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撒母耳记上 16

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1 耶和华对撒母耳:我既厌弃扫罗以色列的王,你为他悲伤要到几时呢?你将膏盛满了角,我差遣你往伯利恒人耶西那里去;因为我在他众子之内,预定一个作王的。

2 撒母耳:我怎能去呢?扫罗见,必要杀我。耶和华:你可以带一只牛犊去,就:我是要向耶和华献祭。

3 你要请耶西来吃祭肉,我就指示你所当行的事。我所指给你的人,你要他。

4 撒母耳就照耶和华的话去行。到了伯利恒,那城里的长老都战战兢兢地出迎接他,问他:你是为平安的麽?

5 :为平安的,我是给耶和华献祭。你们当自洁,与我同吃祭肉。撒母耳就使耶西和他众子自洁,请他们吃祭肉。

6 他们的时候,撒母耳见以利押,就心里耶和华的受膏者必定在他面前。

7 耶和华却对撒母耳:不要他的外貌和他身材高大,我不拣选他。因为,耶和华不像人人:人是外貌;耶和华内心。

8 耶西亚比拿达从撒母耳面前经过,撒母耳耶和华也不拣选他。

9 耶西又叫沙玛从撒母耳面前经过,撒母耳耶和华也不拣选他。

10 耶西叫他个儿子都从撒母耳面前经过,撒母耳:这都不是耶和华所拣选的。

11 撒母耳对耶西:你的儿子都在这里麽?他回答:还有个小的,现在放。撒母耳对耶西:你打发人去叫他;他若不,我们必不席。

12 耶西就打发人去叫了他。他面色光红,双目清秀,容貌俊美。耶和华:这就是他,你起来他。

13 撒母耳就用角里的,在他诸兄中了他。从这日起,耶和华的灵就大大感动大卫。撒母耳起身回拉玛去了。

14 耶和华的灵离开扫罗,有恶魔从耶和华那里来扰乱他。

15 扫罗的臣仆对他:现在有恶魔从那里来扰乱你。

16 我们的可以吩咐面前的臣仆,找一个善於弹琴的来,等那里来的恶魔临到你身上的时候,使他用弹琴,你就好了。

17 扫罗对臣仆:你们可以为我找一个善於弹琴的,到我这里

18 其中有个少年:我曾见伯利恒耶西的儿子善於弹琴,是大有勇敢的战士,合宜,容貌俊美,耶和华也与他同在。

19 於是扫罗差遣使者去见耶西,:请你打发你放儿子大卫到我这里来。

20 耶西就把几个饼和皮袋酒,并只山羊羔,都驮在上,交给他儿子大卫,送与扫罗

21 大卫到了扫罗那里,就侍立在扫罗面前。扫罗甚喜他,他就作了扫罗拿兵器的人。

22 扫罗差遣人去见耶西,说:求你容大卫侍立在我面前,因为他在我眼前蒙了恩。

23 那里来的恶魔临到扫罗身上的时候,大卫就拿琴,用而弹,扫罗便舒畅爽快,恶魔离了他。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 276

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276. Each having a lyre. This symbolizes a confession of the Lord's Divine humanity springing from spiritual truths.

We know that in the Temple in Jerusalem, confessions of Jehovah were made with songs and musical instruments, and these had a correspondence. The instruments were principally horns and timbrels, harps and lyres. Horns and timbrels corresponded to celestial goods and truths, while harps and lyres corresponded to spiritual goods and truths. The correpondences were with their sounds.

The difference between celestial good and truth and spiritual good and truth may be seen in the book Heaven and Hell, 13-19nos. and .

That lyres symbolize confessions of the Lord springing from spiritual truths can be seen from the following passages:

Confess Jehovah with the lyre; make music to Him with a harp of ten strings. (Psalms 33:2)

...on the lyre I will confess You, O God, my God. (Psalms 43:4)

...I will confess you with the instrument of a harp... I will sing to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. (Psalms 71:22)

Awake (me), harp and lyre... I will confess You among the nations, O Lord. (Psalms 57:8-9; 108:2, 3)

Answer Jehovah by confession, make music to our God with the lyre. (Psalms 147:7)

It is good to confess to Jehovah... on the harp, and on the melodious sound of the lyre. (Psalms 92:1-3)

Make a noise to Jehovah, all the earth... Sing to Jehovah with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of singing. (Psalms 98:4, 5)

And so on in many other places, as in Psalms 49:3-4; 137:1-2, Revelation 14:2; 18:22.

Since lyres corresponded to a confession of the Lord, and evil spirits cannot endure it, therefore David used a lyre to drive away the evil spirit from Saul (1 Samuel 16:14-16, 23).

To learn that it was not lyres that John heard, but confessions of the Lord that sounded like lyres, see no. 661 below.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.