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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 25.

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Scripture Notes.

THE LORD DO SO.

Ruth i, 17. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
The Lord do so, &c.] “This was a common form of an oath in those days and long after, both by God’s people and the heathen also, by which they imprecated some great evil to befall them if they did otherwise than they said.”—Assemb. Ann.

YOUNG MEN.

CHAP. ii, 21. And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
Young men.] “Though the word in the original be of the masculine gender, yet it signifies all young people, and particularly maidens.”—Patrick. So Hewlett, and the Sept. and Chal. See on verse 14, Reapers.”—Jenks.

HANNAH’S PROPHECY.

1 Sam. ii, 10. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of Heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
“When Hannah spake this song, there was no king over Israel, so that her words here must be prophetical, both of David, the type, and Christ, the Antitype. ‘Who doth not see that the spirit of this woman (whose name was Anna, which signifies grace,) prophesied of the Christian religion, the city of God, whose King and Founder is Christ; and of the grace of God, from which the proud are estranged, that they may fall; but the humble are filled with it, that they may rise?’—Augustin. ‘One cannot but think Hannah had a respect to something higher than the quarrel between her and Peninnah, &c.’—Bp. Patrick. This indeed is expressly saying very little; but it shows what the writer had in contemplation. As to Peninnah, on any interpretation, she can be considered no further, than merely as having given an occasion for this most sublime and sacred song, which may bear a comparison, or even competition, with the most beautiful and magnificent productions of any other inspired writer.”—Scott.

ELI’S DEATH.

CHAP. iv, 18. And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
Eli’s death, under a divine rebuke for his sins, has been a salutary warning to others, even to this present day; yet, in the circumstances of it, he testified his supreme regard to the honor of God, and the interests of religion, above all personal and relative considerations; and notwithstanding all his faults, he died in a lively exercise of love to God and his ordinances, and even by occasion of it.”—Scott.

GLORY OF ISRAEL.

VERSE 22. And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
“The presence and ordinances of God were the chief glory of Israel; and the loss of them was the departure of that glory. But if the wife of Phinehas supposed the Lord had finally departed from Israel, she greatly mistook. From Shiloh, indeed, the ark, the glory of Israel, was finally removed; for probably the inhabitants of that city had too much resembled the abandoned priests; as is generally the case, when such examples of sacerdotal impiety and profligacy are exhibited; but it was restored to Israel, and established in another place. (Ps. lxxviii, 61–64, 67–69; Jer. vii, 12–15.) Neither was the ruin of Eli’s family the destruction of the Aaronic priesthood. (Ch. ii, 35, 36.)”—Scott.