Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Lawgivers. Hebrew more, "a master. "In Chaldean, "a sovereign. "(Grotius) Septuagint, "what potentate is against him? "(Haydock)
What art thou, to dare thus to resist him? (Calmet)
St. Gregory (xxvii. 1.) explains this as a prediction of Christ, "our singular lawgiver. "God is most able to punish transgressors, and willing to reward those who obey his laws. (Worthington)
3. As if he said plainly, He, Who will appear humble in weakness, remains lofty in strength, Paul also witnessing this, who says, For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God. [2 Cor. 13, 4] Of Whom it is rightly subjoined, None is like Him among lawgivers. Moses was a lawgiver, Joshua a lawgiver, the Prophets lawgivers also. We can term all lawgivers, who, we know, admonish the people rightly from the Law. But there is no one like to this Mediator among lawgivers. For they, having been called by grace from their sins, return to innocence, and, from what they have experienced in themselves, bring back others by their preaching. But our Redeemer is Man without sin, a Son without adoption, and has never committed any thing which He has disapproved. And He so speaks to the world by His Manhood, as yet to be still the Lord of the same world before all ages by His Godhead. Hence certain persons believed that the Mediator between God and men was like the la...
