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7:19. And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went
into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the
watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap
the pitchers one against another.
Their trumpets, etc... In a mystical sense, the preachers of the gospel,
in order to spiritual conquests, must not only sound with the trumpet of
the word of God, but must also break their earthen pitchers, by the
mortification of the flesh and its passions, and carry lamps in their
hands by the light of their virtues.
7:20. And when they sounded their trurmpets in three places round about
the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their
left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and
they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon:
7:21. Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So
all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling, they fled away:
7:22. And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the
trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed
one another,
7:23. Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula, in
Tebbath. But the men of Israel, shouting from Nephthali, and Aser, and
from all Manasses, pursued after Madian.
7:24. And Gedeon sent messengers into all Mount Ephraim, saying: Come
down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the
Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them and
the Jordan as far as Bethbera.
7:25. And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew
in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued
Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon, beyond the waters
of the Jordan.
Two men... That is, two of their chiefs.
Judges Chapter 8
Gedeon appeaseth the Ephraimites. Taketh Zebee and Salmana. Destroyeth
Soccoth and Phanuel. Refuseth to be king. Maketh an ephod of the gold of
the prey, and dieth in a good old age. The people return to idolatry.
8:1. And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is this that thou meanest
to do, that thou wouldst not call us, when thou wentest to fight against
Madian? And they chid him sharply, and almost offered violence.
8:2. And he answered them: What could I have done like to that which you
have done? Is not one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the
vintages of Abiezer?
What could I, etc... A meek and humble answer appeased them; who
otherwise might have come to extremities. So great is the power of
humility both with God and man.
8:3. The Lord hath delivered into your hands the princes of Madian, Oreb
and Zeb: what could I have done like to what you have done? And when he
had said this, their spirit was appeased, with which they swelled
against him.
8:4. And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the
three hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could
not pursue after them that fled.
8:5. And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to
the people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue
Zebee, and Salmana, the kings of Madian.
8:6. The princes of Soccoth answered: Peradventure the palms of the
hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou demandest
that we should give bread to thy army.
8:7. And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered
Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the
thorns and briers of the desert.
8:8. And going up from thence, he came to Phanuel: and he spoke the like
things to the men of that place. And they also answered him, as the men
of Soccoth had answered.
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