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I Samuël 28

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1 En het geschiedde in die dagen, als de Filistijnen hun legers vergaderden tot den strijd, om tegen Israel te strijden, zo zeide Achis tot David: Gij zult zekerlijk weten, dat gij met mij in het leger zult uittrekken, gij en uw mannen.

2 Toen zeide David tot Achis: Aldus zult gij weten, wat uw knecht doen zal. En Achis zeide tot David: Daarom zal ik u ten bewaarder mijns hoofds zetten, te allen dage.

3 Samuel nu was gestorven, en gans Israel had rouw over hem bedreven; en zij hadden hem begraven te Rama, te weten in zijn stad. En Saul had uit het land weggedaan de waarzeggers en duivelskunstenaars.

4 En de Filistijnen kwamen en vergaderden zich, en zij legerden zich te Sunem; en Saul vergaderde gans Israel, en zij legerden zich op Gilboa.

5 Toen Saul het leger der Filistijnen zag, zo vreesde hij, en zijn hart beefde zeer.

6 En Saul vraagde den HEERE; maar de HEERE antwoordde hem niet; noch door dromen, noch door de urim, noch door de profeten.

7 Toen zeide Saul tot zijn knechten: Zoekt mij een vrouw, die een waarzeggenden geest heeft, dat ik tot haar ga, en door haar onderzoeke. Zijn knechten nu zeiden tot hem: Zie, te Endor is een vrouw, die een waarzeggenden geest heeft.

8 En Saul verstelde zich, en trok andere klederen aan, en ging heen, en twee mannen met hem, en zij kwamen des nachts tot de vrouw, en hij zeide: Voorzeg mij toch door den waarzeggenden geest, en doe mij opkomen, dien ik tot u zeggen zal.

9 Toen zeide de vrouw tot hem: Zie, gij weet, wat Saul gedaan heeft, hoe hij de waarzegsters en de duivelskunstenaars uit dit land heeft uitgeroeid; waarom stelt gij dan mijn ziel een strik, om mij te doden?

10 Saul nu zwoer haar bij den HEERE, zeggende: Zo waarachtig als de HEERE leeft, indien u een straf om deze zaak zal overkomen!

11 Toen zeide de vrouw: Wien zal ik u doen opkomen? En hij zeide: Doe mij Samuel opkomen.

12 Toen nu de vrouw Samuel zag, zo riep zij met luider stem, en de vrouw sprak tot Saul, zeggende: Waarom hebt gij mij bedrogen? Want gij zijt Saul.

13 En de koning zeide tot haar: Vrees niet; maar wat ziet gij? Toen zeide de vrouw tot Saul: Ik zie goden, uit de aarde opkomende.

14 Hij dan zeide tot haar: Hoe is zijn gedaante? En zij zeide: Er komt een oud man op, en hij is met een mantel bekleed. Toen Saul vernam, dat het Samuel was, zo neigde hij zich met het aangezicht ter aarde, en hij boog zich.

15 En Samuel zeide tot Saul: Waarom hebt gij mij onrustig gemaakt, mij doende opkomen? Toen zeide Saul: Ik ben zeer beangstigd, want de Filistijnen krijgen tegen mij, en God is van mij geweken, en antwoordt mij niet meer, noch door den dienst der profeten, noch door dromen; daarom heb ik u geroepen, dat gij mij te kennen geeft, wat ik doen zal.

16 Toen zeide Samuel: Waarom vraagt gij mij toch, dewijl de HEERE van u geweken en uw vijand geworden is?

17 Want de HEERE heeft voor Zich gedaan, gelijk als Hij door mijn dienst gesproken heeft; en heeft het koninkrijk van uw hand gescheurd, en Hij heeft dat gegeven aan uw naaste, aan David.

18 Gelijk als gij naar de stem des HEEREN niet gehoord hebt, en de hittigheid Zijns toorns niet uitgericht hebt tegen Amalek; daarom heeft de HEERE u deze zaak gedaan te dezen dage.

19 En de HEERE zal ook Israel met u in de hand der Filistijnen geven, en morgen zult gij en uw zonen bij mij zijn; ook zal de HEERE het leger van Israel in de hand der Filistijnen geven.

20 Toen viel Saul haastelijk ter aarde, zo lang als hij was, en hij vreesde zeer vanwege de woorden van Samuel; ook was er geen kracht in hem; want hij had den gehelen dag en den gehelen nacht geen brood gegeten.

21 De vrouw nu kwam tot Saul, en zag, dat hij zeer verbaasd was; en zij zeide tot hem: Zie, uw dienstmaagd heeft naar uw stem gehoord, en ik heb mijn ziel in mijn hand gesteld, en ik heb uw woorden gehoord, die gij tot mij gesproken hebt.

22 Zo hoor toch gij nu ook naar de stem uwer dienstmaagd, en laat mij een bete broods voor u zetten, en eet; zo zal er kracht in u zijn, dat gij over weg gaat.

