Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine/ويل للحكماء في أعين أنفسهم، العقلاء في نظر ذواتهم. ويل للأبطال في شرب الخمر، للجبابرة في مزج السكر
ويل للحكماء في أعين أنفسهم، العقلاء في نظر ذواتهم. ويل للأبطال في شرب الخمر، للجبابرة في مزج السكر
سفر النبي اشعيا 5/20-30/ويل للذين يدعون الشر خيرا والخير شرا، الجاعلين الظلام نورا والنور ظلاما، الجاعلين الحلو مرا والمر حلوا. ويل للحكماء في أعين أنفسهم، العقلاء في نظر ذواتهم. ويل للأبطال في شرب الخمر، للجبابرة في مزج السكر. ويل للذين يبررون الشرير لأجل رشوة، ويحرمون البريء حقه. فلذلك كما تأكل ألسنة النار القش، وكما يفنى الحشيش اليابس في اللهيب، يذهب كالعود النخر أصلهم ويتناثر كالغبار زهرهم. نبذوا شريعة الرب القدير واستهانوا بكلام قدوس إسرائيل. فحمي غضب الرب على شعبه، ومد يده عليهم وضربهم، حتى اهتزت الجبال وصارت جثثهم كالوحل في الأزقة. ومع هذا كله ما ارتد غضبه، ويده لا تزال مرفوعة عليهم. ويومئ إلى أمة بعيدة، ويصفر لها، فتخف مسرعة من أقصى الأرض. لا يتعب فيها أحد ولا يكل. لا ينام ولا ينعس. لا يحل حزامه ولا يفك رباط حذائه. سهامها مسنونة وكل قسيها مشدودة. حوافر خيلها كالصوان وعجلات مركباتها كالزوبعة. لها زئير اللبوة وكالأشبال تزأر وتزمجر وتخطف الفريسة ولا من ينقذ. في ذلك اليوم تزمجر تلك الأمة على شعب إسرائيل كزمجرة البحر، فإذا السواد والضيق في أرضها، والنور تحجبه الظلمة.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil Isaiah 5/21-30: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink; who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent! Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress.
Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands. Letter to the Ephesians 05/22-32: “Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Saviour. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, so as to present the church to himself in splendour, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, because we are members of his body. ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.
