Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 3:7

7 Nàshí Sǎmǔĕr hái wèi rènshi Yēhéhuá , yĕ wèi dé Yēhéhuá de mò shì .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 3:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 3:7

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord
He knew that Jehovah, the God of Israel, was the true God; he had spiritual knowledge of him, and knew somewhat of his word and worship, ways and ordinances, in which he had been instructed by Eli; wherefore, though the Targum is,

``Samuel had not yet learned to know doctrine from the Lord;''

it can only be understood, that he had not learnt it perfectly; somewhat he knew of it, but in an imperfect manner, being a child: but the sense of the word is, that as yet he was ignorant that God had used to speak with ordinary and familiar voice to men, as Maimonides says {s}; he perhaps had never heard of any such thing, and much less was experimentally acquainted with it, that God ever did speak after such a manner to men, and could not distinguish between the voice of God and the voice of Eli:

neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him;
what of the written word that was in being he had, and read, as the law of Moses; but the meaning is, that no word of prophecy of the Lord was revealed unto him, as the Targum; he never had prophesied as yet, and knew not the form and manner of prophecy, as the above writer observes, or what methods God took to reveal himself, his mind and will, to men, at least not this by an audible voice.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 44.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 3:7 In-Context

5 Jiù paó dào Yǐlì nàli , shuō , nǐ hūhuàn wǒ . wǒ zaì zhèlǐ . Yǐlì huídá shuō , wǒ méiyǒu hūhuàn nǐ , nǐ qù shuì ba . tā jiù qù shuì le .

6 Yēhéhuá yòu hūhuàn Sǎmǔĕr . Sǎmǔĕr qǐlai , dào Yǐlì nàli , shuō , nǐ hūhuàn wǒ . wǒ zaì zhèlǐ . Yǐlì huídá shuō , wǒde ér , wǒ méiyǒu hūhuàn nǐ , nǐ qù shuì ba .

7 Nàshí Sǎmǔĕr hái wèi rènshi Yēhéhuá , yĕ wèi dé Yēhéhuá de mò shì .

8 Yēhéhuá dì sān cì hūhuàn Sǎmǔĕr . Sǎmǔĕr qǐlai , dào Yǐlì nàli , shuō , nǐ yòu hūhuàn wǒ . wǒ zaì zhèlǐ . Yǐlì cái míngbai shì Yēhéhuá hūhuàn tóngzǐ .

9 Yīncǐ Yǐlì duì Sǎmǔĕr shuō , nǐ réng qù shuì ba . ruò zaì hūhuàn nǐ , nǐ jiù shuō , Yēhéhuá a , qǐng shuō , púrén jìng tīng . Sǎmǔĕr jiù qù , réng shuì zaì yuán chù .