Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
, St. Augustine; Calmet) or baptized; (St. Justin Martyr) or rather rising again, (Acts xiii. 33.) and born from all eternity, Hebrews i. 5. This shows him superior to the angels. The prophet had both these events in view. Eternity is always the same. (Berthier; Bossuet; Du Hamel)
He to whom God may speak thus to-day, at all times, must be God also. (Robertson, Lexic.) (John v. 25.)
To this Socinians can make no reply, without giving up the Epistle to the Hebrews or allowing that the apostle's arguments were inconclusive. (Berthier)
The same text may thus have many literal senses. (Du Hamel)
The eternal birth seems here to be the chief, as from that source the nativity, baptism, priesthood, (Hebrews xv. 5.) and miraculous resurrection of Christ, necessarily spring. (Haydock)
Raged. Hebrew, "come together with tumult "(Symmachus) "loud cries "like a furious army, composed of several nations. (Haydock)
Why have the Philistines, assembled to obstruct my reign? or (Calmet) "why will the Gentiles be troubled, and the tribes meditate vain things? "(St. Jerome) Pilate, Herod, and the chiefs of the Jews, met to destroy the Messias; though, on other occasions, they were at variance. (Haydock)
Their attempts were fruitless. Their false witnesses could not agree. (Calmet)
The priests had, in vain, meditated on the law, since they had not discovered Him who was the end of it. (St. Athanasius;)
People of Israel, Acts iv. 27. (Menochius)
When he came into the world, He was manifested as God and man. And it is easy to perceive the man in Him, when He hungers and shows exhaustion, and is weary and thirsty, and withdraws in fear, and is in prayer and in grief, and sleeps on a boat's pillow, and entreats the removal of the cup of suffering, and sweats in an agony, and is strengthened by an angel, and betrayed by a Judas, and mocked by Caiaphas, and set at nought by Herod, and scourged by Pilate, and derided by the soldiers, and nailed to the tree by the Jews, and with a cry commits His spirit to His Father, and drops His head and gives up the ghost, and has His side pierced with a spear, and is wrapped in linen and laid in a tomb, and is raised by the Father on the third day. And the divine in Him, on the other hand, is equally manifest, when He is worshipped by angels, and seen by shepherds, and waited for b, y Simeon, and testified of by Anna, and inquired after by wise men, and pointed out by a star, and at a marriage m...
