Resultados para: "VENTRILOQUISM"
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Comentários Bíblicos (2) Exegese Clássica
them . . . familiar spirits--necromancers, spirit charmers. So Saul, when he had forsaken God (Sa1 28:7, &c.), consulted the witch of En-dor in his difficulties. These follow in the wake of idolatry, which prevailed under Ahaz (Kg2 16:3-4, Kg2 16:10). He cop... <p>Seek unto--Consult in your national difficulties.
them . . . familiar spirits--necromancers, spirit charmers. So Saul, when he had forsaken God (Sa1 28:7, &c.), consulted the witch of En-dor in his difficulties. These follow in the wake of idolatry, which prevailed under Ahaz (Kg2 16:3-4, Kg2 16:10). He copied the soothsaying as he did the idolatrous "altar" of Damascus (compare Lev 20:6, which forbids it, Isa 19:3).
wizards--men claiming supernatural knowledge; from the old English, "to wit," that is, know.
peep--rather "chirp faintly," as young birds do; this sound was generally ascribed to departed spirits; by ventriloquism the soothsayers caused a low sound to proceed as from a grave, or dead person. Hence the Septuagint renders the Hebrew for "necromancers" here "ventriloquists" (compare Isa 29:4).
mutter--moan.
should not, &c.--The answer which Isaiah recommends to be given to those advising to have recourse to necromancers.
for the living, &c.--"should one, for the safety of the living, seek unto (consult) the dead?" [GESENIUS]. LOWTH renders it, "In place of (consulting) the living, should one consult the dead?"</p>
Dicionários & Enciclopédias (1) Dicionários Históricos
<p>Seek unto--Consult in your national difficulties.
them . . . familiar spirits--necromancers, spirit charmers. So Saul, when he had forsaken God (Sa1 28:7, &c.), consulted the witch of En-dor in his difficulties. These follow in the wake of idolatry, which prevailed under Ahaz (Kg2 16:3-4, Kg2 16:10). He copied the soothsaying as he did the idolatrous "altar" of Damascus (compare Lev 20:6, which forbids it, Isa 19:3).
wizards--men claiming supernatural knowledge; from the old English, "to wit," that is, know.
peep--rather "chirp faintly," as young birds do; this sound was generally ascribed to departed spirits; by ventriloquism the soothsayers caused a low sound to proceed as from a grave, or dead person. Hence the Septuagint renders the Hebrew for "necromancers" here "ventriloquists" (compare Isa 29:4).
mutter--moan.
should not, &c.--The answer which Isaiah recommends to be given to those advising to have recourse to necromancers.
for the living, &c.--"should one, for the safety of the living, seek unto (consult) the dead?" [GESENIUS]. LOWTH renders it, "In place of (consulting) the living, should one consult the dead?"</p>
<p>Jerusalem shall be as a captive, humbled to the dust. Her voice shall come from the earth as that of the spirit-charmers or necromancers (Isa 8:19), faint and shrill, as the voice of the dead was supposed to be. Ventriloquism was doubtless the trick caused to make the voice appear to come from the earth (Isa 19:3). An appropriate retribution that Jerusalem, which consulted necromancers, should be made like them!</p>