Geremia 35:6

6 Ma quelli risposero: "Noi non beviamo vino; perché Gionadab, figliuolo di Recab, nostro padre, ce l’ha proibito, dicendo: Non berrete mai in perpetuo vino, né voi né i vostri figliuoli;

Geremia 35:6 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 35:6

But they said, we will drink no wine
Or "we do not drink wine" ^F5; we are not used to it; we never do drink any; it is not lawful for us to do it; nor will we, let who will solicit us: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father;
not their immediate father, but their progenitor; perhaps the same Jonadab is meant who lived in the times of Jehu, and rode with him in his chariot; by which it appears he was a man of note and figure, and who lived near three hundred years before this time, ( 2 Kings 10:15 ) ; which is more likely than that he should be a descendant of his, and the proper father of the present Rechabites, which is the opinion of Scaliger ^F6: commanded us, saying, ye shall drink no wine, [neither ye], nor your
sons, for ever;
as long as any of them were in the world. What was the reason of this command, and of what follows, is not easy to say; whether it was to prevent quarrels and contentions, luxury and sensuality; or to inure them to hardships; or to put them in remembrance that they were but strangers in the land in which they lived; or to retain them in the original course of life their ancestors had lived in, feeding cattle; be it what it will, these his sons thought themselves under obligations to observe it; and perhaps finding, by experience, it was for their good so to do.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Nyy htvn al) "non hibimus vinum", Vatablus, Schmidt.
F6 Elench. Trihaeres. Serrar. c. 24.

Geremia 35:6 In-Context

4 e li menai nella casa dell’Eterno, nella camera de’ figliuoli di Hanan, figliuolo d’Igdalia, uomo di Dio, la quale era presso alla camera de’ capi, sopra la camera di Maaseia, figliuolo di Shallum, guardiano della soglia;

5 e misi davanti ai figliuoli della casa dei Recabiti dei vasi pieni di vino e delle coppe, e dissi loro: "Bevete del vino".

6 Ma quelli risposero: "Noi non beviamo vino; perché Gionadab, figliuolo di Recab, nostro padre, ce l’ha proibito, dicendo: Non berrete mai in perpetuo vino, né voi né i vostri figliuoli;

7 e non edificherete case, non seminerete alcuna semenza, non pianterete vigne, e non ne possederete alcuna, ma abiterete in tende tutti i giorni della vostra vita, affinché viviate lungamente nel paese dove state come forestieri.

8 E noi abbiamo ubbidito alla voce di Gionadab, figliuolo di Recab, nostro padre, in tutto quello che ci ha comandato: non beviamo vino durante tutti i nostri giorni, tanto noi, che le nostre mogli, i nostri figliuoli e le nostre figliuole;