Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsMark 9
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Mark 9 in the BibleMark 9:13
Elias also is come.
Elias was Zealous for God's Law, a great reprehender of sin, and an Eremite ◦, and shall be the Precursor of Christ in his second Advent: So was John before his first Advent, a zelator, a Corrector, an Eremite; and his Precursor. Theod. in caten. Thomæ super hunc locum. See S. Hierom in the life of Paul the eremite, that both Elias and John Baptist were counted principal professors of that life.
- ◦ Elias and John Baptist Eremites.
Mark 9:37
In thy name.
◦ Miracles are wrought sometime by the name of Jesus, whatsoever the men be, when it is for the proof of a truth or for the glory of God. In so much that Iulian the Apostata himself did drive away devils with the sign of the Cross: as S. Gregory Nazianzene writeth orat. 1. in Iulian. Theodoret. li. 3. c. 3. hist. And so also Heretics may do miracles among the Heathen, to prove any article of the Christian faith: but they never did nor ever shall work any miracle to prove any of their erroneous opinions, as to prove that Christ is not really in the B. Sacrament.
- ◦ The name of JESUS worketh miracles.
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Mark 9:4
Elias with Moyses.
◦ Moyses representeth the persons of all the Saints that shall be departed this life when Christ cometh in his Majesty to judgement: And Elias (who was then living figureth the holy men that shall then be found alive when he cometh in glory. Who both shall then begin to reign with Christ in glory. Beda in 9. Marc.