Rissah

How Nave’s arranged it

• A camping place of the IsraelitesNumbers 33:21Numbers 33:22

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Numbers 33:21

   They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 33:211 voice

   “The next stage takes place in Ressa [Rissah], which could be put into our words as "visible or praiseworthy temptation." Why is it that however great the progress made by the soul nonetheless temptations are not taken away from it? Here it becomes clear that temptations are brought to it as a kind of protection and defense. For just as meat, if it is not sprinkled with salt, no matter how great and special it is, becomes rotten, so also the soul, unless it is somehow salted with constant temptations, immediately becomes feeble and soft.

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2. Numbers 33:22

   They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 33:222 voices

   From it they come to Macelath [Kehelathah], which is "sovereignty" or "staff." Power seems to be meant by both and that the soul has progressed so far as to rule over the body and to obtain by that the staff of power. Indeed, it is power not only over the body but also over the whole world that Paul means when he says, "By the cross the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."

   “Kehelathah - Utterly unknown; though some conjecture that it might have been the place called Keilah, 1Sa 23:1, etc., but this is unlikely. Stat. 19.

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