وجبـــــــة روحيـــــ(†)ــــــــــة يوميـــــــــة

[Mary Naeem]

رحبعام: هو ابن سليمان الحكيم لكن في جهالة لم يقبل مشورة الشيوخ الحكماء، فانقسمت المملكة في عهده إلى مملكتين:-
أ. مملكة يهوذا: تضم سبطي يهوذا وبنيامين عاصمتها أورشليم حيث هيكل الرب ملوكها الـ19 من عائلة داود ما عدا الملكة عثليا، دامت المملكة حوالي 450 سنة.
ب. مملكة إسرائيل تسمى أحيانًا أفرايم من أجل أنه أكبر الأسباط عددًا ومساحة أرض تضم العشرة أسباط الأخرى عاصمتها السامرة.

[Mary Naeem]

مملكة يهوذا:

تضم سبطي يهوذا وبنيامين عاصمتها
أورشليم حيث هيكل الرب ملوكها الـ19
من عائلة داود ما عدا الملكة عثليا،
دامت المملكة حوالي 450 سنة.

[Mary Naeem]

مملكة إسرائيل
تسمى أحيانًا أفرايم من أجل أنه أكبر
الأسباط عددًا ومساحة أرض
تضم العشرة أسباط الأخرى عاصمتها السامرة.

[Mary Naeem]

سبيين في عصر الملوك:-

كان أغلب ملوك إسرائيل أشرارا بينما كان كثير
من ملوك يهوذا صالحين لهذا سمح بتأديب إسرائيل فسباه أشور،
وعوض أن تأخذ مملكة يهوذا درسا من أختها إسرائيل صنعت
شرورا أبشع، فسقطت مملكة يهوذا تحت السبي البابلي
على ثلاث مراحل، هناك في السبي التقي الشعبان معا:
يهوذا وإسرائيل كشعب واحد تحت التأديب لمدة 70 عامًا.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

In the same episode of Abram's meeting with Melchizedek, we hear that Abram "gave him a tithe of all" (Gen.14: 20). How was it known, at the time of our Father Abraham, that the tenth were to be given to priests, except through Tradition? The Law of tithing had not yet been received in the written Law.
This also applies to our father Jacob: How did he know the idea of giving the tithe when he said to the Lord: "... and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You" (Gen.28: 22)? There is no doubt that he received the Law of tithing through Tradition, from his grandfather Abraham who offered the tithe to Melchizedek without receiving it from a written Law at all. It is obvious that Tradition was the teacher of all human beings before the written Law and remained so thereafter.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

We read that when Jacob was fleeing his brother Esau that he saw a ladder extending from earth to heaven, while the angels of God ascending and descending on it, and the Lord talked to him and gave him a promise. The Holy Bible says that Jacob said: "Surely the Lord is in this place... This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!" And he called that place Bethel, which means 'House of God'. He took the stone he had placed under his head, set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.

How did our father Jacob know the phrase ‘House of God'? How did he know the idea of consecrating. God’s houses by pouring oil on them since nothing of this sort had been given in a written Law? No explanation can be given except that it was through Tradition.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

When God gave the written Law He willed Tradition to remain as well,

. He commanded the fathers, on various occasions, to commend and entrust the teachings to their children. The Lord ordered them to inform their children of the occasion of sacrificing to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb (Ex. 13: 14-16). The Lord also said to the people: "Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren" (Deut.4: 9).

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

Even in Christianity, we find that some of the writers of the New Testament wrote information about events in the Old Testament which they had received through Tradition. For example, St. Paul the Apostle mentioned the names of the two witches who resisted Moses the Prophet. He said: "Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth" (2Tim.3: 8). We cannot find the names of these two witches either in the Books of Moses or in the rest of the Old Testament. The Apostle Paul must have known these names through Tradition.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

The entrustment of Tradition which occurred in the Old Testament recurred in the New Testament but to a lesser extent. A long time elapsed before there was any written gospel or epistle. For a period of approximately twenty years people received the entire faith, the entire story of Christ together with His teachings and His redemption, through Tradition.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

The Lord Jesus Christ did not write a gospel Himself nor did He leave a written gospel, yet He was preaching and teaching, leaving His words as spirit and life (John.6: 63) for the people who later spread them. When the Lord began His teaching and preaching, He said to the people: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel" (Mark.1: 15). There was no written gospel (Good News) but there was preaching of the Good News representing the oral Gospel or the Divine teaching which was taught through entrustment. The same meaning applies to the Lord's words to His disciples: "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark. 16: 15). That command was not within the written boundary.