Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsIsaiah 66
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Isaiah 66 in the BibleIsaiah 66:21
I will take of them to be Priests.
In the Law of Moyses Priests and Levites were all of one Tribe, by succession of natural kindred, not by election; but the law being changed, necessarily also Priesthood is changed. And Bishops, Priests, Deacons, and other Clergy men, are taken, and ordained not by nearness of blood, but by election, ◦ according to their merits of virtues.
- ◦ Clergymen in the old law succeeded by blood, in the new by election.
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Isaiah 66:1
Heaven is my seat.
Lest any should interpret these prophetical promises (as the Jews do) only of the restoration, & re-edification of Jerusalem and the Temple, the Prophet here sheweth that albeit God sanctified the temple, and granted many benefits to those that served him therein, yet his proper seat is not in any material temple or terrestrial place, but in heaven. ◦ And therefore Temples and Churches are indeed ordained for faithful people to serve him in, & to signify, that as these places are more holy, than ordinary houses, so heaven is infinitely more glorious than any earthly palace: yet God is not contained in any place, but exceedeth all. To which purpose S. Steven (Act. 7.) allegeth and urgeth this place: and also S. Paul. Act. 17. that God dwelleth not, or is not concluded in temples, neither needeth them for his own use, but is rightly served in them, by those that lift up their minds to him, as dwelling in heaven, & replenishing all places.