WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:21.160 I will bless thee, and make thy name renowned, and name those who curse thee I will curse, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.540 and in thee all the races of the world shall find a blessing. 3 00:00:29.060 --> 00:00:35.480 This is the Catholic Hour. The Catholic Hour, the NBC television religious program, 4 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.600 is produced in cooperation with the National Council of Catholic Men. The Catholic Hour 5 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:48.080 presents Journey Through Scripture by Richard Gilman, a series of four programs on the Bible. 6 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:54.340 Part Three, The Message of the Old Ism on Senior John J. Daugherty, Doctor of Sacred 7 00:00:54.340 --> 00:00:57.320 Scripture and President of Seton Hall University. 8 00:01:01.740 --> 00:01:07.240 Relation to man, given to a specific tree, and it profoundly shaped that history, 9 00:01:07.980 --> 00:01:12.540 how these people saw themselves and their unique destiny. 10 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:18.000 They came of Chaldean stock, but they made their abode in Mesopotamia, 11 00:01:18.220 --> 00:01:21.440 because they had no mind to worship the old gods of Chaldea. 12 00:01:21.440 --> 00:01:26.860 Gods are many of their fathers worship owned, but they forsook it to worship one God only, 13 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:33.480 the God of heaven. He it was that them removed thence and dwell in Haran. At a time when famine 14 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.640 overspread the world, they took refuge in Egypt. The king of Egypt oppressed them, 15 00:01:38.080 --> 00:01:42.940 so they cried out to this lord of theirs, and he smote the whole land of Egypt with plagues. 16 00:01:43.720 --> 00:01:48.960 The Red Sea once passed, they took for their own the desert country of out Sinai. There for 17 00:01:49.060 --> 00:01:55.340 40 years, heaven itself sent them nourishment. God fought for them and won the victory. There 18 00:01:55.340 --> 00:02:00.440 was no beating down such a people as this, save when they forsook the worship of the Lord their 19 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:05.960 God. Even then, did they but repent of their revolt from his allegiance, the God of heaven 20 00:02:05.960 --> 00:02:15.280 would give them strength to resist their assailants. The Old Testament is the book of this people, 21 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:21.960 an inspired and visionary people, at times stiff-necked and rebellious. It is the book of their 22 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:28.920 relationship with God who single them out from all nations for a lofty mission. God chose Israel. 23 00:02:29.720 --> 00:02:35.820 This divine election is attested to on almost every page of the Old Testament. Why God did so 24 00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:41.860 is at bottom a mystery of the divine will, just as why Israel was obedient and rebellious by terms 25 00:02:41.860 --> 00:02:48.600 is a mystery of the human will. Yet from book to book, we see unfolding a purposeful history. 26 00:02:49.480 --> 00:02:57.060 The key word that describes Israel's relationship with God is covenant. In the world of the Near 27 00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:05.140 East, personal pledges are far more meaningful than abstract social laws. It's always been 28 00:03:05.140 --> 00:03:11.560 customary for men to bind themselves together by mutual pacts, which are then solemnized in 29 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:20.360 ritual. God used these human things for divine ends. It was a human local custom of making 30 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:26.480 covenant that God employed when he brought Abraham to himself and gave himself to him. 31 00:03:28.020 --> 00:03:33.800 And now God said to him, I am the Lord who brought thee out from war of the Chaldees to give thee 32 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:39.960 possession of this land instead. And when he asked Lord God, what assurance may I have that 33 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:47.300 is mine? The Lord answered, bring me a three-year-old she goat and a three-year-old ram and a turtle 34 00:03:47.300 --> 00:03:52.620 dove and a pigeon. All these he brought to him and cut them in half, laying the two halves of each 35 00:03:52.620 --> 00:04:03.380 on opposite sides, except the dove and the pigeon. He did not divide these. So the sun went down and 36 00:04:03.380 --> 00:04:08.400 when the darkness of night came on, a smoking furnace was seen, a torch of fire that passed 37 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:13.620 between the pieces of flesh. And the Lord that day made a covenant with Abraham. 