Kniha Múdrosti

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Múd 19, 1-20

1 But the impious, all the way to the very end, were overcome by anger without mercy. Indeed, he knew beforehand even their future. 2 Yet, seeing that they might have repented, so that they would be led by him and be sent forth with great concern, the just sought the impious, while regretting their deeds. 3 For, while the just were still holding grief in their hands and weeping at the tombs of the dead, these others took upon themselves another senseless thought, and they cast out the legislators and pursued them as if they were fugitives. 4 For a fitting necessity was leading them to this end, and they were losing the remembrance of those things which had 372 happened, so that what was lacking in the sufferings of the conflict might be completed by the punishment, 5 and so that your people, indeed, might wonderfully pass through, but these others might find a new death. 6 For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, diligently serving your teachings, so that your children would be preserved unharmed. 7 For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea, a way without hindrance, and out of the great deep, a level field sprung up, 8 through which the whole nation passed, protected by your hand, seeing your miracles and wonders. 9 For they consumed food like horses, and they leapt about like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who had freed them. 10 For they were still mindful of those things which had happened during the time of their sojourn, how, instead cattle, the earth brought forth flies, and instead of fish, the river cast up a multitude of frogs. 11 And, lastly, they saw a new kind of bird, when, being led by their desire, they demanded a feast of meat. 12 For, to console their loss, the quail came up to them from the sea, and yet troubles overcame the sinners, though they were not without the evidence of what had happened before by the power of lightning, for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness. 13 And indeed, they set up a more detestable inhospitality. Certainly, some have refused to receive unknown foreigners, but these others were drafting good guests into servitude, 14 and not only foreigners, but also those who had been under their care, because they were reluctantly sheltering the outsiders. 15 Yet whoever had sheltered them with gladness, by making use of the very same justice, they afflicted with the most severe sorrow. 16 Yet they were struck with blindness, like someone brought before the gates of justice, so that they were suddenly covered with darkness, and each one was left searching for the threshold of his front door. 17 For the elements in themselves are in the process of being changed, just as when the sound of a musical instrument is being altered in quality, yet each one keeps its own sound, from where it is considered to be and according to its fixed appearance. 18 For the countryside was transformed by water, and things which were swimming, crossed over the land. 19 Fire prevailed in the midst of water, beyond its own power, and the water forgot its quenching nature. 20 On the other hand, the flames did not trouble the bodies of the mortal animals walking around, nor did they melt that good food, which is as easily melted as ice. For in all things, O Lord, you magnified your people, and honored them, and did not despise them, but at every time and in every place, you assisted them.

Mud 19,1 - Boh predvídal budúce správanie sa Egypťanov, že oľutujú prepustenie Izraelitov a budú ich svojím vojskom prenasledovať.

Mud 19,4 - K mukám desiatich rán, ktoré pretrpeli, chýbala Egypťanom ešte záhuba vojska v Červenom mori.

Mud 19,6 - Aby Izraeliti mohli prejsť cez more, dostali tvory na čas prechodu iné vlastnosti, než mali pôvodne.

Mud 19,9 - Rozumej: Izraeliti boli plní radosti ako kone a baránky na paši. Chválospev, ktorý spievali, pozri Ex 15,1 n.

Mud 19,10-12 - Keď chcel Boh Egypťanov trestať a Izraelitom pomôcť, muchy sa liahli zo zeme, žaby z vody. Týmto obrazom chce svätopisec živo predstaviť ne– obyčajné množstvo múch a žiab.

Mud 19,13 - Červené more sa zavrelo nad egyptským vojskom, keď Mojžiš na Boží rozkaz vystrel nad ním svoju palicu (Ex 14,26 n.). Ale Boh už predtým búrkou upozornil Egypťanov na nešťastie, ktoré ich čaká v mori (Ex 14,24).

Mud 19,14 - Egypťania nenávideli cudzích Izraelitov, hoci im Izraelita Jozef kedysi preukázal neobyčajné dobrodenia.

Mud 19,15-17 - Svätopisec prirovnáva Egypťanov Sodomitom. Títo neprijali Lota a jeho spoločníkov, ale pri súde predsa len bude možno brať na nich ohľad, pretože to boli cudzinci, ku ktorým sa zachovali neľudsky (Gn 19,4 n.). Ale Egypťania prijali Izraelitov s veľkými oslavami (Gn 45,18–20), dali im aj rovnoprávnosť a osobitnú krajinu (Gn 47,5 n.), potom ich však zotročovali. Sodomiti boli potrestaní slepotou, keď sa chceli na Lotových spoločníkoch dopustiť neprávosti (Gn 19,11). Egyptská tma sa tiež rovnala slepote.

Mud 19,18 - Ako hudobník zamieňa a spája zvuky rozličných strún, podobne Boh, ak chce pomocou tvorov robiť mimoprirodzené zázraky, ani nemusí meniť podstatu vecí, len ich vždy ináč usporiada, o čom sa možno presvedčiť, keď uvážime zázraky, ktoré sa stali pri východe Izraelitov z Egypta. Svätopisec to v nasledujúcich veršoch niekoľkými príkladmi dokáže.

Mud 19,19 - "Suchozemské živočíchy" možno rozumieť len o zvieratách Izraelitov, ktoré, keď prechádzali cez Červené more, chodili na miestach, kde bývali len zvieratá vodné. Vodné zvieratá, čo vystúpili na zem, sú žaby.

Mud 19,20 - Pozri 16,16–24. Začiatok verša 21 rozumej: Plamene nespálili krehké telá zvierat, ktoré sa do nich (do plameňov) dostali. – Ľadovcu podobný pokrm z neba je manna.