desert, Jerusalem is desolate.- the singing bird in the window, Is 64, 10 the raven on the upper post, for The House of our Holiness, I will consume her strength.and of our Glory, where our So 2, 13-14

fathers praised Thee, is burnt Arms shall stand on his part, with fire, and all our lovely and they shall defile the Sancthings are turned into ruins.-tuary of strength, and shall take Is 64, 11 away the Continual Sacrifice : The strong city shall be deso- and they shall place there the late, the Beautiful City shall be abomination unto desolation.forsaken, and shall be left as a Da 11, 31 wilderness there the calf shall : Thou hast profaned His Sancfeed, and there shall he lie down, tuary on the earth.-Thou hast and shall consume its branches. broken down all His hedges.-Its harvests shall be destroyed All that passed by the way have with drought, women shall come robbed Him. He has become a and teach it for it is not a wise reproach to His neighbours.people, therefore He that made Thou hast made all His enemies it, shall not have mercy on it: to rejoice, and thou hast cast and He that formed it, shall not His Throne down to the ground. spare it.-Is 27, 10-11 -Thou hast shortened the days Thorns and nettles shall grow of His time: thou hast covered up in its Houses, and the thistle Him with confusion.-Ps 88, 40-43, in the fortresses thereof and it 45-46

:

shall be the habitation of dragons, The carrying away of the and the pasture of ostriches.- Sacred Vessels, see Je 52, 17-23 And demons and monsters shall THE DESTRUCTION OF CONVENTS. meet, and the hairy ones shall You have cast out the women cry out one to another, there of My people from their Houses, hath the lamia lain down, and in which they took delight you found rest for herself.-There have taken My praise for ever hath the ericius had its hole, and from their children.-Mi2, 9 brought up its young ones, and] Names given to desecrated hath dug round about, and cher- Sanctuaries :ished them in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another.-Is 34, 13-15

He will make the Beautiful City a wilderness, and as a place not passable, and as a desert.And flocks shall lie down in the midst thereof, all the beasts of the nations and the bittern and the urchin shall lodge in the threshold thereof: the voice of

:

1. Sanctuaries laid waste.-
Am 7, 9

2. Pavilions destroyed.-Je4, 20
3. A Deserted House.-Ag 1,9
4. Barns destroyed.-JI 1, 17
5. Storehouses broken down.
-Л1, 17

6. A Ruinous heap of stones.-
Is 17, 1

7. A Desert.-Is 64, 10

8. Desolate Cities.-Is 61, 4

4.

-THE SIMULATION OF THE TRUE PRIESTHOOD.
THE MAGNITUDE AND CONSEQUENCE OF THIS SIN.

3 K 12, 28- Finding out a device He they believed him.

30

2 P 13,9

10

2P26, 18

made two golden calves, and He commanded Altars to 1 M 1,50
said to them: Go ye up no be built, and temples, and
more to Jerusalem: Behold idols, to the end that they
thy gods, O Israel, who should forget the Law, and
brought thee out of the land should change all the justifi-
of Egypt.-And he set the one cations of God.
in Bethel, and the other in

Thou hast no healing medi- Je 30, 13

Dan-And this thing be- cines.
came an occasion of sin: for As the dream of them Ps 72, 20
the people went to adore the that awake, O Lord: so in
calf as far as Dan.

Thy City. Thou shalt bring
You have cast out the their image to nothing.
Priests of the Lord, the sons Cursed be he that maketh Dt 27, 18
of Aaron, and the Levites: the blind to wander out of the
and you have made you way: and all the people shall
priests, like all the nations say: Amen.

