1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Samuel 16:7

And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, *but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

Psalm 7:10.

Rejected, or not chosen. (Menochius) --- God had positively rejected this eldest son, as his pride seems to have been the greatest, 1 Kings 17:28. (Haydock) --- Heart. This is one of God's perfections. Glorified saints see man's heart in his light, for their own and our advantage, (St. Gregory, Mor. 12:11.; St. Augustine) as the prophets have sometimes done, 3 Kings xiv. (Worthington)