IBhayibheli

 

2 Samuel 9

Funda

   

1 Und David sprach: Ist noch jemand da, der vom Hause Sauls übriggeblieben ist, daß ich Güte an ihm erweise um Jonathans willen?

2 Es war aber ein Knecht vom Hause Sauls, sein Name war Ziba; und sie riefen ihn zu David. Und der König sprach zu ihm: Bist du Ziba? Und er sprach: Dein Knecht.

3 Und der König sprach: Ist niemand mehr da vom Hause Sauls, daß ich Güte Gottes an ihm erweise? Und Ziba sprach zu dem König: Es ist noch ein Sohn da von Jonathan, der an den Füßen lahm ist.

4 Und der König sprach zu ihm: Wo ist er? Und Ziba sprach zu dem König: Siehe, er ist im Hause Makirs, des Sohnes Ammiels, zu Lodebar.

5 Da sandte der König David hin und ließ ihn aus dem Hause Makirs, des Sohnes Ammiels, holen, von Lodebar.

6 Und Mephiboseth, der Sohn Jonathans, des Sohnes Sauls, kam zu David; und er fiel auf sein Angesicht und beugte sich nieder. Und David sprach: Mephiboseth! Und er sprach: Siehe, dein Knecht.

7 Und David sprach zu ihm: Fürchte dich nicht; denn ich will gewißlich Güte an dir erweisen um deines Vaters Jonathan willen, und will dir alle Felder deines Vaters Saul zurückgeben; du aber sollst beständig an meinem Tische essen.

8 Und er beugte sich nieder und sprach: Was ist dein Knecht, daß du dich zu einem toten Hunde gewandt hast, wie ich einer bin?

9 Da rief der König Ziba, den Diener (Eig. den Knaben, Knappen) Sauls, und sprach zu ihm: Alles, was Saul und seinem ganzen Hause gehört hat, habe ich dem Sohne deines Herrn gegeben.

10 Und du sollst ihm das Land bauen, du und deine Söhne und deine Knechte, und den Ertrag einbringen, damit der Sohn deines Herrn Brot zu essen habe. (W. Brot habe, und er es esse) Und Mephiboseth, der Sohn deines Herrn, soll beständig an meinem Tische essen. Und Ziba hatte fünfzehn Söhne und zwanzig Knechte.

11 Und Ziba sprach zu dem König: Nach allem, was mein Herr, der König, seinem Knechte gebietet, also wird dein Knecht tun. Und Mephiboseth, sprach der König, wird an meinem Tische essen, wie einer von den Königssöhnen.

12 Und Mephiboseth hatte einen kleinen Sohn, sein Name war Micha. Und alle, die im Hause Zibas wohnten, waren Mephiboseths Knechte.

13 Und Mephiboseth wohnte in Jerusalem, denn er beständig am Tische des Königs. Er war aber lahm an beiden Füßen.

   

Amazwana

 

Food

  
"The Chef" by Unknown Master, Spanish (active 17th century)

Just as natural food feeds the natural body, so too does spiritual food feed the spiritual body. And since our spiritual body is the expression of what we love, then spiritual food is what feeds our state of love: It is the desire for good, the delight of being good, the understanding of what it is to be good and the knowledge of all that's true and leads to what is good. So when food is talked about in the Bible, that's what it means, and the huge variety of forms food can take represent the huge variety of good we can seek in life and the huge variety of thought we can have leading to it.

(Izinkomba: Arcana Coelestia 680, 1695, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5576, 9003)

Okususelwe Emisebenzini kaSwedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #9003

Funda lesi Sigaba

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

9003. 'He shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and [her] marital rights' means no deprivation of inner life meant by 'food', nor of outer life meant by 'clothing', thus no deprivation of the joining together meant by 'marital rights'. This is clear from the meaning of 'food' as the sustaining of inner life, for in the spiritual sense 'food', both solid and liquid, is cognitions or the knowledge of good and truth, solid food being cognitions of good, 5147, and 'drink' cognitions of truth, 3168, 3772, so that 'food' is the things that nourish a person's spiritual life, 5293, 5576, 5579, 5915, 8562; from the meaning of 'clothing' as the sustaining of outer life, for in the spiritual sense 'clothing' or garments are inferior factual knowledge, this knowledge being that which spiritually sustains a person's outer life, 5248, 6918; from the meaning of 'marital rights' as a joining together; and from the meaning of 'not diminishing' as not depriving.

[2] The situation here is that a natural affection joined to a spiritual truth, which is meant by 'a female slave betrothed to a son', unceasingly needs to be sustained with life from the spiritual truth to which it has been joined; if the affection is not sustained from there it perishes. The situation with a person's affection is just the same as with the person himself; if he is not sustained by food he dies. Interiorly furthermore a person is nothing other than affection, one who is good being interiorly an affection for good and consequently for truth, and one who is evil being an affection for evil and consequently for falsity. This is especially evident in a person when he becomes a spirit; the sphere of life which then wells out of him is either one of affection for good or one of affection for evil. Now he is nourished or sustained not with natural food and drink but with spiritual, which for an evil spirit is falsity arising from evil, but for a good spirit is truth springing from good. The nourishment that people's minds receive in the world during their life in the body is nothing other. So it is that all kinds of food - bread, flesh, wine, water and many others - mean in the spiritual sense within the Word the kinds of food that constitute spiritual nourishment.

[3] All this also shows what one is to understand by the Lord's words in Matthew,

Man does not live by bread only but by every word that goes out of the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4.

Also what one should understand by His words in Luke,

You will eat and drink at My table in My kingdom. Luke 22:30.

And in Matthew,

I tell you that I shall not drink from now on of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom. Matthew 26:29.

The Lord spoke these words after He had instituted the Holy Supper, in which the bread and wine are elements which denote love and faith, in the same way as flesh and blood do. From this it can be clearly seen what the Lord's flesh and blood mean in John 6:49-58, especially in these words there,

My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. John 6:55.

In the Word 'flesh' means the good of love, see 3813, 7850, 'blood' the good of faith, 4735, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7846, 7850, 7877; and 'bread' and 'wine' have the same meanings, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 5915, 6118, 6377.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.