The fact that the unborn are, indeed, children—and that we ourselves were in our mother’s wombs—comes out in a particularly touching way in Scripture, such as when the Psalms declare: O Lord, you have searched me and known me! . . . For thou didst form my inward parts, thou dids...
the prophetsIsaiasand Jeremias collected their respective prophetic utterances. The words of II Par., xxix, 30, lead us to suppose that in the days of KingEzechiasthere either existed or originated a collection of thePsalmsof David and of Asaph. From Prov., xxv, 1, one may infer that ab...
from economic challenges to mass migration from other countries. On the religious front, the Catholic Church has decided to canonize another saint. However, this one differs
“It is not, then, without reason that the poets call him [Hercules] a cruel wretch and a nefarious scoundrel. It were tedious to recount his adulteries of all sorts, and debauching of boys. For your gods did not even abstain from boys, one having loved Hylas, another Hyacinthus, anoth...
“My resolution is, to read the ancients, to try everything, to hold fast what is good, and not to recede from the faith of the Catholic Church.” Jerome, To Minervius & Alexander, Epistle 119 (A.D. 406). “But those reasons which I have here given, I have either gathered from ...
text- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon" Gabriel- (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God Noachian deluge,Noah and the Flood,Noah's flood,the Flood- (Biblical) the great deluge...
Josephus, Siracides, Philo, the New Testament, all refer to the Hagiographa in such a way as to induce the belief that it comprised only the poetical portions of the Old Testament — the psalms, hymns, and songs; while in all the catalogues of the Old- Testament writers given by the ...
From the standpoint of biblical exegesis the Roman Catholic interpretation cannot find support. As Oscar Cullmann has stated:He who proceeds without prejudice, on the basis of exegesis and only on this basis, cannot seriously conclude that Jesus here had in mind successors of Peter…On exegetical ...
Catholic Church?” the heretic has the answer ready, “For it is written”; and forthwith he produces a thousand testimonies, a thousand examples, a thousand authorities from the Law, from the Psalms, from the Apostles, from the Prophets, by means of which, interpreted on a new and wrong...
trusting God to free Him from death. Now, of course, the psalms become our prayers, too, as members of Christ’s Mystical Body. We, along with David and Jesus, can rejoice over our own escape from death and corruption. Their words become ours: “Lord, You will show us the path of ...