through their faith, having quitted the Jews on account of their perfidy.
For the nations, driven about in divers by-paths of error, are fitly compared to the unstable sea. [ed. note: see Cyprian, Ep. 63, also Augustine, City of God, Book 20, 16]
Again, a great crowd from various provinces followed Him, because He has received with kindness many nations, who came to Him through the preaching of the Apostles. But the ship waiting upon the Lord in the sea is the Church, collected from amongst the nations; and He goes into it lest the crowd should throng Him, because flying from the troubled minds of carnal persons, He delights to come to those who despise the glory of this world, and to dwell within them.
Further, there is a difference between thronging the Lord, and touching Him; for they throng Him, when by carnal thoughts and deeds they trouble peace, in which truth dwells; but he touches Him, who by faith and love has received Him into his heart; wherefore those who touched Him are said to have been saved.
Theophylact: Morally again, the Herodians, that is, persons who love the lusts of the flesh, wish to slay Christ. For the meaning of Herod is, ‘of skin’ [ed. note: pelliceus, see Hier. de Nom. Hebr.]. But those who quit their country, that is, a carnal mode of living, follow Christ, and their plagues are healed, that is, the sins which wound their conscience. But Jesus in us is our reason, which commands that our vessel, that is, our body, should serve Him, lest the troubles of worldly affairs should press upon our reason.