Ezechiel 48:35
Its circumference was eighteen thousand: and the name of the city from that day, The Lord is there.
In the palace
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Per circuitum, decem et octo millia : et nomen civitatis ex illa die, Dominus ibidem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κύκλωμα, δέκα καὶ ὀκτὼ χιλιάδες. καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς πόλεως, ἀφ᾽ ἧς ἂν ἡμέρας γένηται, ἔσται τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς. ⸆
- Hebrew (WLC)
- סָבִ֕יב שְׁמֹנָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר אָ֑לֶף וְשֵׁם הָעִ֥יר מִיּ֖וֹם יְהוָ֥ה שָֽׁמָּה
Haydock's commentary
The Lord is there. This name is here given to the city; that is, the Church of Christ; because the Lord is always with her till the end of the world, Matthew xxviii. 20. (Challoner)
He always adorns the Church triumphant [in heaven]; (Apocalypse xxii.) but has deserted the synagogue, Matthew xxiii. 38. (Worthington)
Jerusalem certainly never bore this name, nor is it requisite that she should, if the prophecy had been literally understood. It would suffice, if she could justly claim such a prerogative. See Isaias vii. 14., and 2 Kings xii. 25. The Church of Christ possesses God for ever. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian The Five Books Against Marcion, Christ's Millennial and Heavenly Glory in Company with His Saints
Yes, certainly, you say, I do hope from Him that which amounts in itself to a proof of the diversity (of Christs), God’s kingdom in an everlasting and heavenly possession. Besides, your Christ promises to the Jews their primitive condition, with the recovery of their country; and after this life’s course is over, repose in Hades in Abraham’s bosom. Oh, most excellent God, when He restores in amnesty what He took away in wrath! Oh, what a God is yours, who both wounds and heals, creates evil and makes peace! Oh, what a God, that is merciful even down to Hades! I shall have something to say about Abraham’s bosom in the proper place. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).