Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.2 These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation.3 Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach.4 We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.5 Behold how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
Then. At the day of judgment. The just and the reprobate know each other’s condition, Luke xvi. 20. — Labours. Defrauding them of their wages, (Leviticus xix. 13.) or plundering them. Septuagint, “despised, (Calmet) or frustrated his labours.” (Haydock) — Worldlings deride those who strive to obtain the goods of eternity, (Calmet) and think they labour in vain. (Worthington)
Within. Or among themselves. — Repenting. In despair. — Reproach. We diverted ourselves with turning them to ridicule. (Calmet) — This change of sentiment (Haydock) proceeds not from the love of virtue, and is useless. (Worthington)
I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman.2 Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.†3 Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you.4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.†5 I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and case him into the fire, and be burneth.†7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you.
(ix. de Trin) He rises in haste to perform the sacrament of His final passion in the flesh, (such is His desire to fulfil His Father’s commandment:) and therefore takes occasion to unfold the mystery of His assumption of His flesh, whereby He supports us, as the vine doth its branches: I am the true vine.
(ix. de Trin) But He wholly separates this humiliation in the flesh from the form of the Paternal Majesty, by setting forth the Father as the diligent Husbandman of this vine: And My Father is the Husbandman.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)