Daily Bible Readings January 28 2008 3rd Monday Ordinary Time

January 28 2008 Monday 3rd 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/012808.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

2 Samuel 5:1-7, 10
Douay-Rheims Challoner

1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.
3 The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel.
4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5 In Hebron he reigned over Juda seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty years over all Israel and Juda.
6 And the king and all the men that were with him went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: and they said to David: Thou shalt not come in hither unless thou take away the blind and the lame that say: David shall not come in hither.
7 But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.
10 And he went on prospering and growing up, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.

Responsorial Psalm 88:20, 21-22, 25-26
DR Challoner Text Only
Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst:
I have laid help upon one that is mighty,
and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
I have found David my servant:
with my holy oil I have anointed him.
For my hand shall help him:
and my arm shall strengthen him.
And my truth and my mercy shall be with him:
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
And I will set his hand in the sea;
and his right hand in the rivers.

The Gospel According to Saint Mark 3:22-30
Haydock New Testament

22 And the Scribes, who were come down from Jerusalem, said:

He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils he casteth out devils.

23 And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables:

How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and cannot stand, but hath an end. 27 No man can enter into the house of a strong man, and rob him of his goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then shall he plunder his house.

28 Amen, I say to you, that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme: 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.

30 Because they said:

“He hath an unclean spirit.”

Haydock Commentary 2 Samuel 5:1-7, 10

• Ver. 1. Tribes. Thus were God’s promises sweetly fulfilled, and David obtained the quiet dominion over all Israel, excepting perhaps a few of the tribe of Benjamin, according to the Vulgate. 1 Par. xii. 29. An army of 340,822 was collected on this occasion; and David signalized the commencement of his reign, by the taking of Jerusalem. C.—The tribe of Issachar is not specified in the text; but Josephus asserts, that 20,000 of them assembled; so that the army would amount to 359 (Salien) or 60 thousand, besides the 822. C.—These might be considered as the deputies of all the rest of their brethren. 1 Par. xii. 38. They were abundantly supplied with all necessaries. Salien.—Flesh, of the same nation, as Moses had specified. Deut. xvii. 15. C.—They now relinquish all the seeds of division, which had before hindered them from joining with their brethren of Juda. Kennicott discovers several important alterations, by comparing this history with 1 Chron. xi. Dissert. i. H.
• Ver. 2. Lead out to battle. His experience in war was a great recommendation. M.—Feed, as a shepherd, under which character he is first represented. H.—Other rulers were afterwards honoured with the same title, (C.) particularly the governors of the Church. Act. xx. &c. David’s name is written without i, in the books before the captivity; whence Kennicott would infer, that the canticles were perhaps not the work of Solomon, as the i occurs there; Duid for Dud. H.
• Ver. 3. Ancients; princes of the tribes, and officers, (C.) with all the chief magistrates. H.—The high priest, Abiathar, received the oaths of allegiance from the people, and of the king, who promised to govern according to the laws of God. The ark was probably present, and unnumerable sacrifices offered on this solemn occasion, as was usual. 1 Par. xii. 26. Hebron continued to be a place for sacrifices. C. xv. 7. C.—David had erected here a temporary altar and tabernacle, where Abiathar officiated in his pontifical robes, as it was not safe for the people to go into the dominions of Isboseth, either to Gabaon or to Cariathiarim. Tostat.—Israel, acknowledging the right which David had to the throne, by God’s appointment. H. W.
• Ver. 4. Forty, a round number, as another half year is specified below; (C.) or Solomon might be crowned at the expiration of the 40^th year. D.
• Ver. 6. Land. This was the only canton which the infidels still retained, as they had still possession of the citadel of Jebus, (C.) though the Israelites had been in the country above 400 years. Ken.—Nothing could reflect greater glory on the beginning of David’s reign, than the seizing of this place, (C.) which was deemed so impregnable, that the Jebusites thought the blind and the lame were sufficient to defend it. H.—They placed some upon the walls, (M.) “despising him, on account of the strength of their walls.”
• Ver. 7. Castle: “the lower city,” (Josephus) spread over Mount Sion.

Haydock Commentary Mark 3:22-30

• Ver. 22. From S. Matt. xii. 22, et dein. we learn that it was on the occasion of the delivery of a possessed person, this blasphemy was uttered.
• Ver. 24. Kingdom against kingdom. As this is true in all kingdoms and states where civil dissensions obtaineth, so it is especially verified in heresies and heretics which have always divisions among themselves, as a punishment for their abandoning the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, the only centre of peace and unity.
• Ver. 29. See S. Matt. xii. 32.—Of an everlasting sin; i.e. of eternal punishment. Wi.—What is here called everlasting offence, is (as S. Matt. expresseth it) that which shall neither be remitted in this life, nor in the life to come; which words would not be true, says S. Austin, if some sins were not forgiven in the world to come. Now, as no mortal sin can be forgiven after death, there must necessarily be smaller transgressions, which we call venial; though many of our separated brethren will needs have all sins to be mortal; which is very far from a comfortable tenet.