Thus says the LORD of hosts;
If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand here.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Judge. The high priests were at the head till the Machabees. (Josephus, Antiquities xi. 4., and xx. 8.)
Yet the nation was, (Calmet) till Simon, (Haydock) always dependent; and the judges were under foreign kings or governors. (Calmet)
Give thee Angels to attend and assist thee. (Challoner)
They are promised to help the pastors of the Church. (Worthington)
They shall give information, ver. 9., and Exodus xxiii. 20. (Calmet)
Of them. Septuagint, "who shall converse in the midst of these who stand: "(Haydock) thy children shall succeed in the pontificate. (Theod.)