Francis Patrick Kenrick

p. " They shall come and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done this." This, except the last clause, is the translation of St. Jerome. It may be underistoed of the messengers of Christ, who went forth to announce Ilis mercy, truth and justice to the nations from which a new people was to be formed, showing them that God had done what He had promised by the prophets. Pr. P. " whom the Lord hath made." The heavens are not here mentioned in the text, ■hut this reading has probably arisen from Ps. xlix. 6. Ps. xcvi. 6. Some ancient copies oftheVulgato have not this addition.