![]() And word from the LORD was rare in those days, visions were infrequent. Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD before Eli. Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control- for Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies. If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. Proverbs 14:21 Proverbs 16:20.) Septuagint, "There shall be no interpreter to a sinful nation, but he that keepeth the Law is most blessed." But he that keepeth the Law, happy is he! "The Law" (torah) is not merely the written Mosaic Law, but the announcement of God's will by the mouth of his representatives and the thought is, not the blessedness of those who in a time of anarchy and irreligion keep to the authorized enactments of the Sinaitic legislation, but a contrast between the lawlessness and ruin of a people uninfluenced by religious guidance, and the happy state of those who obey alike the voice of God, whether conveyed in written statutes or by the teaching of living prophets. Thus the importance of prophecy in regulating the life and religion of the people is fully acknowledged by the writer, in whose time, doubtless, the prophetical office was in full exercise: but this seems to be the only passage in the book where such teaching is directly mentioned the instructors and preceptors elsewhere introduced as disseminating the principles of the chochmah being parents, or tutors, or professors, not inspired prophets. We note the license of Eli's time, when there was no open vision (1 Samuel 3.) in Asa's days, when Israel had long been without a teaching priest (2 Chronicles 15:3) and when the impious Ahaz "made Judah naked" (2 Chronicles 28:19) or when the people were destroyed by reason of lack of knowledge of Divine things (Hosea 4:6). The fatal effect of the absence of such revelation of God's will is stated to be confusion, disorder, and rebellion the people, uncontrolled, fall into grievous excesses, which nothing but high principles can restrain. The prophets were the instructors of the people in Divine things, standing witnesses of the truth and power of religion, teaching a higher than mere human morality. 19 A slave will not be instructed by words alone for though he understands, there will be no response.… Proverbs 29:18 King James Version (KJV)ġ8 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. 18 Where there no vision the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law. 17 Correct your son, and he will give you comfort He will also delight your soul.
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