38 00:04:16.280 --> 00:04:21.880 This passage describes the old Babylonian covenant rite. The smoking furnace is a 39 00:04:21.880 --> 00:04:26.280 symbol of the Lord passing through the severed pieces of the animals, thus binding himself 40 00:04:26.900 --> 00:04:34.280 by promise to Abraham. Abraham, patriarch of a sheep herding people from Chaldea. 41 00:04:35.980 --> 00:04:44.060 I am God Almighty, live as in my sight and be perfect. Then on my part I will make a covenant 42 00:04:44.060 --> 00:04:50.340 with thee to give thy posterity increase beyond measure. Thou shalt be the father of a multitude 43 00:04:50.340 --> 00:04:57.760 of nations. No longer shall thy name be Abram, thou shalt be called Abraham, the father of a throng. 44 00:04:58.840 --> 00:05:03.780 Such is the multitude of nations I will give thee for thy children. I will make thee fruitful 45 00:05:03.780 --> 00:05:10.900 beyond measure so that thou shalt count among the nations. From thy issue kings shall rise. 46 00:05:11.420 --> 00:05:16.820 I will honor this covenant of mine with thyself and with the race that shalt follow thee generation 47 00:05:16.820 --> 00:05:23.500 after generation. An eternal covenant that pledges me to be thy God and the God of the race which 48 00:05:23.500 --> 00:05:30.540 follows thee. To thee and to that race I will give the land in which thou dwellest now as a 49 00:05:30.540 --> 00:05:41.760 land of Canaan, their inheritance forever and I their God. Thus Abraham was called to the worship 50 00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:48.480 of the one true God from a family of pagans, probably moon worshipers like their Babylonian 51 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:56.740 neighbors in Ur. This took place about 18 centuries before Christ. From now on he and his descendants 52 00:05:56.740 --> 00:06:05.020 will enact the divine plan in successive stages. The divine plan unfolds gradually. A son, Isaac, 53 00:06:05.080 --> 00:06:12.880 is born to Abraham. From Isaac's son Jacob come twelve sons, the twelve men who give their names 54 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:19.740 to the tribes of Israel. Through Joseph, one of Jacob's sons, Israel went down to Egypt and there 55 00:06:19.740 --> 00:06:25.920 they dwelt in centuries of peace until there rose a Pharaoh that knew not Joseph and oppression of 56 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:32.620 Israel set in. The figure arose in their midst, an instrument of God to deliver them from bondage. 57 00:06:32.940 --> 00:06:40.280 Through Moses was consummated the second stage of the covenant, this time with the nation. 58 00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:55.900 Listen Israel, to the observances and the decrees I now proclaim in your hearing. Learn them well and 59 00:07:00.940 --> 00:07:23.880 I am the Lord thy God. I am the Lord thy God. I am the Lord thy God. I am the Lord thy God. 60 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:25.880 I am the Lord thy God. I am the Lord thy God. I am the Lord thy God. I am the Lord thy God. 61 00:07:25.880 --> 00:07:25.880 62 00:07:25.880 --> 00:07:25.880 63 00:07:25.880 --> 00:07:35.020 Listen my love, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God lightly upon thy lips. Observe 64 00:07:35.020 --> 00:07:43.560 this Sabbath day and keep it holy as the Lord thy God has bidden thee. Remember that thou too 65 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:51.740 wasst a slave in Egypt. What constraining force the Lord used. What a display he made of his power 66 00:07:51.740 --> 00:07:58.940 to rescue thee and now he will have thee keep this day of rest. Honor thy father and my mother as the Lord 67 00:07:58.940 --> 00:08:04.140 God has bidden thee so thou shalt live long to enjoy the lands which the Lord thy God means to 68 00:08:04.140 --> 00:08:16.380 give thee. Thou shalt do no murder. