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1 Samuel 28

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1 En ce temps-là, les Philistins rassemblèrent leurs troupes et formèrent une armée, pour faire la guerre à Israël. Akisch dit à David: Tu sais que tu viendras avec moi à l'armée, toi et tes gens.

2 David répondit à Akisch: Tu verras bien ce que ton serviteur fera. Et Akisch dit à David: Aussi je te donnerai pour toujours la garde de ma personne.

3 Samuel était mort; tout Israël l'avait pleuré, et on l'avait enterré à Rama, dans sa ville. Saül avait ôté du pays ceux qui évoquaient les morts et ceux qui prédisaient l'avenir.

4 Les Philistins se rassemblèrent, et vinrent camper à Sunem; Saül rassembla tout Israël, et ils campèrent à Guilboa.

5 A la vue du camp des Philistins, Saül fut saisi de crainte, et un violent tremblement s'empara de son coeur.

6 Saül consulta l'Eternel; et l'Eternel ne lui répondit point, ni par des songes, ni par l'urim, ni par les prophètes.

7 Et Saül dit à ses serviteurs: Cherchez-moi une femme qui évoque les morts, et j'irai la consulter. Ses serviteurs lui dirent: Voici, à En-Dor il y a une femme qui évoque les morts.

8 Alors Saül se déguisa et prit d'autres vêtements, et il partit avec deux hommes. Ils arrivèrent de nuit chez la femme. Saül lui dit: Prédis-moi l'avenir en évoquant un mort, et fais-moi monter celui que je te dirai.

9 La femme lui répondit: Voici, tu sais ce que Saül a fait, comment il a retranché du pays ceux qui évoquent les morts et ceux qui prédisent l'avenir; pourquoi donc tends-tu un piège à ma vie pour me faire mourir?

10 Saül lui jura par l'Eternel, en disant: l'Eternel est vivant! il ne t'arrivera point de mal pour cela.

11 La femme dit: Qui veux-tu que je te fasse monter? Et il répondit: Fais moi monter Samuel.

12 Lorsque la femme vit Samuel, elle poussa un grand cri, et elle dit à Saül: Pourquoi m'as-tu trompée? Tu es Saül!

13 Le roi lui dit: Ne crains rien; mais que vois-tu? La femme dit à Saül: je vois un dieu qui monte de la terre.

14 Il lui dit: Quelle figure a-t-il? Et elle répondit: C'est un vieillard qui monte et il est enveloppé d'un manteau. Saül comprit que c'était Samuel, et il s'inclina le visage contre terre et se prosterna.

15 Samuel dit à Saül: Pourquoi m'as-tu troublé, en me faisant monter? Saül répondit: Je suis dans une grande détresse: les Philistins me font la guerre, et Dieu s'est retiré de moi; il ne m'a répondu ni par les prophètes ni par des songes. Et je t'ai appelé pour que tu me fasses connaître ce que je dois faire.

16 Samuel dit: Pourquoi donc me consultes-tu, puisque l'Eternel s'est retiré de toi et qu'il est devenu ton ennemi?

17 L'Eternel te traite comme je te l'avais annoncé de sa part; L'Eternel a déchiré la royauté d'entre tes mains, et l'a donnée à un autre, à David.

18 Tu n'as point obéi à la voix de l'Eternel, et tu n'as point fait sentir à Amalek l'ardeur de sa colère: voilà pourquoi l'Eternel te traite aujourd'hui de cette manière.

19 Et même l'Eternel livrera Israël avec toi entre les mains des Philistins. Demain, toi et tes fils, vous serez avec moi, et l'Eternel livrera le camp d'Israël entre les mains des Philistins.

20 Aussitôt Saül tomba à terre de toute sa hauteur, et les paroles de Samuel le remplirent d'effroi; de plus, il manquait de force, car il n'avait pris aucune nourriture de tout le jour et de toute la nuit.

21 La femme vint auprès de Saül, et, le voyant très effrayé, elle lui dit: Voici, ta servante a écouté ta voix; j'ai exposé ma vie, en obéissant aux paroles que tu m'as dites.

22 Ecoute maintenant, toi aussi, la voix de ta servante, et laisse-moi t'offrir un morceau de pain, afin que tu manges pour avoir la force de te mettre en route.

23 Mais il refusa, et dit: Je ne mangerai point. Ses serviteurs et la femme aussi le pressèrent, et il se rendit à leurs instances. Il se leva de terre, et s'assit sur le lit.

24 La femme avait chez elle un veau gras, qu'elle se hâta de tuer; et elle prit de la farine, la pétrit, et en cuisit des pains sans levain.

25 Elle les mit devant Saül et devant ses serviteurs. Et ils mangèrent. Puis, s'étant levés, ils partirent la nuit même.

   

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After Failure, by Vasily Vereshchagin

For something to "fail" in the Bible means there is not enough understanding of truth and desire for good for someone to attain a higher spiritual state -- and possibly not enough to overcome false thoughts and the desire for evil at all. "Abate" has similar meaning but in an opposite sense, usually referring to the lessening of evil and falsity at the end of a state of temptation.

