Paramètres de lecture

Afficher les numéros de versets
Mode dyslexique
Police d'écriture
Taille de texte

Merci à Bibles et Publications Chrétiennes pour la conception du processus d’affichage DYS.

Un outil révolutionnaire de lecture et d'étude de la Bible en ligne. Démarrez dès aujourd'hui le plan de lecture offert dont vous avez besoin.

CRUAUTÉ

Ce vice, par lequel on prend plaisir à faire souffrir, n'est guère nommé dans la Bible ; l'adjectif (hébreu akzâr) y paraît quelques foiss, dans les condamnations de la fureur cruelle (Pr 27:4), de l'homme cruel (Pr 12:10), qui sera châtié (Pr 11:17), ou qui sera lui-même employé pour châtier le pécheur (Pr 5:9 17:11, Esa 19:4, Jer 6:23 30:14). Dans ses objurgations, Job reproche à Dieu d'être cruel envers lui (Job 30:21) ; le jour de JHVH est annoncé comme devant être cruel contre Baby-lone (Esa 13:9). St Paul prédit les méfaits de gens cruels, de loups cruels (Ac 20:29,2Ti 3:3). Pour la cruauté prétendue de l'autruche, voir (La 4:3, Job 39:19) ce mot. Enfin, par métaphore, il est question d'un cruel poison (De 32:33).

Mais si les termes sont rares, les exemples de cruauté ne le sont pas dans ces livres sacrés, où palpitent des siècles de la vie antique orientale telle que nous la connaissons aussi par d'innombrables documents profanes. L'un des plus anciens morceaux de la Bible est un chant sauvage de vendetta, où Lémec proclame le droit aux représailles (Ge 4:23 et suivant), régime inique de la vengeance arbitraire et du bon plaisir du plus fort. La coutume de l'interdit (voir ce mot), sans être cruelle en ce sens qu'elle exprimait non la soif du sang mais le sacrifice impitoyable à la divinité (De 20:17, Jos 6:21), attribuait cependant à JHVH des atrocités. Dans 2Sa 12:31, la rectification du texte enlève à David la responsabilité d'un supplice épouvantable (voir Four et Herse). Mais les Israélites vivaient entre les Cananéens, les Edomites, les Philistins, les Caldéens, etc., tous connus pour la cruauté de leurs moeurs, militaires et civiles, dont les exemples abondent dans l'A.T. ; ainsi s'expliquent, sans se justifier, certaines imprécations comme celles de Ps 137:7-9 et certaines traditions nationales comme celle des massacres commis par les Juifs à Suse (Est 9).

Les pires cruautés décrites dans la Bible sont sans doute les persécutions de l'époque des Macchabées ; elles remplissent les deux livres apocr. de ce nom, qui ont le droit de dénoncer « le tyran cruel Antiochus », et ses « actes de cruauté » (2Ma 7:27 12:5 13:9 etc.). Il faut citer aussi les sanguinaires Hérode le Grand (Mt 2:13-18). Hérode Antipas avec Hérodias (Mr 6:21,28), Ponce Pilate (Lu 13:1). « Sortant péniblement de la barbarie dans laquelle elle se trouvait plongée, la race des hommes a été appelée à parcourir un long chemin.

La loi, sous l'ancienne alliance, en a marqué les étapes successives. Passant par la règle du talion, l'humanité s'est graduellement élevée jusqu'à ce que, sous l'action du souffle prophétique, un nouveau degré fût franchi, et que retentît le commandement de l'amour. Jésus, couronnant l'oeuvre de la loi et des prophètes, a non seulement proclamé à nouveau ce principe divin, il l'a incarné en lui-même, en sa vie et en sa mort. » (L. Gautier.) Entre l'esprit du Christ et l'esprit même d'Élie, il y a tout l'abîme de la révélation de l'Évangile (cf. 1Ro 18:40,2Ro 1:10,12 et Lu 9:55).

La cruauté est incompatible avec l'amour chrétien, qui « ne fait rien de malhonnête, ne se réjouit pas de l'injustice, mais excuse tout, croit tout, espère tout, supporte tout » (1Co 13:5-7). Jn L.

Vous avez aimé ? Partagez autour de vous !


Ce texte est la propriété du TopChrétien. Autorisation de diffusion autorisée en précisant la source. © 2022 - www.topchretien.com
  • Contenus
  • Versions
  • Commentaires
  • Strong
  • Dictionnaire
  • Versets relatifs
  • Carte
  • Versets favoris

Pour ajouter un favori, merci de vous connecter : Se connecter

Vous avez aimé ? Partagez autour de vous !

Créer un verset illustré

Logo TopChrétien carré

Télécharger l'image

Choisissez une image

Personnalisez le verset

Alignement : | | | Haut | Milieu | Bas

Taille :

Couleur :

Police :

Personnalisez la référence

Couleur :

Police :

Taille :

De légères variations de mise en page peuvent apparaitre sur l'image téléchargée.

Versets relatifs

    • Ces vidéos ne sont pas disponibles en colonnes en dehors de la vue Bible.

      Genèse 4

      23 Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

      Josué 6

      21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

      2 Samuel 12

      31 He brought out the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

      Esther 9

      1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
      2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.
      3 All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king's business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
      4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
      5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
      6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
      7 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
      8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
      9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
      10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.
      11 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
      12 The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done."
      13 Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows."
      14 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
      15 The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
      16 The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.
      17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
      18 But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
      19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
      20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,
      21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
      22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
      23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
      24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
      25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
      26 Therefore they called these days "Purim, " from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
      27 the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;
      28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their seed.
      29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
      30 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
      31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.
      32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

      Job 30

      21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

      Job 39

      19 "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

      Psaumes 137

      7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"
      8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
      9 Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

      Proverbes 5

      9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

      Proverbes 11

      17 The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

      Proverbes 12

      10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

      Proverbes 17

      11 An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

      Proverbes 27

      4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

      Esaïe 13

      9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

      Esaïe 19

      4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

      Jérémie 6

      23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

      Jérémie 30

      14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

      Lamentations 4

      3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

      Matthieu 2

      13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."
      14 He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,
      15 and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son."
      16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
      17 Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
      18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are no more."

      Marc 6

      21 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
      28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

      Luc 9

      55 But he turned and rebuked them, "You don't know of what kind of spirit you are.

      Luc 13

      1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

      Actes 20

      29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

      1 Corinthiens 13

      5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
      6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
      7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

      2 Timothée 3

      3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
    • Ajouter une colonne
Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin pour Firefox & Safari - Flash plugin pour Opera & Chrome.