Bible Study Leftover
Posted by william on Jan 21st, 2009
Today we talked about the readings of Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The reading from 1 Samuel 3, wherein God calls to young Samuel but the boy thinks he is hearing the voice of Eli (Heli in my Douay-Rheims version) in the Temple at Shiloh, led to a question about what kind of punishment came to Eli and his family. God said: “I swear it to the house of Eli — neither sacrifice nor offering shall ever expiate the guilt of the House of Eli. None of us could shed much light on the matter, but now in glancing at my Bible I see it is well answered in the very next chapter.
