Exodus 1, 22
BREVIARY ON THE DAY OF TODAY CAN 'PONDER THIS WRITING.
These are the names of the sons of Israel came into Egypt with Jacob, and everyone arrived with his family: Reuben, Simeon, Levi e Giuda, 3 Issacar, Zàbulon e Beniamino, Dan e Nèftali, Gad e Aser. Tutte le persone nate da Giacobbe erano settanta, Giuseppe si trovava già in Egitto.
Giuseppe poi morì e così tutti i suoi fratelli e tutta quella generazione. I figli d'Israele prolificarono e crebbero, divennero numerosi e molto potenti e il paese ne fu ripieno.
Allora sorse sull'Egitto un nuovo re, che non aveva conosciuto Giuseppe. E disse al suo popolo:
«Ecco che il popolo dei figli d'Israele è più numeroso e più forte di noi. Prendiamo provvedimenti nei suoi riguardi per impedire che aumenti, Otherwise, in case of war, will join our enemies, and fight against us and then leave the country. " Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with hard labor for their claims, and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, ie Pitom and Ramses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew, they began to feel like a nightmare because of the children of Israel. why the Egyptians made the Israelites work treating them harshly. They made their love life by forcing them to manufacture clay bricks and all sorts of work in the fields and at all These works forced them harshly.
And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of which was called Sifra and the other Puah: "When Jewish women at the delivery, when the baby is still observed between the two sides of seat for the delivery: whether it is a male, you will die if it is a female, can live. " But the midwives feared God did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, and let the children live. The king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them: "Why have you done this and have saved the men children alive?". The midwives said to Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian are full of vitality: before it arrives at the midwife of them have already given birth. " Therefore God midwives. The people multiplied and became very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them houses. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: "Every child that is born to the Hebrews, threw him into the Nile, but let every daughter live."
read and reflect.
When I read these passages, my understanding of grace, opens the understanding of who God is, what he wants from us and how we should be in respect of the brothers also if foreign, but still her children. The Egyptians with their presumption to believe that the pharaoh was God not listening to those who brought to them the true Word of God, have created many disasters and suffering, suffering of those fears are typical of those who do not want to give what he has, even at other peoples. If we rebel to events that may seem strange, the Lord is still ahead with his project. In fact we see today do not know what in the name of God, Christians oppress, persecute you, but at the same time many Christians in interest or power oppress other people using them just as has happened to the Jews in Egypt. I know that man as long as there always will be clean, but then I wonder: what came to Christ? He taught us how to be as welcome as love, how to forgive and how to give. We all know that a nation must be able to control the movements of peoples that live within them surely even the mob, but to give to those who want to work a welcome worthy of a human being, not persecute them with unnerving procedures and giving them a decent work of a human being in this way bringing peace.
I also know that it is not easy, but a pleasant people know how to put peace in peace those who for various reasons, religious and political leaders do not know that peace comes to us first, and if we have the also give.
You see a moving world, which migrates with a supersonic speed, suffering people, hungry, thirsty, very poor due to national policies and abuse of power, but also that our economy does nothing to lend a hand, indeed, often due to lucrative profits, speculating on its poorest.
Scripture tells us that the years pass and the family of Joseph is gone now, but the Israelites who were afraid to put prolific pharaoh convinced of losing power and glory.
times do not change, man is always that.
But the nice thing about this reading is the figure of Midwives, which being Jewish, were well aware of their God, and have operated according to His will.
Here I am reminded of our society that kills children for birth control and to give the false freedom that leads to nothing but the destruction of the people.
In Italy we see that people are afraid of the children of foreigners, they are, are prolific and because of that will one day be a work force that we're losing because a society that is now old.
Se noi prendessimo nella mano sinistra il giornale e nella destra la Bibbia, leggendoli scopriremmo come i tempi ritornano e gli errori che l’uomo fa si ripetono. Ma un popolo cristiano non dovrebbe operare in modo diverso? Non dovrebbe proporre leggi per la vita, per la pace, per una giusta solidarietà?
La storia ci dovrebbe educare, si vede bene leggendo questo brano che gli Egiziani avevano perso la memoria storica di chi erano gli Ebrei e quale Dio adoravano. Però, nonostante la scelta di far morire tutti i bambini maschi del popolo Ebraico, Dio salvò Mosè, e tutti gli Israeliti alla fine furono ugualmente liberati ma la peggio l’hanno the Egyptians had with the 10 disasters.
This should give us pause.
