Daily Bible Readings Saturday July 18 2009 15th Week in Ordinary Time

July 18 2009 Saturday Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Blessed Angeline of Marsciano

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Moses Leading the Exodus from Egypt

Exodus 12:37-42
Douay-Rheims Challoner

And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many. And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any meat.

And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt. This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations.

Responsorial Psalm 135:1 and 23-24, 10-15 (Ps 136 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever.
With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
ho divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 12:14-21
Haydock New Testament

Pharisees and Herodians Conspire

And the Pharisees going out, made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all. And he charged them that they should not make him known. That the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias, the prophet, saying:

Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.

The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name the Gentiles shall hope.

Haydock Commentary Exodus 12:37-42
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 37. Ramesse. The first of the 42 stations or encampments of the Hebrews.  M. — Socoth, or tents, perhaps the scenæ of Antoninus, or the Mischenot, mentioned C. i. 11. — About. Moses does not speak with such precision, as after the people had been numbered, and were found, 13 months after, to be 603,550 men, without the Levites, or those under 20 years.  C. — Women and old men, and Egyptians, who joined their company, might make them amount to three millions.  M.
• Ver. 40. Egypt. Sam. and Sept. add, “and in the land of Chanaan, they and their fathers,” dating from the departure of Abraham from Haran in his 75th year; from which period, till Jacob’s going into Egypt, 215 years elapsed.  Kennicott produces this instance, as a proof that the Hebrew text is defective: Dis. 1. p. 399.  Josephus ii. 15.  S. Aug. q. 47. and others, admit this addition as genuine; which, however we have observed on Genesis, is rejected by Ayrolus, Tournemine, &c.  H.
• Ver. 42. Observable, in which the Lord has been our sentinel and preserver.  Vatab.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 12:14-21

• Ver. 18. Behold my servant, &c.  The words are out of the prophet Isaias, C. xli. 1.  And it is observed that the Jews, before the coming of Jesus, used to expound them of their Messias.  Wi. — Our Lord Jesus Christ may be called the Servant of the Almighty, because, as himself assures us, he came down not to be served, but to serve; or, as S. Remigius says, not on account of his divinity, but on account of his humanity, which he received from the pure flesh and blood of the immaculate Virgin.  Ex D. Thoma.  There is some difference in the text of Isaias, whence this is taken.  The apostles and evangelists did not confine themselves to cite the very words of the text, but only the sense.  V.
• Ver. 19. He shall not contend. These words do not occur in the prophet, but are added by S. Matthew to express more fully the sense, because he offered himself up to the will of his heavenly Father, and delivered himself into the hands of those who persecuted him.  Aquin.  Nor cry out; because, like a lamb, in the hands of the shearer, he opened not his mouth.
• Ver. 20. The bruised reed. The prophet here shews the mildness of our Saviour, who, though he could have broken them like a reed, and as a bruised reed, yet would not do it; and though he could have easily extinguished their rage and anger, yet he bore with it for a while, with singular clemency, till he should send forth judgment unto victory, i.e. till justice shall have appeared triumphant, till Christ shall have fulfilled all things, and raised his most illustrious trophy: till the Gentiles shall have placed their confidence in his most adorable name, and the Jews have no plea, notwithstanding their unparalleled obduracy, to make in reply. S. Chrys. hom. xli. — Judgment unto victory. S. Jerom and S. Hilary expound these words in conformity with their interpretation of the two foregoing verses, as follows: “The Lord will cherish and support the infirm and weak in this time of penance and probation, inviting them to greater strength, and light, and perfect charity, till the power of death be taken away, till he return to judge the world, when his judgment shall be victorious; though, in the mean while, it often may appear suppressed, and even subdued by the obstinate will of man.”  But the exposition, most conformable to the literal sense of the prophet, is: he will support the weak by his mildness, until it come to pass that his judgment, which he came to announce to the Gentiles, be led to victory, by his truth becoming universally triumphant over the world, and in his name all nations shall hope.  Jansenius. — Thus will he bear with the little light and virtue of his enemies, till the bright light of his faith, and the warmth and strength of his grace, obtain in their hearts, and triumph over every opposition.  A.
• Ver. 21. In his name the Gentiles. Here are two words differing from those used by the prophet: in the Hebrew text we have, in his law the islands shall hope: probably the oversight of the amanuensis substituting onoma for nomw; the latter variation is of still less moment, as the prophets understand by islands, countries far removed; and also the poet,
• Et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos.
• And, Mittam ad insulas longe ad eos, qui non auderunt de me. Isaias, lx. 9, and lxvi. 19.