In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Themselves. The band of robbers had marked out their prey. (Haydock)
Hebrew, "In the day time they lie concealed, and know not the light. "(Calmet)
Septuagint, or rather Theodotion, from whom ver. 15 to 17., is taken, "They have sealed themselves up during the day. "If we should read eautois, Hebrew lamo, we might translate as well "they marked them out for themselves. "(Haydock)
The adulterer had made is his arrangement with the faithless woman, when he should break into the house. (Menochius)
76. For what is there here denoted by the title of ‘houses’ but consciences, wherein we dwell, when we do any thing, busying ourselves with it? Whence it is said to one on being healed, Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee [Luke 8, 39]; i.e. henceforth, secure from the evil habit of sin, turn back to thy conscience, and be thou roused into the voice of preaching.’ And so when in the present world the righteous are brightened by the day of prosperity, to those persons the leaders of false tenets are afraid to recommend what is wrong. But they search out counsels, with all care they await the abasement of their prosperity, that in the darkness of adversity they may by their persuading dig through the minds of those, to whom whilst living prosperously they never presumed to speak wrong things, whom as soon as they see under adversity they rise up and maintain, that no otherwise saving in desert of their sins those suffer such things; because lov...