In Genesis 8:3, Deuteronomy 34:7, Judges 8:3, and Leviticus 27:18, the abating of the flood waters signifies the cessation of temptations. (Arcana Coelestia 843, 849)

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 857, 5969, 6122, 8395)

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8395. Exodus 16

1. And they travelled on from Elim, and all the assembly of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their coming out 1 of the land of Egypt.

2. And all the assembly of the children of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

3. And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died 2 by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by a pot of flesh, eating bread to the full! For you have brought us out to this wilderness, to kill all this congregation with hunger.

4. And Jehovah said to Moses, behold, I am causing it to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out and gather the thing of a day in its day, 3 in order that I may test them [to see] whether they walk in My law or not.

5. And it shall be on the sixth day, that they are to prepare what they have brought in; and it shall be double to what they shall gather day by day.

6. And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At evening you will know that Jehovah has brought you out of the land of Egypt.

7. And in the morning you will see the glory of Jehovah; He hears your grumblings against Jehovah, and what are we, that you grumble against us?

8. And Moses said, Jehovah is giving you flesh to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; Jehovah hears your grumblings which you make against Him. What are we? Your grumblings are not against us, but against Jehovah.

9. And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the assembly of the children of Israel, Come near before Jehovah, for He has heard your grumblings.

10. And so it was, as Aaron was speaking to all the assembly of the children of Israel, that they looked back towards the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah was seen in the cloud.

11. And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

12. I have heard the grumblings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, At evening 4 you will eat flesh, and in the morning you will be filled with bread; and you will know that I am Jehovah your God.

13. And it happened in the evening, that the selav 5 came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a deposit of dew around the camp.

14. And the deposit of dew went up, and behold, on the face of the wilderness a tiny round thing, tiny like hoar frost on the earth.

15. And the children of Israel saw it and said, a man to his brother, Man 6 is it? because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.

16. This is the thing 7 which Jehovah has commanded: Gather from it, each according to the mouth of his eating, an omer a head, [according to] the number of your souls; take it, each for whoever is in his tent.

17. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered it, [each] collecting it for a large number or for a few.

18. And they measured it with an omer, and no large number had more than enough and no few had less; they gathered, each according to the mouth of his eating.

19. And Moses said to them, Let no one leave any of it 8 until the morning

20. And they did not hear 9 Moses, and some did leave part of it 10 until the morning; and it bred worms and became putrid. And Moses was incensed with them.

21. And they gathered it morning by morning, each according to the mouth of his eating; and the sun grew hot, and it melted.

22. And so it was, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the princes of the assembly came and told Moses.

23. And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has spoken: [A day of] rest, a holy sabbath to Jehovah shall tomorrow be. Bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil; and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to keep until the morning.

24. And they put it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not become putrid, and there was no worm in it.

25. And Moses said, Eat it today, because today is a sabbath to Jehovah, today you will not find it in the field.

26. Six days you shall gather it; and on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will be none in it.

27. And so it was on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and did not find.

28. And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

29. See! Because Jehovah has given you the sabbath, therefore on the sixth day He gives you the bread of two days; rest, each of you in his place, 11 let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.

30. And the people rested on the seventh day.

31. And the house of Israel called its name Man; 12 and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like that of a cake with honey.

32. And Moses said, This is the thing 13 which Jehovah has commanded: Fill an omer with it to be kept for your generations, in order that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.

33. And Moses said to Aaron, Take a jar, and put an omerful of man[na] in it, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations.

34. As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

35. And the children of Israel ate the man[na] forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the man[na] until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

36. And an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

CONTENTS

The previous chapter dealt with the second temptation of those belonging to the spiritual Church, which arose because truth was perceived to be unpleasant. The present chapter deals in the internal sense with the third temptation, which arises because good is lacking. The lack of bread and flesh, which the children of Israel grumbled about, means a lack of good. Comfort after temptation is meant and described by the manna they received, and by the selav, the manna being spiritual good. The Lord constantly conferred this good on them, and without any care and aid on their part, which is meant by their receiving the manna every day and by the breeding of worms in it if they gathered too much.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, on the fifteenth day, to the second month, at their coming out

2. literally, Who will give? We should have died

3. i.e. a day's portion every day

4. literally, between the evenings

5. Swedenborg retains the Hebrew word, which he takes to mean some tend of bird of the sea; see 8452.

6. i.e. the Hebrew interrogative word What? from which the word manna is derived; see 8462.

7. or word

8. literally, Let not anyone make a residue from it

9. literally, hear towards

10. literally, and men (vir) made a residue out of it

11. literally, each under himself

12. Swedenborg retains the Hebrew word, which he takes to mean some tend of bird of the sea; see 8452.

13. or word

  
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