Mi 7, 3

of the earth: whosoever The evil of their hands
cometh and consecrateth his they call Good.
hand with a bullock of the The Lord shall send upon Dt 28, 20

herd, and with seven rams, thee famine and hunger for

is made a priest of those who thy most wicked inventions,
are no gods.-But the Lord by which thou hast forsaken

is our God, Whom we forsake Me.

not, and the Priests who Thus saith the Lord God: Ez 13,3-5
minister to the Lord are the Wo to the foolish prophets
sons of Aaron, and the that follow their own spirit,
Levites are in their order. and see nothing.-Thy pro-

He withstood the king, phets, O Israel, were like
and said: It doth not belong foxes in the deserts.-You
to thee, Ozias, to burn in- have not gone up to face the
cense to the Lord, but to the enemy, nor have you set up
Priests, that is, to the sons a wall for the House of
of Aaron, who are conse- Israel, to stand in battle in
crated for this ministry: go the day of the Lord.

out of the Sanctuary, do not They see vain things, and Ez 13,6 despise for this thing shall they foretel lies, saying:

by the Lord God.

not be accounted to thy glory The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them; Nu 16, 10 Did He make thee [Core] and they have persisted to and all thy brethren the sons confirm what they have said.

1 M1, 31

of Levi to approach unto Have you not seen a vain Ez 13, 7-8
Him that you should chal- vision, and spoken a lying
lenge to yourselves the divination? and you say:

Priesthood also ?

The Lord saith: whereas I He spoke to them peace- have not spoken.—Therefore able words in deceit, and thus saith the Lord God:

Ez 13, 9

Is 59, 3

Is 59, 12

15

So 1,9

Ps 77, 58

1 K 2, 17

Because you have spoken was exceeding great before
vain things, and have seen the Lord: because they with-
lies, therefore behold I come drew men from the Sacrifice
against you, saith the Lord of the Lord.
God.

Behold I will contend with Je 2, 35
And My hand shall be thee in judgment, because
upon the prophets that see thou hast said: I have not
vain things, and that divine sinned.
lies they shall not be in the

Thou shalt eat, but shall Mi 6, 14

counsel of My people, nor not be filled: and thy humi-
shall they be written in the liation shall be in the midst

writing of the House of of thee.

Israel neither shall they Amasias said to Amos:-Am 7, 12enter into the land of Israel, Prophesy not again any 14, 16-17 and you shall know that I more in Bethel : because it

am the Lord God.

is the king's sanctuary,

Your hands are defiled and it is the house of the
with blood, and your fingers kingdom.-And Amos an-
with iniquity; your lips have swered and said to Amasias :
spoken lies, and your tongue-Now hear thou the word
uttereth iniquity.
of the Lord: Thou sayest

Our wicked doings are Thou shalt not prophesy
with us, and we have known against Israel, and thou shalt
our iniquities,-In sinning not drop thy word upon the
and lying against the Lord: house of the idol.-Therefore
and we have turned away so thus saith the Lord: Thou
that we went not after our shalt die in a polluted land.
God, but spoke calumny and
transgression: we have con-
ceived and uttered from the

They provoked Him with Ps 105, 29 their inventions.

They went disloyally after Ps 105, 39

heart, words of falsehood. their own inventions.
And judgment is turned

What man soever shall Ex 30, 38

away backward, and justice make The Like, he shall

hath stood far off: because perish out of His people.

Truth hath fallen down in Their idols have caused Am2,4
the street, and equity could them to err.
not come in.-And Truth
hath been forgotten.

You that rejoice in a thing Am 6, 14
of naught you that say:
I will visit in that day Have we not taken unto us
upon every one that entereth horns by our own strength?
arrogantly over the thres- Behold I will raise up a na-
hold: them that fill the tion against you, saith the
House of the Lord their Lord.
God with iniquity and
deceit.

Their Altars are as heaps Os 12, 11 in the furrows of the field.

They provoked Him to The iniquity of Ephraim is Os 13, 12 anger on their hills and bound up, his sin is hidden. moved Him to jealousy with their graven things.

