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Fish Bible. 153 Large Fish in John Bible - John explains his purpose
for the use of 153 Fish, 153 large fish in John 21:11, as a
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The
meaning and significance of the measure of the draught of
153 large fish. Significance of 153 fish catholic Father’s
explanation
The Book of
Tobit is a Beautiful Love Story
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Tobit sends
his son, Tobiah (Tobias), on a journey to collect some money
that is due him. Tobiah is led on this journey by Archangel
Saint Raphael, who conceals his identity till the
end.
While on the
journey Tobiah meets Sarah, his distant relative. Young
Sarah had been married seven times. However, on each night
of her wedding her new groom was killed because of a
curse.
Even so,
Tobiah falls in love with her, especially when he learns she
is of his same clan. St. Raphael comes to everyone’s aid,
including Tobit, the father, who had gone blind.
The version
of Tobit as found in the Douay-Rheims Bible is especially
clear on which marriages please God. And, over which
marriages devil has power and can prevail.
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Pictures
from the Bible of Borso d’Este, 1461 AD
The Book of Tobit on Marriage
Douay-Rheims Bible - DRB
Tobias or Tobit Chapter 6: 16-22
16 Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will
shew thee who they are, over whom the
devil can prevail.
17 For they who in such manner receive
matrimony, as
to shut out God from themselves,
and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust,
as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over
them the devil hath power.
18 But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber,
and for
three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her.
19 And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire,
and the devil shall be driven away.
20 But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the
society of the holy Patriarchs.
21 And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that
sound children may be born of you.
22 And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the
virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather
for love of children than for lust, that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst
obtain a blessing in children.
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Tobiah Takes
Sarah’s hand before eating.
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Tobias 8:4-5, 9-10
4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her:
Sara, arise, and let us pray to God
to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these
three nights
we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we
will be in our own wedlock.
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Tobiah (Tobias) and his wife Sarah praying on
their wedding night at their bed.
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5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be
joined together like heathens that know not God.
9 And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do
I take my sister to wife, but only for the
love of posterity, in which
thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.
10 Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on
us, and let us grow old both together in health.
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The DRB states that the
devil prevails over lustful marriages (6:16-17),
and makes a reference to
three days of chastity (6:18),
and the explicit
reference to “love of children” (6:22).
In 8:9 DRB the reference
to posterity was commonly understood to be a reference to children.
The reference to
“sister” should be understood in the wider sense of distant relative.
Tobiah seems to be an only son, NAB, Tobit 1:20. Cf.
4:12. See relevant article on meaning of the word “brother
(or, sister)” in article on
Mary’s Perpetual Virginity.
See
English and Latin comparison,
and at New Advent the
Greek
Pope John Paul II
... Therefore in the
regions of the West the Church has preferred to the others that edition
which is usually called the Vulgate and which, composed for the most
part by the excellent teacher Saint Jerome, has been "confirmed in the
Church herself by the usage of so many centuries" (Conc. Trid., sess.
IV; Enchir. Bibl., n. 21). ...
These things being so,
by virtue of this Letter we declare the New Vulgate edition of the Holy
Bible as "typical" and we promulgate it to be used especially in the
sacred Liturgy but also as suitable for other things, as we have said.
Finally we decree that
this Constitution of ours be firm and forever efficacious and be
scrupulously observed by all concerned, notwithstanding any obstacles
whatsoever.
(Apostolic Constitution,
Scripturarum Thesaurus, 1979)
Pictures from the Bible
of Borso d’Este, 1461 AD
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