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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33

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Verse 1

Little. Small expenses, often repeated, will ruin an estate, (Haydock) and the neglect of venial sins is of the most dangerous consequence. (Calmet) --- The best way to avoid great faults, is to guard against small ones. (Worthington)

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Verse 2

Off. From God (Calmet) and religion. See Genesis xix. 33., and 2 Kings xi. 1., and Osee iv. 11.

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Verse 3

Number. Of the living. (Haydock) --- The venereal disease seems to be described.

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Verse 4

Credit. To harlots, 1 Corinthians vi. 18. (Calmet)

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Verse 5

Hateth. Greek, "resisteth pleasure, shall crown his life. He who guardeth his tongue, shall live without contention: and he," &c. (Haydock)

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Verse 6

He. Greek omits this explication of the preceding verse.

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Verse 8

Not. Only to God and his minister. Friends do not require to be informed of such things. Greek, "disclose not the conduct of others." --- Be. Greek, "be not." Do not boast of sins which thou hast not committed, (Calmet) as St. Augustine did before his conversion. (Haydock) --- But the Vulgate seems preferable. (Calmet) --- In ordinary conversation to reveal our faults would be dangerous, but not in confession, or in religious orders, for advancement in virtue. (Worthington)

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Verse 9

Hate thee. Whether thou hast spoken of thy own or of others’ faults, he will distrust thee.

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Verse 10

Burst thee. Like poison, or as new wine (Calmet) does a leathern bottle. (Haydock) --- This expression well implies the eagerness which some manifest to divulge a secret injurious to their neighbour. (Calmet)

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Verse 13

Understood. Greek, "done it." (Haydock) --- For want of coming to a timely explanation, many friendships are broken, owing to groundless surmises.

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Verse 15

Committed. Or "a false report," commissio. (Calmet) --- Greek, "a foolish calumny." (Haydock) --- Monere et moneri proprium est veræ amicitiæ. (Cicero)

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Verse 17

Him. Gentle means must be first tried, Matthew xviii. 15., and Galatians vi. 1. (Haydock)

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Verse 18

Place. Love true piety. (Calmet) --- Disposition. Greek, "complying with." (Haydock) --- The Complutensian has several additions which are not in the Roman edition. (Calmet) --- Grabe inserts them. But it is not necessary to mark here every such variation. (Haydock)

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Verse 22

Unjust. St. James (iii. 15.) describes true and false wisdom, Romans xvi. 19. (Calmet)

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Verse 23

Wickedly. Greek, "in black," (Haydock) wearing the robes of mourning. (Grotius)

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Verse 24

And. Greek, "there," &c. (Haydock) --- The hypocrite abstains from exterior crimes, only through fear. (Calmet) --- False pretence of piety, is hypocrisy; and it is wrong for a superior to reveal his secret faults to his subjects. Reason must direct. (Worthington)

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Verse 26

Countenance. Yet this is not always the case, ver. 28. We may sometimes condemn a person unjustly, on such outward appearances. (Calmet)

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Verse 28

Lying. Greek, "a reproof which is not seemly; and there is one," &c. (Haydock)

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Verse 32

CHAPTER XIX.

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Bibliographical Information
Haydock, George Leo. "Commentary on Wisdom of Solomon 19". "Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/hcc/wisdom-of-solomon-19.html. 1859.

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