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt 69 00:08:16.380 --> 00:08:24.560 bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. Thou shalt not set 70 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:31.120 thy heart upon thy neighbor's house or lands, his servants or handmaids, an ox or an ass or 71 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:37.900 anything that is his. All this the Lord proclaimed to the whole multitude of you there on the mountain 72 00:08:37.900 --> 00:08:46.160 speaking aloud out of the heart of the flame the cloud in the darkness. And he wrote it down on a 73 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:57.880 stone which he infested to me. This law which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai was to bind the 74 00:08:57.880 --> 00:09:03.340 people forever. It was to this law that Jesus referred when he said I have not come to destroy 75 00:09:03.340 --> 00:09:08.800 the law but to fulfill it. It was to this law that the Israelites referred and their ancestors 76 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:15.480 and their successors do until this day in the title of the first five books of the Bible, 77 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:23.840 the Torah. In fulfillment of the covenant promised to Abraham, the Lord led the twelve tribes into 78 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:30.300 the promised land. The land promised to their forefathers, Canaan, a land flowing with milk 79 00:09:30.300 --> 00:09:36.940 and honey. Under Moses and Joshua, the tribes took possession of this fertile country. Joshua, 80 00:09:36.940 --> 00:09:42.640 like Moses before him, never allowed the Israelites to forget the author of their good fortune. If you 81 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:48.180 transgress the covenant of the Lord your God which he enjoined on you, serve other gods and 82 00:09:48.180 --> 00:09:54.040 worship them, the anger of the Lord will flare up against you and you will quickly perish from 83 00:09:54.040 --> 00:10:00.700 the good land which he has given you. The consolidation of Israel's hold on Canaan was 84 00:10:00.700 --> 00:10:06.640 affected under military leaders called shofetim or judges. At the end of this period, however, 85 00:10:06.760 --> 00:10:12.680 there arose a desire for a king among the people as they put it as the other nations have and their 86 00:10:12.680 --> 00:10:20.620 wish was granted. The first king was Saul. He was succeeded by David. From him was to descend the 87 00:10:20.620 --> 00:10:26.460 true unending line of kings, culminating in the Messiah King, the King of Kings. In David's dynasty 88 00:10:26.460 --> 00:10:31.500 has reached the third stage of the covenant. The Lord's promise to the nation Israel is to be 89 00:10:31.500 --> 00:10:39.540 fulfilled through a line of kings. The prophet Nathan confronts David the King. A message to 90 00:10:39.540 --> 00:10:46.640 his servant David from the Lord of hosts. Out in the pasture lands thou was tending sheep when I 91 00:10:46.640 --> 00:10:54.000 summoned thee away to bear rule over my people Israel. Henceforth my people are to have a settled 92 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:05.000 home, dwelling in it, taking possession of it, undisturbed, no longer harassed by godless 93 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:18.040 neighbors. No longer will thy enemies harass thee. It is true the Lord has granted that thy line 94 00:11:18.040 --> 00:11:25.960 shall have continuance. And when thy days are done and thou art laid to rest beside thy fathers, 95 00:11:26.900 --> 00:11:36.700 I will grant to thee for successor a son of thy own body established firmly on the throne. He it 96 00:11:36.700 --> 00:11:47.060 is that shall build a house to do honor to my name. I shall prolong forever his royal dynasty. He shall 97 00:11:47.060 --> 00:11:58.020 find in me a father and I in him a son. But if he play me false be sure I shall punish him. Ever for 98 00:11:58.020 --> 00:12:06.780 man the rod, ever for the sons of Adam, ever for the sons of Adam the frailties of mortality. 99 00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:17.720 I shall not shall not forgive my merciful promise as I did as I did banish it and 100 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:28.180 withdraw it from Saul the king. Throughout the ages as far as thy thought can reach, 101 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:37.800 dynasty and royalty shall both endure. Thy throne shall remain forever. 102 00:12:42.100 --> 00:12:43.500 Unshaken. 