Isaias 48:10
Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce excoxi te, sed non quasi argentum ; elegi te in camino paupertatis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἰδοὺ πέπρακά σε οὐχ ἕνεκεν ἀργυρίου· ἐξειλάμην δέ σε ἐκ καμίνου πτωχείας·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִנֵּ֥ה צְרַפְתִּ֖יךָ וְלֹ֣א בְכָ֑סֶף בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָ בְּכ֥וּר עֹֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Poverty, at Babylon. I have not treated thee with the utmost rigour, nor attempted to render thee free from every imperfection. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "Lo, I have sold thee, but not for silver; I have snatched thee from the," &c. (Haydock)
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
St Augustine Book X, Chapter XXXVII
60. By these temptations, O Lord, are we daily tried; yea, unceasingly are we tried. Our daily “furnace” is the human tongue. And in this respect also dost Thou command us to be continent. Give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt. Regarding this matter, Thou knowest the groans of my heart, and the rivers of mine eyes. For I am not able to ascertain how far I am clean of this plague, and I stand in great fear of my “secret faults,” which Thine eyes perceive, though mine do not. For in other kinds of temptations I have some sort of power of examining myself; but in this, hardly any. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 10.8-13
But, one says, “the wisdom of the poor man is despised.” ( Eccles. ix. 16 .) And again another says, “Give me neither riches nor poverty” ( Prov. xxx. 8 ), and, “Deliver me from the furnace of poverty.” (See Isa. xlviii. 10 .) And again, if riches and poverty are from the Lord, how can either poverty or riches be an evil? Why then were these things said? They were said under the Old [Covenant], where there was much account made of wealth, where there was great contempt of poverty, where the one was a curse and the other a blessing. But now it is no longer so.
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How the poor and the rich should be admonished
( Admonition 3.) Differently to be admonished are the poor and the rich: for to the former we ought to offer the solace of comfort against tribulation, but in the latter to induce fear as against elation. For to the poor one it is said by the Lord through the prophet, Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded ( Isai. liv. 4 ). And not long after, soothing her, He says, O thou poor little one, tossed with tempest ( Ibid. 11 ). And again He comforts her, saying, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty ( Ibid. xlviii. 10 ). But, on the other hand, Paul says to his disciple concerning the rich, Charge the rich of this world, that they be not high-minded nor trust in the uncertainty of their riches ( 1 Tim. vi. …