This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...Jews, as is shown by more than one passage in the Apocrypha. See 2 Mace. xv. 12-14: "And this was his vision: that Onias, who had been high priest... holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews. This done, in like manner there appeared a man with grey hairs, and exceeding glorious, who was of a wonderful ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...Jews, as is shown by more than one passage in the Apocrypha. See 2 Mace. xv. 12-14: "And this was his vision: that Onias, who had been high priest... holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews. This done, in like manner there appeared a man with grey hairs, and exceeding glorious, who was of a wonderful and excellent majesty. Then Onias answered, saying, This is a lover of the brethren, who prayeth much for the people, and for the holy city, to wit, Jeremias, the prophet of God." Cf. Tobit xii. 12, where Raphael, ' one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints," speaks of ' bringing the remembrance " of Tobit's prayers "before the Holy One." Cf. also Rev. viii. 3, 4, and v. 8. It does not appear that there is any evidence in Holy Scripture that the saints are already admitted to the beatific vision, or that they are cognisant of our prayers, such as would warrant us in addressing them.1 Nor can it be said that there has been any certain and consistent tradition of the Church on the subject which would justify us in regarding it as "a Catholic practice." As we have already seen, there is no trace of direct invocation before the Jti hatf-gJLjhe fourth century. In the fifth century S. Augustine uses language which betrays considerable doubt when discussing the question whether the saints know what is passing on earth.2 In the twelfth century, all that Peter Lombard, the Master of the Sentences, can say with regard to the theory which obtains most widely at the present day, is that "it is not incredible that the souls of the saints, which in their secret dwelling rejoice in the illumination of the true light of the face of God, do in the contemplation thereof understand the thi...
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