1 Samuele 2:33

33 E colui de’ tuoi, il quale io non avrò sterminato d’appresso al mio Altare, sarà per consumarti gli occhi, e accorarti l’anima; e chiunque sarà nato e cresciuto in casa tua morrà in fior d’età.

1 Samuele 2:33 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 2:33

And the man of thine
. Of his family, which should spring from him: whom I shall not cut off from mine altar: from serving there: who though he shall not be an high priest, but a common priest, as all the descendants of Aaron were,

shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart;
that is, the eyes and heart of his posterity; who though they should see of their family ministering in the priest's office, yet should make so poor a figure on account of their outward meanness and poverty, or because of their want of wisdom, and intellectual endowments, or because of their scandalous lives, that it would fill their hearts with grief and sorrow, and their eyes with tears, so that their eyes would fail, and be consumed, and their hearts be broken:

and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their
age;
or "die men" F11; grown men, not children, when it would not be so great an affliction to part with them; but when at man's estate, in the prime of their days, perhaps about thirty years of age, the time when the priests entered upon their office to do all the work of it; the Targum is,

``shall be killed young men:''

it is more than once said in the Talmud F12, that there was a family in Jerusalem, the men of which died at eighteen years of age; they came and informed Juchanan ben Zaccai of it; he said to them, perhaps of the family of Eli are ye, as it is said, ( 1 Samuel 2:33 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F11 (Myvna wtwmy) "morientur viri", Montanus, Tigurine version; "morientur virile aetate", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so V. L.
F12 T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 18. 1. & Yebamot, fol. 105. 1.

1 Samuele 2:33 In-Context

31 Ecco, i giorni vengono, che io riciderò il braccio a te, e alla casa di tuo padre, e farò che non vi sarà alcuno in casa tua che diventi vecchio.
32 E tu vedrai l’afflizione del Tabernacolo, in luogo di tutto il bene che Iddio avea fatto a Israele; e non vi sarà giammai alcuno in casa tua che diventi vecchio.
33 E colui de’ tuoi, il quale io non avrò sterminato d’appresso al mio Altare, sarà per consumarti gli occhi, e accorarti l’anima; e chiunque sarà nato e cresciuto in casa tua morrà in fior d’età.
34 E questo, che avverrà a’ tuoi due figliuoli, Hofni e Finees, che morranno amendue in uno stesso giorno, ti sarà per segno.
35 Ed io mi susciterò un sacerdote leale; esso opererà secondo il mio cuore, e secondo l’anima mia; ed io gli edificherò una casa stabile, ed egli andrà e verrà davanti al mio Unto del continuo.
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