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2:7. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:
2:8. He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from
the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of
glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath
set the world.
2:9. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent
in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.
2:10. The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he
thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and
he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his
Christ.
2:11. And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child ministered
in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the priest.
2:12. Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the
Lord,
2:13. Nor the office of the priests to the people: but whosoever had
offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest came, while the flesh was
in boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand,
2:14. And thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the
pot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest
took to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came to Silo.
2:15. Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came,
and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the
priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.
2:16. And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to
day, according to the custom, and then take to thee as much as thy soul
desireth. But he answered, and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt give
it me now, or else I will take it by force.
2:17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the
Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.
2:18. But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child
girded with a linen ephod.
2:19. And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on
the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the
solemn sacrifice.
2:20. And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The Lord
give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord.
And they went to their own home.
2:21. And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons,
and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord.
2:22. Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all
Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the
tabernacle:
2:23. And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I
hear, very wicked things, from all the people?
2:24. Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you
make the people of the Lord to transgress.
2:25. If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his
behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him?
And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord
would slay them.
Who shall pray for him... By this word Heli would have his sons
understand, that by their wicked abuse of sacred things, and of the very
sacrifices which were appointed to appease the Lord, they deprived
themselves of the ordinary means of reconciliation with God; which was
by sacrifices. The more, because they were the chief priests whose
business it was to intercede for all others, they had no other to offer
sacrifices and to make atonement for them. Ibid. Because the Lord would
slay them... In consequence of their manifold sacrileges, he would not
soften their hearts with his efficacious grace, but was determined to
destroy them.
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