Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

P. "How long will ye imagine mischief against a man." St. Jerome : " Vsquequo insidiamini C(m- tra virum ? Others translate it " Why do ye cry out ?" The shout of assailants is meant. Kcililer adopts this meaning, and approTets of the translation of the Septuagint as identical.

The comparisons are founded on theii- idea of the prince, whose overthrow seemed to them easy and certain. St. Jerome puts them in the nominative, so that he likens them to a leaning wall that threa- tens to bury the bystanders beneath its ruins.

p_ "Trust in Him at all times, ye people." This is the translation of St. Jerome.

P. "Surely men of low degree are vanity." St. Jerome calls them "sons of Adam." Plebeians are sometimes full of pretension, without possessing real merit.

p, "Men of high degree are a lie." Nobles are often false: their boasting is vain. St. Jerome con- nects with this clause : " in deceitful scales."

p^ II To lyQ iai(j jq tijg balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." The high and low are fri- volous and vain. It is a strong expression of human vanity. The Vulgate represents them as combin- ing to^deceive, but proving false and deficient. St. Jerome adopts the same view : " they act fraudulently together."