Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
A lintel of surfeiting. That is, a door into which they shall seek to enter, to glut themselves with blood: but they shall stumble, and fall like men stupified with wine. It seems to allude to the times of Antiochus, and to the victories of the Machabees. (Challoner)
Yet it indirectly relates to the last siege of Jerusalem, and to Jesus Christ establishing his Church. Hebrew, "a cup of drowsiness "or trembling. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "as courts (or thresholds; prothura) shaken. "(Haydock)
Jerusalem first drank the cup herself; and then under the Machabees, made others suffer.
Juda. Never before Epiphanes had the Jews fought against their brethren. Then the apostates became most terrible, 1 Machabees i. 55., and ii. 7, 19. (Calmet)
Thus none persecute the Catholic faith more than those who have perfidiously abandoned it. (Haydock)
When the gospel began to be preached, the obstinate Jews opposed it, Acts iv. (Worthington)
A lintel of surfeiting: That is, a door into which they shall seek to enter, to glut themselves with blood; but they shall stumble, and fall like men stupefied with wine. It seems to allude to the times of Antiochus, and to the victories of the Machabees.