103 00:12:58.180 --> 00:13:05.760 Lord God, that one such as I am sprung from such a house as mine should have been brought by thee 104 00:13:05.760 --> 00:13:12.000 to such power. But it was not enough Lord God thou wouldst do more. Thou wouldst foretell the 105 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:20.480 destiny of thy servants lying in days far hence. Lord God, can mortal man deserve such right? No 106 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:26.960 words can thy servant David find, such divine mercy thou show'st him. In fulfillment of thy 107 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:32.920 promise, in pursuance of thy will, thou dost bring about all these marvels which thou hast made known 108 00:13:32.920 --> 00:13:41.920 to thy servant. So great thou art Lord God, none is like thee, thou alone art God. Can any other 109 00:13:41.920 --> 00:13:48.180 nation say like thy people Israel, that its God came to buy it back for himself as his own people, 110 00:13:48.700 --> 00:13:54.760 winning such renown for himself, doing such deeds of wonder and dread against any nation and its 111 00:13:54.760 --> 00:14:01.600 people and its God as thou didst when thou didst buy back thy people from Egypt. So didst thou 112 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:09.460 pledge this people of Israel to be thy people eternally and thou Lord God didst become their God. 113 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:18.100 Israel's kings were men set apart, God's representatives on earth and the peoples delegate 114 00:14:18.100 --> 00:14:23.400 of the covenant. Some of them are worthy of this role like King David, others were not. No, 115 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:30.240 were the people on the whole faithful to the demands that the law made upon them. David was 116 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:41.100 king in the United Monarchy from 1000 to 960 before Christ. He defeated the Philistines, 117 00:14:41.340 --> 00:14:47.880 Israel's chief enemy. He made Jerusalem the capital of the United Kingdom, both religious 118 00:14:47.880 --> 00:14:54.760 and political. He was succeeded by his son Solomon who built a temple to the Lord in Jerusalem and 119 00:14:55.020 --> 00:15:02.020 ruled over a flourishing people. But the United Monarchy did not last long. After the death of 120 00:15:02.020 --> 00:15:07.480 Solomon and due to in part certainly to his follies, the kingdom was divided. The ten northern tribes 121 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:12.160 seceded, set up a kingdom of their own which they called Israel. The two southern tribes, 122 00:15:12.380 --> 00:15:18.160 Judah and Benjamin, formed the kingdom of Judah. The small kingdoms lived in peace and prosperity 123 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:24.480 for a while but finally they declined, succumbing eventually to powerful neighbors. Samaria, 124 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:29.880 capital of the northern kingdom fell in 722 to the power of Assyria and the people were led away 125 00:15:29.880 --> 00:15:38.780 into captivity never more to return. In 586 BC, Jerusalem, kingdom of Judah fell to Nabucadonisa, 126 00:15:38.980 --> 00:15:45.940 king of the Chaldeans. The people were led away into exile which history records as the Babylonian 127 00:15:45.940 --> 00:15:54.020 captivity. We sat down beside the streams of Babylon and wept there remembering Sion. 128 00:15:55.340 --> 00:16:01.680 Willow trees grow there and on these we hung up our harps. When the men who took us prisoner 129 00:16:01.680 --> 00:16:09.360 cried out for a song. We must make sport for our enemies. A stave there from the music they sing at 130 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:22.020 Sion. What should we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Jerusalem, if I forget thee, 131 00:16:22.020 --> 00:16:28.460 perish the skill of my right hand. Let my tongue stick fast to the roof of my mouth if I cease to 132 00:16:28.460 --> 00:16:38.880 remember thee. If I love not Jerusalem dearer than heart's content. Remember Lord how the sons of 133 00:16:38.880 --> 00:16:46.320 Edom triumphed when Jerusalem fell. Overthrow it they cried. Overthrow it till the very foundation 134 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:58.260 is laid bare. Babylon, pitiless queen, blessed be the man that deals out to thee the measure 135 00:16:58.260 --> 00:17:06.780 thou hast dealt to us. The psalm expresses the loneliness and heart sickness of the people 136 00:17:06.780 --> 00:17:13.140 in their national and personal catastrophe. Nor are the Old Testament books silent on the causes 137 00:17:13.140 --> 00:17:20.580 for this catastrophe. Already in the desert of Sinai the people had abandoned their God 138 00:17:20.580 --> 00:17:27.120 and worshiped an idol. Time and time again the people fell away from the demands made upon them 139 00:17:27.120 --> 00:17:35.300 from the uprightness demanded of them by the law. Even going as far as worshipping pagan idols. 140 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:41.880 Kings arose, faithless kings like this one described in the book of Kings. Manasseh was 141 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:46.900 12 years old when he came to the throne and his reign at Jerusalem lasted 55 years. 