The psalm's verse numbering differs between the modern lectionary and the Douay-Rheims this library hosts, so the text isn't matched verse-for-verse here yet.
Responsorial Psalm — Psalm 98:5-6, 7-8, 9
Ps 97:5-6
Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the voice of a psalm:6 With long trumpets, and sound of comet. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king:7 Let the sea be moved and the fulness thereof: the world and they that dwell therein.8 The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together9 At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.
It is prophesied here that the coming of the Lord will be the cause of great benefits to the nations, which have been proved to have actually accrued to them, through the manifestation of our Savior. For of a truth from then and not before the new song of the new covenant has been sung among all people, and his wonders have been known and heard by all people through the written Gospels. And salvation also, by the resurrection of the Lord from the dead, has been revealed to all nations, and the true righteousness, by which it has been clearly proved that God is not the God of the Jews only, but of the Gentiles. "Since there is one God," in the words of the holy apostle, "who will judge the circumcised from their faith, and the uncircumcised through faith." And the words "for he, comes to judge the earth," might refer also to his second coming."
For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.9 Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.†10 For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.11 For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but curiously meddling.†12 Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.
The prophets were His servants, and foresaw Him by the Spirit, and waited for Him as their Teacher, and expected Him as their Lord and Saviour, saying, "He will come and save us." Let us therefore no longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner, and rejoice in days of idleness; for "he that does not work, let him not eat." For say the [holy] oracles, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread." But let every one of you keep the Sabbath after a spiritual manner, rejoicing in meditation on the law, not in relaxation of the body, admiring the workmanship of God, and not eating things prepared the day before, nor using lukewarm drinks, and walking within a prescribed space, nor finding delight in dancing and plaudits which have no sense in them. And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord's Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days [of the week]. Looking forward to this, the prophet declared, "To the end, for the eighth day," on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, "whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things," who are "lovers of pleasure, and not lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof."
And some saying of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said:6 These things which you see, the days will come in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down.7 And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass?8 Who said: Take heed you be not seduced; for many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and the time is at hand: go ye not therefore after them.9 And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to pass; but the end is not yet presently.10 Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.11 And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there shall be great signs.12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name’s sake.†13 And it shall happen unto you for a testimony.14 Lay it up therefore into your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.16 And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends; and some of you they will put to death.17 And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake.18 But a hair of your head shall not perish.19 In your patience you shall possess your souls.†
How beautiful was every thing relating to the structure of the temple, history informs us, and there are yet preserved remains of it, enough to instruct us in what was once the character of the buildings. But our Lord proclaimed to those that were wondering at the building of the temple, that there should not be left in it one stone upon another. For it was meet that that place, because of the presumption of its worshippers, should suffer every kind of desolation.
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