23 Doch hij weigerde het, en zeide: Ik zal niet eten. Maar zijn knechten, en ook de vrouw, hielden bij hem aan. Toen hoorde hij naar hun stem, en hij stond op van de aarde, en zette zich op het bed.

24 En de vrouw had een gemest kalf in het huis; en zij haastte zich en slachtte het; en zij nam meel, en kneedde het, en bakte daar ongezuurde van.

25 En zij bracht ze voor Saul en voor zijn knechten, en zij aten; daarna stonden zij op, en gingen weg in dienzelfden nacht.

   

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816. And he had two horns like a lamb, signifies a power as if from the Lord, of persuading that there is a conjunction with the Word of faith separate. This is evident from the signification of "horns," as being power (See above, n. 316, 776); also from the signification of "two," as being conjunction (See above, n. 532 at the end); also from the signification of a "lamb," as being the Lord in relation to the Divine Human (See also above, n. 314; therefore "to have two horns like a lamb" signifies a power as if from the Lord of persuading that there is a conjunction with the Word of faith separate, as can be seen from what precedes and from what follows; from what precedes, in that "the beast coming up out of the earth" signifies confirmations from the sense of the letter of the Word in favor of faith separate from life (See just above, n. 815; and from what follows, in that it is said that this beast "spake as the dragon," and that "all the authority of the first beast he exercised before him," which signifies a similar affection, thought, doctrine, and preaching as belong to those who separate faith from the life of faith, which is charity, also the conjunction of the reasonings from the natural man, by which the religion of faith separate is strengthened, which will be treated of in the next articles. Thence it is clear that as the "horns" of this beast signify the power of persuading, "two" signifies conjunction, and "a lamb" the Lord, so "this beast having two horns like a lamb" signifies a power as if from the Lord of persuading that there is a conjunction with the Word of faith separate from life. Upon the head of this beast two horns only were seen, but upon the head of the former beast ten horns, because this beast signifies confirmations from the Word; and in the Word there is the marriage of good and truth, and this marriage is signified by "two." So, too, the horns appeared "like a lamb," because a "lamb" means the Lord, here the Lord in relation to the Word. That the Lord in respect to His Divine Human is the Word, that is, the Divine truth, is declared in the plainest terms in John:

That the Word became flesh (John 1:14).

[2] Such a power of persuading and confirming any heresy whatever from the Word is well known in the Christian world from the many heresies there, every one of which is confirmed from the sense of the letter of the Word and thus they are persuaded. The reason is that the sense of the letter of the Word is accommodated to the apprehension of the simple, and therefore consists in large part of appearances of truth; and it is the nature of appearances of truth to be capable of being adapted to confirm anything that anyone may adopt as a principle of religion and thence of doctrine, thus even when it is false. Consequently those who place genuine truth itself in the sense of the letter of the Word only, are open to many errors unless they are in enlightenment from the Lord, and in that enlightenment form doctrine for themselves that will serve them as a lamp. In the sense of the letter of the Word there are naked truths as well as truths clothed, and these latter are appearances of truth, and appearances of truth can be understood only from passages where naked truths stand out; out of these doctrine can be formed by one who is enlightened by the Lord, and according to that doctrine all other things can be explained. This is why those who read the Word without doctrine are led into manifold errors. The Word was so written in order that there might be a conjunction of heaven with man; and there is a conjunction because every expression in the Word, and in some passages every letter, contains a spiritual sense, in which the angels are; consequently when man perceives the Word according to its appearances of truth the angels that are about man understand it spiritually. Thus the spiritual of heaven is conjoined with the natural of the world in respect to such things as contribute to man's life after death. If the Word had been written otherwise no conjunction of heaven with man would have been possible.

[3] And because the Word in the letter is such it serves as it were as a support for heaven; for all the wisdom of the angels of heaven in respect to things pertaining to the church terminates in the sense of the letter of the Word as in its basis; consequently the Word in the letter may be called the support of heaven. For this reason the sense of the letter of the Word is most holy, and is even more powerful than its spiritual sense, as has been made known to me by much experience in the spiritual world, for when spirits bring forward any passage according to the sense of the letter they immediately excite some heavenly society to conjunction with them. From this it can be seen that all things of the doctrine of the church are to be confirmed from the sense of the letter of the Word that there may be in them any sanctity and power, and moreover from those books of the Word in which there is a spiritual sense. Thence it is also evident how dangerous it is to falsify the Word even to the destruction of the Divine truth that is in its spiritual sense; for by so doing heaven is closed to man. That this is done by those who confirm by the Word the separation of faith from its life, which is good works, has been shown above.

  
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Judges 13

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1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.

3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:

5 for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."

6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name:

7 but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"

8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, "Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born."

9 God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband, wasn't with her.

10 The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, "Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the [other] day."

11 Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to the woman?" He said, "I am."

12 Manoah said, "Now let your words happen. What shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do to him?"

13 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe."

15 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "Please, let us detain you, that we may make a young goat ready for you."

16 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh." For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.

17 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?"

18 The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?"

19 So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

20 For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

21 But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.

22 Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."

23 But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these."

24 The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

25 The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.