1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Ezekiel 16:49 | *Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and to the poor. Genesis 19:24. | Sodom, etc. That is, these were the steps by which the Sodomites came to fall into those abominations for which they were destroyed. For pride, gluttony, and idleness, are the high road to all kinds of lust; especially when they are accompanied with a neglect of the works of mercy. (Challoner) --- These crimes alone are great enough; (Luke 16:19.) and the prophets never accuse the Jews of unnatural lust. Hence Ezechiel takes no notice of it here, as he probably refers to the manners of the Moabites, etc., who were then living, Isaias 16:6. (Calmet) --- Abundance and idleness produce crimes; temperance and labour bring forth good fruit. (Worthington) |