The sin of the young men

They have put no differ- Ez 22, 26 ence between Holy and profane: nor distinguished

Mi 3, 1112

Za 10,2

Je 46, 11

Os 10, 1

Os 10, 13

Ps 43, 21

22

Is 28, 15

Ps 54, 16

Ps 56, 7

Ps 57, 9

Ma 3, 5

32

between the polluted and the Send to all them of the cap- Je 29, 31-
Clean. I was profaned in tivity, saying: Thus saith
the midst of them.
the Lord to Semeias the
The prophets leaned upon Nehelamite: Because Seme-
the Lord, saying: Is not the ias hath prophesied to you,
Lord in the midst of us? and I sent him not: and hath
no evil shall come upon us. caused you to trust in a lie :
-Therefore because of you-Therefore thus saith the
the mountain of the Temple Lord: Behold I will visit
shall be as the high places in upon Semeias the Nehela-
the forest.
mite, and upon his seed: he
The idols have spoken shall not have a man to sit
what was unprofitable, and in the midst of this people,
the diviners have seen a lie, and he shall not see the good
and the dreamers have spoke that I will do to My people,
vanity': they comforted in saith the Lord: because he
vain: therefore they were hath spoken treason against
led away as a flock: they the Lord!
shall be afflicted, because The spiritual man was
they have no Shepherd.

In vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.

mad.

The prophet is become a snare of ruin.

Os 9,7

Os 9, 8

They design to extinguish Es 14, 9 the glory of Thy Temple and

According to the plenty of
his land he hath abounded Altar.
with idols.

They gather the vintage Jb 24,6

You have eaten the fruit of his vineyard whom by
of lying.
violence they have op-

If we have spread forth pressed.
our hands to a strange God: Their Land hath been Je 51, 5
-Shall not God search out filled with sin against the
these things?

Holy One of Israel.

11

When the overflowing Who hath formed a god Is 44, 10scourge shall pass through, and made a graven thing it shall not come upon us that is profitable for nofor we have placed our hope thing? Behold all the

in lies, and by falsehood we partakers thereof shall be
are protected.

There were false prophets 2 Pt 2, 1 And I will come to you in among the people, even as judgment, and will be a there shall be among you lying speedy witness against false teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition.

swearers.

5.-SIMULATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD FORETOLD

BY OUR LORD. HIS DIVINE WARNINGS.

Mt 24, 23- Then if any man shall say not after, nor follow them.

24

26

23

to you Lo, here is Christ, Then if any man shall say Mk 13,21-
or there, do not believe him. to you, Lo, here is Christ;
-For there shall arise false lo, He is here, do not believe.
christs, and false prophets -For there will rise up false
and shall show great signs christs and false prophets,
and wonders, insomuch as to and they shall show signs
deceive (if possible) even and wonders, to seduce (if it
the elect.
were possible) even

the

Mt 21,25- Behold I have told it to elect.-Take you heed thereyou beforehand.-If there- fore: behold I have foretold fore they shall say to you: you all things.

Lu 17, 23

Je 23, 30

Je 23, 31

Pv 11, 9

Je 23, 32

Behold He is in the desert: [Christ] said: Take heed Lu 21, 8
go ye not out. Behold He you be not seduced; for
is in the closets, believe it many will come in My
Name, saying, I am He:
They shall say to you: Lo and the time is at hand: go
here, and lo there. Go ye ye not therefore after them.

not.

6.-DIVINE WARNINGS AGAINST THREE CLASSES OF
FALSE PROPHETS.

1. DISTORTERS OF SCRIP-saith the Lord.

TURE.

28

I have heard what the Je 23,25Behold I am against the prophets said, that prophesy prophets, saith the Lord: lies in My Name, and say: who steal My words every I have dreamed, I have one from his neighbour. dreamed.-How long shall 2. BABBLERS. this be in the heart of the Behold I am against the prophets that prophesy lies, prophets, saith the Lord and that prophesy the dewho use their tongues, and lusions of their own heart? say: The Lord saith it. -Who seek to make My The dissembler with his people forget My Name mouth deceiveth his friend. through their dreams, which 3. PRETENDERS OF SUPER- they tell every man to his NATURAL LIGHTS AND neighbour as their fathers VISIONS. forgot My Name for Baal.Behold I am against the The prophet that hath a prophets that have lying dream, let him tell a dream: dreams, saith the Lord: and and he that hath My Word tell them and cause My peo-let him speak My Word with ple to err by their lying, and truth: what hath the chaff by their wonders: when I to do with the Wheat, saith sent them not, nor com- the Lord? manded them, who have not You speak words of an un profited this people at all, profitable vision.

Os 10, 4