142 00:17:47.360 --> 00:17:52.260 This Manasseh defied the Lord's will by courting the false gods of those nations which the Lord 143 00:17:52.260 --> 00:17:57.600 destroyed to make room for the sons of Israel. Thereupon word came from the Lord through his 144 00:17:57.600 --> 00:18:04.240 servants the prophets. King Manasseh of Judah shall not go unpunished. I mean to bring such 145 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:10.000 calamity upon Israel and Judah shall ring in the ears of all who hear it. Level with Samaria shall 146 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:16.940 Jerusalem lie. I mean to efface Jerusalem as a wax tablet is effaced scraping it over and over. 147 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:23.080 I mean to abandon this poor remnant of the people that once was mine and let them fall into the 148 00:18:23.080 --> 00:18:31.600 hands of their enemies. God was deeply involved in the fate of his people. In the early days of the 149 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:37.660 monarchy there rose in Israel men called prophets, spokesmen for God. Function was to stand between 150 00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:44.260 God and men recalling to King and people the covenant and making known to them the Lord's will 151 00:18:44.260 --> 00:18:50.360 and above all his anger at their infidelities. The prophet Osi or Hosea preached in the northern 152 00:18:50.360 --> 00:19:00.300 kingdom in the years preceding. Listen sons of Israel to a message from the Lord. 153 00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:08.100 Notice of a suit he prefers against all that dwell in this land of yours. A land where loyalty and 154 00:19:08.900 --> 00:19:16.080 tenderness of heart and knowledge of God is none. Cursed they and lie, murdered they and 155 00:19:16.080 --> 00:19:22.340 steal and live adulterously till there is no checking it. Never feud ends but another feud begins. 156 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:34.360 What wonder the land lies widowed and its foal dwindled. God, beast and bird and the sea beach piled high with fish. 157 00:19:36.280 --> 00:19:45.760 And what of my people? See where they have recourse to tree stump or senseless wand for an answer to their 158 00:19:45.760 --> 00:19:53.440 complexities. Lust for strange worship swept them away, made them false to their trust with God. 159 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:02.280 Wouldst thou to thy God return? A tender heart keep thou must and a right mind 160 00:20:03.040 --> 00:20:07.800 and wait for thy God's help continually. 161 00:20:10.020 --> 00:20:16.860 In recalling men to repentance and reminding them of God's will, the prophets were instruments of a 162 00:20:16.860 --> 00:20:21.660 spiritual transformation among the people. We must remember that the Lord had promised that He would 163 00:20:21.660 --> 00:20:27.340 never totally abandon Israel. Before the fall of Judah, the prophets began to speak of a remnant 164 00:20:27.340 --> 00:20:33.240 that would return. A purified segment of the people who would carry forth the covenant in a new spirit 165 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.580 and a new worship. The prophet Jeremiah spoke of this. 166 00:20:41.280 --> 00:20:47.420 A time is coming, the Lord says, when I mean to ratify a new covenant with the people of Israel 167 00:20:47.420 --> 00:20:53.340 and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers 168 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:58.020 on the day when I took them by the hand to rescue them from Egypt. 169 00:20:58.820 --> 00:21:04.220 That they should break my covenant and I all the while their master. 170 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:13.980 No, the Lord says, this is the covenant I will grant the people of Israel when that time comes. 171 00:21:16.300 --> 00:21:23.400 I will implant my law in their innermost thoughts, engrave it in their hearts. 172 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:32.000 I will be their God and they shall be my people. There will be no need for neighbor to teach 173 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:39.500 neighbor or brother to teach brother the knowledge of the Lord. All will know me from the highest to 174 00:21:39.500 --> 00:21:47.660 the lowest. I will pardon their wrongdoing. I will not remember their sins anymore. 175 00:21:49.300 --> 00:21:54.440 A purified segment were the Jews that returned from the captivity of Babylon. 