Father Noel Alexandre's Literal Commentary on 1 Peter 1:3-9

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 Translated by Qwen. 1 Pet 1:3–4: The Blessing of Regeneration "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you." We ought to give immortal thanks to God, to offer Him continually the sacrifice of praise, on account of His infinite goodness toward His elect. It belongs to the Eternal Father to choose the members of His Son, the adopted children who are co-heirs with the Only-Begotten. Let us seek no other reason for this election than mercy, whose greatness cannot be worthily expressed in human words. He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. Us, unworthy sinners, His enemies, deserving of eternal punishments, He has regenerated through Baptism; and, the oldness which we had contracted from Adam in our first birth being abolished, He ...
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Father Petrus Schegg's Commentary on Isaiah 58:7-10

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Is 58:7: Break your bread for the hungry. Take the poor and homeless into your house. Where you see a naked person, clothe him, and do not despise your flesh. When Israel does this, then its helper will not delay. A friendly dawn will break over the people, a sunny day will follow.

Commentary on verse 7: Your flesh—first, blood relatives; then, fellow countrymen; finally, fellow human beings in general.

Is 58:8: Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly sprout; before you will go your righteousness, and the Lord's glory will close the procession.

Commentary on verse 8: "Citius" (more quickly sprout)—faster, namely, than would lie in the course of nature; the comparison is often omitted in Latin and yet the comparative is used. "Colliget" (gather)—here, to close the procession; the image is taken from the shepherd who, going behind the flock, gathers them and holds them together (The image here is probably pastoral, but it could be military; the idea seems to be that God, as the "rear guard" [NABRE, ESV, RSV will "gather up" [אָסַף], or keep you behind righteousness the way the shepherd bring up the rear would keep the sheep oriented behind the shepherd in the lead). "Your righteousness will go before you"—that is, will break a path for you, level the ways, remove the obstacles. This righteousness of Israel is God the Righteous One, who creates justice for His people and justifies them—the abstract for the concrete: your Righteous One. Thus it is explained from the parallel: "the glory of the Lord." God as the Glorious and Righteous One will lead Israel. The exile is represented under the image of darkness and sickness. Deliverance from it is therefore called the rising of the light, of the dawn, and the healing of the wound.  

Is 58:9: Then you will call and the Lord will hear; you will cry out and He will say, "Here I am!" When you remove from your midst the chain, and cease to point the finger and to speak what is not useful.

Commentary on verse 9: "Chain"—every oppression and act of violence. "Pointing the finger"—scorn and mockery. "Speaking what is not useful"—litotes for every evil, wicked speech. The latter also refers to one's neighbor, so that particularly slander is meant. Thus we see word, gesture, and deed brought together.

Is 58:10: When you give to the hungry what you desired, and satisfy the oppressed soul, then your light rises in the darkness and your right will be like midday.

Commentary on verse 10: "Animam tuam" (your soul)—for that from which your soul, your life, sustains itself, or that which your soul, your life, desires, what it needs. Jerome takes it in the broader sense also of every spiritual assistance: "let us give to the hungry not, as said above in v. 7, our bread, but our soul, so that we may help him in whatever we can." Yet the parallel verse-member "anim repleveris" (you have filled the soul) may not speak for this. The soul thirsts and hungers; an oppressed soul is therefore one that is starving, languishing, hungry. As a result of the rising of your light, your darkness will become like midday brightness; all your sorrow, misery, and grief will be transformed into sun-bright joy and delight.

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