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The Pulpit Commentary — Judges
Arthur Charles Hervey [1808-1894] · 186,338 words · 202 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Judges — Section 181
doubt, in po.rt at least, because the expense the broad space or place near the gate, such of hiR daughter's maintenance would be trans- as is usual in an Oriental city (cf. Ruth forred from himself to his daughter's husband. iv. 1). There was no man that took them Ver. 4.-Retained him. See the same into hie house. Th…
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HOMILETICS. Yers. 1-30.-.The downward progress. It is certainly not without a purpose that we have in Holy Scripture from time to time exhibitions of sin in its most repulsive and revolting forms. The general rule which tells us that "it is a shame even to !'peak of those things which are done of them in secret" is…
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Vers. 14-21.-Exceptional hospitality. How welcome I Few of us but have at some time or other been belated in a strange place. We know nobody, and perhaps the people are reserved and suspicious. In such a ce.se one friend, the only one, and, like this man, depending upon daily work for daily bread, becomes of inestimabl…
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they will feel thnt the universal prevalence of a bad custom is no justification for their adoption of it. Yet how difficult it is to see our duty when this is contrary tc, the lrnbits of the society in which we live, und how much more difficult to be inde- pendent nnd firm in performing it! III. KINDNESS TO BTRANGEHS…
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EXPOSITION. was a national place of meeting in the time CHAPTER .XX. of Samuel is clear from 1 Sam. vii. 5-12, Ver. 1. Went out, i. e. from their several and we learn from ver. 16 of that same homes to the place of meeting. The congre• chapter that it was one of the places to which ga.tion. The technica.l term (not…
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phrase occurs 1 8nm. xiv. 88, nnd Isa. xix. the word nu,'aleh, wo will go up, which ha:, 13 (the stay of the tribes, A. V.). 'fhe num- since (perchance) fallen out of the Hebrew bers (400,000) are of course those of the text from its resemblance to the following whole congrogntion. The assembly of the word 'alelut agai…
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HOMILETICS. _',ers. 1-17.-Te~per. . It is impossible to suppose that the whole tribe nf Benja- n,m really SJ'mpath1sed with the foul deed of the men of Gibeah or could have felt othenvise than that such a deed deserved the severest punishn'.ient that could be inflicted. We mu_st s~ek the cause, ther1oret of their d…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 1.-Natwnal atonement. There are times when a nation is stirred to its depths. Its consciousness is then a religious one. A solemn unity of 11entiment pervades it, and prevails over all lesser differences. It is then ready an-:!. effective as the servant of the Lord. Observe- !. THE U…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 18.-The house of God. In this ren. ness of spirit, a deepened sense of dependence dering the A. V. follows the Vnlga,te, which upon God, and a softening of their feelings has in domwm, Dei, hoe est, in Silo. But the towards their brother Benjamin. All this Septuagint has Ba,9,jX, and all the ancien…
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Where I The naturctl answer to be given is, trict fully concur in this identification of At Bethel ; for Bethel is the only .Place that Gibeah-in-the-field with Jeba. hcte been ne.med. But it is not m accord- Ver. 32.-And the children of Benjamin, ance with the other intimcttions given us &c. This verse is parenthetic…
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and bnrning of Gibcah by the liel'!I in wait, I sc~bed in ver. 16, end desi~ates the Denja- the signal of n great smoke, and the turning m1tes who were not inhabitants of Gibeah. again of the flying Israelites. It was then The simplest way, tl1erefore, to understand that "the men of Benjamin saw that evil the passa,…
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If these 600 survivors o.re added to the 25,000, July 1880,' P. 173). The other is advocated or 25,100, enumernted as slain (vers. 35, by Mr. W. F. Birch (' Pal. Expl., Quart. 44), it gives o. total of 25,700. But the total State. for April 1880 '). This identifies it number of Benjamites, as given in ver. 15, with the…
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and etrife, l11shed them into madness. And so it is with ourselves. In wnr in po_lil:ics, in pri~ate quarrels,_ though_ we may begin by bein~ in the l'igh~, yet' the ongmal ceuB~ ~s often lost eight of m the progress of the s_tr1fe, nnd new JenlousieA, personal enm1t1es, selfish resentments, and unwarrantable violen…
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difficulty oJ: evangelising one's own neighbourhood; far less the world I Yet it has to be done, and it oan be done; but not in our own strength. Only as we submit ourselves wholly to God and his Son can we fulfil the mighty task. Let us too wait upon God, and pluck wisdom and heroism from defeat. The Spirit of God is …
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CHAPTER XXI. (Gen. xxxv. 22 ; xlix. 28 ; Exod. :u:tv. 4 ; Numb. i. 5-15; Josh. iv. 3, 4, &c.; Matt. Ver. l.-Now the men of Israel, &c. A xix. 28; Jamesi.1; Rev. vii. 4, &c.). With circumstance not mentioned before is now one tribe missing Israel would be no longer brought forward, as is another in ver. 5, on Israel…
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net David thanked them (2 Sam. ii. 5). The must be heirs to succeerl, and therefore we rnune of Jabcsli is only preserved in the must find wives for them. The wordpeleyfoh Wady Yabio, which debouches on the east- without the article can hardly mean the ern bank of the Jordan about !at. 32·24. remnant, as has ueen pr…
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is mm ting in the Hebrew), the sense is good. forced. Others, therefore, follow the Peschi to The lsraelites acknowledge their own fault in and read, "because TREY received not eacl: not reserving women enough to be wives to me,n his wife," &c., which makes very good the Benjamites, and ask the fathers and sense, but…
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ChriMtio.nity. He would indeed be o. benefactor of the human race who could dis- cover o.nd establish the machinery by which national qnarrels and disagreements could be settled hy some other arbitrament than that of the sword. Viewed even in an economic point of view, how great would the gain oe to nations if the half…
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Yem. 2-4.-Sorrow for others. I. IT IS NATURAL TO BE DISTRESSED AT THm i·noUDLES OF OTHERS. 1. It is natural on personal grounds. '\Ve are members one of another, so that if one member suffer, all suffer. The Israelites felt that it would be a common calamity to the whole nation for one tribe to be blotted out. It wo…
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to he, they hnd no right to shrink from it out of feelings of kindliness. It is terribl'3 to be called to such a duty; but it is brave and noble to accept the odium when the necessity ia felt, and weak nnd selfish to avoid it. Charity ia not honoured by the aucrifice of justice. It is more charitable to punish wickedne…
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CHAPTER II. CHAPTER IV'. The Expostulation 18 Bochim ... 19 The V11riety of God's Instruments. The Preaching of Repentance 20 The Weakness of God's Instru- Influence 21 ments 40 The Force of Pe:·sonal Testimony aml Temporary Influences and ll Perma- Influence 23 nent Tendency ... 41 Israel's Apostasy ... 23 The Battl…
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CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XX. Society without a Head ceasing to be Temper ... 200 Society 188 National Atonement 201 The History of a Me.n-made Ministry : Union 201 2. Its Abuse 189 Pure and Impure Zeal 205 Its Transfer e.nd Establishment in a The Difficulty of punishing Evil- Doers 206 Lawless Community 189 "They knew…
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