176 00:21:55.600 --> 00:22:01.180 In the writings of the prophets of this period, we discover an ever increasing inwardness of 177 00:22:01.180 --> 00:22:09.020 religion and the spirit and elevation of it. Among them, the greatest spokesman of the theme 178 00:22:09.020 --> 00:22:16.100 and indeed the greatest figure in their ranks was Isaiah. We find Old Testament's most magnificent 179 00:22:16.100 --> 00:22:26.800 poetry and more. Isaiah is the spokesman of the transcendence of God, of his holiness and mysterious 180 00:22:26.800 --> 00:22:39.220 being. I had a vision. I saw the Lord sitting on a throne that towered high above me, 181 00:22:40.080 --> 00:22:45.800 the skirts of his robes filling the temple. Above it stood the figures of the Seraphim. 182 00:22:46.100 --> 00:22:53.280 Each of them six-winged. With two wings they veiled God's face. With two his feet and the other two 183 00:22:53.280 --> 00:23:03.860 kept them poised in flight. And ever the same cry rose between them. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord 184 00:23:03.860 --> 00:23:13.300 God of hosts. All the world is full of his glory. In Isaiah 2, we meet haunting descriptions of a 185 00:23:13.300 --> 00:23:19.960 righteous king who is to come of the line of David and a noble, far-seeing vision of a future in which 186 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:26.320 God's reign will be established anew through one who will consummate in himself a new covenant 187 00:23:27.140 --> 00:23:37.060 embracing all men. From the stock of Jesse, a scion shall burgeon yet. Out of his roots, a flower 188 00:23:37.060 --> 00:23:44.420 shall spring. One shall be born on whom the spirit of the Lord will rest. A spirit wise and 189 00:23:44.420 --> 00:23:52.180 discerning. A spirit prudent and just. A spirit of knowledge and piety. And ever 190 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:59.660 fear of the Lord shall fill his heart. Not his to judge by appearances. Listen to rumors when he 191 00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:05.500 makes a ward. Here his judgment will give the poor redress. Here as a ward will right the wrongs of 192 00:24:05.500 --> 00:24:11.800 defenseless. Word of him shall smite the earth like a rod. Breath of him destroy the ill-doer. 193 00:24:12.100 --> 00:24:18.340 Bright shall be the baldrick he wears. Faithfulness, the strength that girds him. 194 00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:27.080 Wolf shall live at peace with lamb. Leopard should take its ease with kid. Calf with lion and sheep 195 00:24:27.080 --> 00:24:33.880 in one dwelling place with a little child to herd them. Cattle and sheep lying down together. 196 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:41.840 There young ones about them. Lion eating straw like ox. Child new weaned fresh from its mother's arms 197 00:24:41.840 --> 00:24:49.600 putting hand in viper's den. All over this mountain my sanctuary no hurt shall be done 198 00:24:49.600 --> 00:24:57.620 taken. Deep as the waters that hide the sea floor. Knowledge of the Lord over spreading the world. 199 00:24:59.760 --> 00:25:05.480 In the prophets the covenant which in the Old Testament had been deepened and reaffirmed takes 200 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:11.840 on and full dimensions. The Old Testament the book of the relationship of God with the chosen people 201 00:25:11.840 --> 00:25:20.560 is to be fulfilled they declare in a new covenant a new testament. The voice of Isaiah is heard 202 00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:26.380 telling men of a wondrous child and of a vision exciting and radiant with promise. 203 00:25:27.340 --> 00:25:35.560 For our sakes a child is born. To our race a son is given whose shoulder will bear the scepter of 204 00:25:35.560 --> 00:25:43.040 princely power. What name shall be given him? Peerless among counselors the mighty God father 205 00:25:43.040 --> 00:25:47.100 of the world to come. The Prince of Peace. 206 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:57.940 Seven hundred years later God who spoke through the lips of the prophet Isaiah 207 00:25:58.800 --> 00:26:07.960 sent this message to a maiden in Nazareth. Behold thou shall conceive in thy womb 208 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:14.880 and shall bear a son and shall call his name Jesus. He shall be great and men will know him 209 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:22.460 as the son of the most high. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David 210 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:33.000 and he shall reign over the house of Jacob eternally and his kingdom shall never have an end. 211 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:13.660 The Catholic Hour. 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