에스겔 21:15의 인용 해설

His lightnings His brilliant lights, an expression of (Ezek. 21:15): “It is polished that it may glitter (ברק).”

We find another ambiguous usage of beni in Scripture due to the theme and context. When Ezekiel depicts the cruel and powerful sword of Nebuchadnezzar, he says: A sword! A sword has been sharpened and polished. It has been sharpened to inflict slaughter; [therefore] it has been ground to a brilliant polish. How can we rejoice? Beni – My son – it scorns the rod and every stick…. There is a trial; and what if he disdains even the rod? It shall not be, says the Lord God.”⁹Ezekiel 21:14, 15, 18. On the whole, this statement [of Ezekiel] is difficult to understand, and in particular, the usage of the word beni, which represents longing, does not belong here [in the context of slaughter].

And one has not sharpened its edge. And they are not sharpened and burnished,¹⁶קלקל is a double form of קלל, as in נחשת קלל [=burnished brass], in Yechezkeil 1:7. (Ibn Ezra) [as in,] “in order that they may glitter.”¹⁷Yechezkeil 21:15. The text in our editions reads למען היה לה ברק [=in order that it may glitter]. Nonetheless, it still strengthens the armies. It strengthens the mighty men of the armies in battle to be victorious.

He will not be My son will no longer be in the world. Jonathan also rendered it “they will not exist,” but the rest of the verse he did not render in this [i.e., Rashi’s] way, but so it appears to me. I heard many explanations for it, and I saw [others] in books of interpretations, but they did not appear correct to me, and the ‘payat’ who composed for Chanukah [for the morning of the first Sabbath]: “That which disdained all wood stabbed the adulterer,” supports me, for he called the sword “that which disdained all wood.” Jonathan rendered in this manner: (verse 15) אוֹ נָשִׂישׂ. because the tribe of the house of Judah and Benjamin rejoiced at the tribes of Israel when they were exiled for worshipping idols, and they returned to stray after wooden images. He, too, explains אוֹ נָשִׂישׂ as a rhetorical question.

and its glittering blade Splendeur, or splendor (?) in French, like (Ezek. 21: 15), “in order that it glitter (ברק) .” Fourbir in Old French, to polish.

אם שנותי ברק חרבי means, IF I SHALL WHET THE BLADE OF MY SWORD, so that it shall have a flash (ברק); splendeur in old French