He was caught away, lest evil should change his understanding, or guile deceive his soul.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Away. Like Henoch. Genesis 5:24. Hebrews 11:5. Calmet.—“Bad conversations corrupt the best manners.” 1 Corinthians 15:33. Isaiah 57:1. But could not God have supported the just under temptation? Undoubtedly. His judgments are unsearchable. Saint Augustine de Præd. xiv. Calmet.—The holy doctor thence proves, that those who die in a just state, might have forfeited it, if they had lived longer. God knew this possibility, and that it would not take place, and his foreknowledge agrees with man’s free-will, which some, inclining to Pelagianism, would controvert. They objected to this authority: and he was therefore obliged to prove that the book of Wisdom is canonical. Ib. Worthington.