They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Storm. Hebrew and Septuagint, "in youth "(Haydock) being suddenly cut off, without having deplored the sins of their youth. (Calmet)
Effeminate. Hebrew, "the consecrated "to prostitution. Eliu compares those who will not attend unto God, to the most infamous characters. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "and let their life be taken away by the angels "(Haydock) of death, chap. xxxiii. 23. (Calmet)
He may allude to the impure Sodomites. (Menochius)
62. For they were seeming to live as if in calm, when they were taking care to rejoice in the credit of holiness. But their soul, which used to rejoice in the fatal tranquillity of human praise, dies by a sudden tempest. For most commonly an unexpected tempest suddenly produces a change in all the calm blandishment of the air, and danger cannot be avoided, inasmuch as it could not be foreseen. Whence hypocrites, who neglect to watch over their conduct, are said to die in a tempest. For the sudden whirlwind of an inward shock casts them forth hence, whom the pride of outward applause exalts on high; and, while they embrace in their praise that which they are not, they suddenly find in vengeance what they are. But it is well said by Solomon, As silver is proved in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace, so is a man proved by the mouth of him that praiseth him. [Prov. 17, 3] For praise of one’s self tortures the just, but elates the wicked. But while it tortures, it purifies the just; an...
