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1 エフライムの地のラマタイム・ゾピムに、エルカナという名の人があった。エフライムびとで、エロハムのであった。エロハムはエリウの、エリウはトフの、トフはツフのである。

2 エルカナには、ふたりのがあって、ひとりの名はハンナといい、ひとりの名はペニンナといった。ペニンナには子どもがあったが、ハンナには子どもがなかった。

3 この人は年ごとに、そのからシロに上っていって、万を拝し、に犠牲をささげるのを常とした。シロには、エリのふたりの子、ホフニとピネハスとがいて、に仕える祭司であった。

4 エルカナは、犠牲をささげるペニンナとそのむすこにはみな、その分け前を与えた。

5 エルカナはハンナしていたが、彼女には、ただ一つの分け前を与えるだけであった。がその胎を閉ざされたからである。

6 また彼女を憎んでいる他の妻は、ひどく彼女を悩まして、がその胎を閉ざされたことを恨ませようとした。

7 こうして年は暮れ、年は明けたが、ハンナが主の宮に上るごとに、ペニンナは彼女を悩ましたので、ハンナは泣いて食べることもしなかった。

8 エルカナは彼女に言った、「ハンナよ、なぜ泣くのか。なぜ食べないのか。どうして心に悲しむのか。わたしはあなたにとって人のどもよりもまさっているではないか」。

9 シロで彼らが飲み食いしたのち、ハンナは立ちあがった。その時、祭司エリは主の神殿の柱のかたわらの座にすわっていた。

10 ハンナは心に深く悲しみに祈って、はげしく泣いた。

11 そして誓いを立てて言った、「万よ、まことに、はしための悩みをかえりみ、わたしを覚え、はしためを忘れずに、はしために男の子を賜わりますなら、わたしはその子を一生のあいだにささげ、かみそりをそのにあてません」。

12 彼女が主ので長く祈っていたので、エリは彼女のに目をとめた。

13 ハンナのうちで物を言っていたので、くちびるが動くだけで、声は聞えなかった。それゆえエリは、酔っているのだと思って、

14 彼女に言った、「いつまで酔っているのか。酔いをさましなさい」。

15 しかしハンナ答えた、「いいえ、わがよ。わたしは不幸な女です。ぶどう酒も濃い酒も飲んだのではありません。ただ主のに心を注ぎ出していたのです。

16 はしためを、悪い女と思わないでください。積る憂いと悩みのゆえに、わたしは今まで物を言っていたのです」。

17 そこでエリは答えた、「安心して行きなさい。どうかイスラエルのがあなたの求める願いを聞きとどけられるように」。

18 彼女は言った、「どうぞ、はしためにも、あなたのに恵みを得させてください」。こうして、その女は去って食事し、そのは、もはや悲しげではなくなった。

19 彼らは早く起きて、主のに礼拝し、そして、ラマにあるに帰って行った。エルカナはハンナを知り、が彼女を顧みられたので、

20 彼女はみごもり、その時が巡ってきて、男のを産み、「わたしがこのに求めたからだ」といって、その名をサムエルと名づけた。

21 エルカナその人とその族とはみな上っていって、年ごとの犠牲と、誓いの供え物とをささげた。

22 しかしハンナは上って行かず、に言った、「わたしはこの子が乳離れしてから、主のに連れていって、いつまでも、そこにおらせましょう」。

23 エルカナは彼女に言った、「あなたが良いと思うようにして、このの乳離れするまで待ちなさい。ただどうかがその言われたことを実現してくださるように」。こうしてその女はとどまって、そのに乳をのませ、乳離れするのを待っていたが、

24 乳離れした時、歳の雄牛一頭、麦粉一エパ、ぶどう酒のはいった皮袋一つを取り、その子を連れて、シロにある主の宮に行った。その子はなお幼かった。

25 そして彼らはその牛を殺し、子供をエリのもとへ連れて行った。

26 ハンナは言った、「わが君よ、あなたは生きておられます。わたしは、かつてここに立って、あなたの前で、に祈った女です。

27 この子を与えてくださいと、わたしは祈りましたが、はわたしの求めた願いを聞きとどけられました。

28 それゆえ、わたしもこの子をにささげます。この子は一生のあいだにささげたものです」。

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Exploring the Meaning of 1 Samuel 1

Napsal(a) Garry Walsh

The 1st Book of Samuel opens with a story about a man named Elkanah and his two wives, Peninnah and Hannah. Peninnah had children but Hannah didn't.

