1 Samuel 2:27

GOD’S DENUNCIATORY MESSAGE TO ELI, 1 Samuel 2:27-36.

27. A man of God Either an angel from heaven, as was the one who appeared to Manoah and his wife, (Judges 13:8.) or a prophet, (1 Kings 13:1,) like unto Shemaiah or Elijah. 1Ki 12:22 ; 1 Kings 12:17-18. The expression is that commonly used of a prophet, an inspired human messenger, and is doubtless to be so understood here. This was before the age of prophets, and this man of God appears in the sacred history, like Melchizedek, without father, without mother, without beginning of days or end of life, and so may be regarded as a permanent type of that prophetic order that subsequently arose in Israel, and, by warnings and threatenings, rebuked the wickedness of the people, even in high places, and zealously guarded the interests of the theocracy. He bears no name, but, otherwise, his sudden appearance and fearful message at a time when prophecy was almost unknown in Israel, (1 Samuel 3:1, note,) are about as remarkable as the saintly appearance of Melchizedek in Abraham’s day.

Thy father Aaron.

When they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house God revealed himself to Aaron in Egypt when be sent him in the wilderness to meet Moses, (Exodus 4:27,) and as his mother and sister were intimate with members of the royal family, (Exodus 2:9-10,) so Aaron himself may have had some particular service or position in Pharaoh’s house. But Pharaoh’s house may mean the nation over whom he ruled.