As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.24 I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope.25 In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.26 Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits.27 For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.28 My memory is unto everlasting generations.29 They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.30 He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.31 They that explain me shall have life everlasting.
I, &c. Grabe restores this verse, and, instead of the next, has, “but I am given to all my children, being born myself for ever, to those who are specified by him. ( 26. ) Come,” &c. (Haydock) — The text seems to be corrupt. (Calmet)
Thirst. Without being ever disgusted, John iv. 13. (Calmet) — Experience of carnal delights is quite the reverse. (St. Gregory, hom. xxxvi. Ev.) — The more grace a person has, the more he desireth and receiveth from God. (Worthington)
They. Greek, “all these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, the law which Moses gave unto us, an inheritance to the synagogues of Jacob.” Grabe puts in a different character from the Complutensian, “Lose not strength in the Lord, but stick to him, that he may strengthen you. The Lord Almighty is the only God, and there is no other Saviour.” Then follows, (ver. 35.) “who,” &c. (Haydock) — Everlasting. Provided his life correspond with his doctrine. No occupation can be more glorious. (Calmet) — Let thy Scriptures be my chaste delights: let me not be deceived in them, nor deceive others by them. (St. Augustine, Confessions xi. 2.) (Calmet) (Daniel xii.) (Menochius)
And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck.28 But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.
(Hom. 44. in Matt.) In this answer He sought not to disown His mother, but to shew that His birth would have profited her nothing, had she not been really fruitful in works and faith. But if it profited Mary nothing that Christ derived His birth from her, without the inward virtue of her heart, much less will it avail us to have a virtuous father, brother, or son, while we ourselves are strangers to virtue.
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.)