Giudici 13:10

10 La donna corse in fretta a informar suo marito del fatto, e gli disse: "Ecco, quell’uomo che venne da me l’altro giorno, m’è apparito".

Giudici 13:10 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 13:10

And the woman made haste, and ran
It is not improbable what Josephus says ^F13, that she entreated the angel to stay a little till she fetched her husband, which he assented to, and then made all the haste she could to him, partly through eagerness to acquaint him with it, and partly that she might not make the prophet she took him to be wait too long:

and showed her husband;
that his prayer was heard:

and said unto him, behold, the man hath appeared unto me that came unto
me the [other] day;
or, as the Targum, "this day"; so Kimchi and Ben Melech; for the word "other" is not in the text. It is very probable it was the same day he came again he had appeared to her; perhaps it was in the former part of the day he first came to her, when she went home to her husband, and acquainted him with it, who prayed to the Lord that he might be sent again; and then she returned to her place in the field, and in the latter part of the day the angel appeared again.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 3.

Giudici 13:10 In-Context

8 Allora Manoah supplicò l’Eterno, e disse: "O Signore, ti prego che l’uomo di Dio mandato da te torni di nuovo a noi e c’insegni quello che dobbiam fare per il bambino che nascerà".

9 E Dio esaudì la preghiera di Manoah; e l’angelo di Dio tornò ancora dalla donna, che stava sedendo nel campo; ma Manoah, suo marito, non era con lei.

10 La donna corse in fretta a informar suo marito del fatto, e gli disse: "Ecco, quell’uomo che venne da me l’altro giorno, m’è apparito".

11 Manoah s’alzò, andò dietro a sua moglie, e giunto a quell’uomo, gli disse: "Sei tu che parlasti a questa donna?" E quegli rispose: "Son io".

12 E Manoah: "Quando la tua parola si sarà verificata, qual norma s’avrà da seguire per il bambino? e che si dovrà fare per lui?"