Every year the family went to worship the Lord at the tabernacle in Shiloh. Elkanah gave his wives something to offer to the Lord. He gave Hannah a double amount to offer because he specially loved her and wanted her to be blessed.

One year during their worship at the tabernacle, Hannah was very sad because she didn’t have any children. She cried and begged the Lord for a son as she prayed. She promised the Lord that if He gave her a son, she would give her son back to serve the Lord all his life.

Eli, the high priest, saw her mouth move as she prayed but didn’t hear any words. So, he thought that she was drunk. She explained that she wasn’t drunk but very sad and was praying to the Lord. Then Eli understood and sent her on her way with his blessing.

The Lord heard Hannah’s prayer and soon she had a son. She named her son Samuel, which means “God heard.”

Each year the family went to worship the Lord, but Hannah stayed home taking care of Samuel. Then, when Samuel was weaned and could live away from her, she took Samuel back to Shiloh, so he could spend his life there, learning from Eli, and serving the Lord. 

Sometimes, we are like Hannah. We may be sad because of something we don’t have or can’t do. We may feel that we will never be happy without this. When we ask the Lord to help us, he can show us the way to be truly happy now and forever.

The name “Hannah” means favor or grace. Hannah is like any of us, as we ask for the Lord’s grace to give us true happiness.

Hannah’s grief-filled prayer took place at the tabernacle in Shiloh. “Shiloh” means peace. In fact, Shiloh represents the kind of peace that only the Lord Himself can give. (See Arcana Coelestia 6373.) And what is the thing that is missing in someone’s life? Often, that missing thing is the truth. The more truth we have and the more we understand the Lord, and ourselves, and the path that our life should take, the more of that true happiness we can find. (See Apocalypse Explained 375:2, 3.)

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Arcana Coelestia # 2500

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2500. 'Abraham travelled from there towards the land of the south' means the Lord's advances in goods and truths of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'travelling' as advancing, dealt with in 1457, and from the meaning of 'the land of the south' as the good and truth of faith, dealt with in 1458. Previously in Chapter 12 it was said of Abraham when entering Egypt that 'he travelled, going on and travelling towards the south', verses 9-10, which meant in the internal sense that the Lord, when a boy, made advances into goods and truths as regards knowledge consisting of cognitions, 1456, 1459. Now in the present chapter it is said that he travelled towards the land of the south, which means further and more interior advances, made this time into goods and truths as regards the doctrine of faith. This is why the expression 'the land of the south' is used here, for 'land' in its proper sense means the Church, for whose sake doctrine exists, 566, 662, 1066, 2117, 2118.

[2] As regards the Lord's instruction in general, the nature of it is quite plain from the internal sense of this chapter. From that sense it is plain that He was taught through a whole succession of revelations and so through Divine perceptions and thoughts from Himself, that is, from His Divine. These perceptions and thoughts He implanted in Divine intelligence and wisdom, and continued to do so until the perfect union of His Human and His Divine had been effected. This way of becoming wise is not at all open to anyone else, for it sprang from the Divine itself, which was His inmost, being the Father's, from whom He had been conceived. Thus it sprang from the Divine Love itself which the Lord alone possessed and which constituted His desire to save the entire human race.

[3] It is an arcanum as yet known by scarcely anyone that love itself holds wisdom and intelligence within it, but that the nature of these is determined by that of the love. The reason wisdom and intelligence exist within love is that all influx takes place into the love, or what amounts to the same, into the good, and so into the life itself of man. This is the source of the wisdom and intelligence possessed by angels, which are beyond description. It is the source also of the wisdom and intelligence possessed by men who are governed by love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour. Although during their lifetime the latter do not discern at all the presence with them of such wisdom and intelligence, they nevertheless enter into these after death for the reason that they exist within love itself and within charity itself, see 2494. As for the Lord's love however, this was infinitely higher than the love which exists in angels, for it was Divine Love itself, and therefore He had within Himself the acme of all wisdom and intelligence. Yet into the possession of this, because He was born a human being (homo) and advanced as a human being does according to Divine order, He entered by successive degrees so that He might in that way unite His Human to the Divine and make it Divine, doing so by His own power.

  
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