Chapter commentary
Genesis Chapter 9
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Ge 9:1-7.
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Ge 9:1-7.
COVENANT.
1. And God blessed Noah--Here is republished the law of nature that was announced to Adam, consisting as it originally did of several parts.
Be fruitful, &c.--The first part relates to the transmission of life, the original blessing being reannounced in the very same words in which it had been promised at first
[Ge 1:28].
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2. 凡地上的走兽……都必惊恐你们——第二部分重新确立了人对低等动物的管辖；这管辖现在不像起初建立在爱与恩慈之上，而是建立在惧怕之上；这种对人的恐惧，在动物族类中无论强者弱者都普遍存在，使除了为人服役者外，其他都远离他的居所。
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2. And the fear of you and the dread of you--The second part re-establishes man's dominion over the inferior animals; it was now founded not as at first in love and kindness, but in terror; this dread of man prevails among all the stronger as well as the weaker members of the animal tribes and keeps away from his haunts all but those employed in his service.
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3. 凡活着的动物都可以作你们的食物——第三部分关于维持生命的方法；人似乎第一次获准使用动物作食物，但这特许附带着一项限制。
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3. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you--The third part concerns the means of sustaining life; man was for the first time, it would seem, allowed the use of animal food, but the grant was accompanied with one restriction.
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4. 惟独肉……血……你们不可吃——这禁令的唯一目的，是为防止食活物之肉那种食人般的残暴放纵，这是人类早期所易犯的。
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4. But flesh . . . the blood . . . shall ye not eat--The sole intention of this prohibition was to prevent these excesses of cannibal ferocity in eating flesh of living animals, to which men in the earlier ages of the world were liable.
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5. 我必讨你们的罪——第四部分设立了一种保护生命的新权柄——民事官长的设立
(Ro 13:4)，
赋予公开而正式的权柄，以压制暴行与犯罪的实施。这样的一种权柄在列祖社会中从前并不存在。
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5. surely your blood of your lives will I require--The fourth part establishes a new power for protecting life--the institution of the civil magistrate
(Ro 13:4),
armed with public and official authority to repress the commission of violence and crime. Such a power had not previously existed in patriarchal society.
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6. 凡流人血的……因为神造人是照自己的形像造的——这形像虽因堕落受损，却未失去。由此可见，每一个人的生命，连最贫穷最卑微者的生命，都被看重；毁灭人命包含着可怕的罪责。
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6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood . . . for in the image of God made he man--It is true that image has been injured by the fall, but it is not lost. In this view, a high value is attached to the life of every man, even the poorest and humblest, and an awful criminality is involved in the destruction of it.
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Ge 9:8-29.
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Ge 9:8-29.
彩虹。
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Ge 9:8-29.
RAINBOW.
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13. 我把虹放在云彩中——放，即设立或指定。这寻常而熟悉的现象既作为和平的保证，其在下雨开始时的出现便会以最活泼的喜乐之情被欢迎。
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13. I do set my bow in the cloud--set, that is, constitute or appoint. This common and familiar phenomenon being made the pledge of peace, its appearance when showers began to fall would be welcomed with the liveliest feelings of joy.
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20. 挪亚……栽了一个葡萄园——挪亚大概自小受的是耕种之业的训练，出了方舟之后便恢复了这工作。
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20. And Noah . . . planted a vineyard--Noah had been probably bred to the culture of the soil, and resumed that employment on leaving the ark.
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21. 他喝了酒就醉了——也许是在葡萄收成季节的喜庆之时。这样一位极其敬虔的人身上这一孤立的污点，据信必定是因年迈或疏忽所致。
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21. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken--perhaps at the festivities of the vintage season. This solitary stain on the character of so eminently pious a man must, it is believed, have been the result of age or inadvertency.
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24. 这事大概不会发生在洪水之后二十年以内；因为迦南——他的行为比他父亲更为可恶——是在洪水之后才出生的。这些经文之间大概包含一段漫长的间隔，而这预言正如雅各论众子之预言一样，大概直到挪亚临终时预言的灵临到他，才说出来；这一点因紧接着提到他的死而更加有力。
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24. This incident could scarcely have happened till twenty years after the flood; for Canaan, whose conduct was more offensive than that even of his father, was not born till after that event. It is probable that there is a long interval included between these verses and that this prophecy, like that of Jacob on his sons, was not uttered till near the close of Noah's life when the prophetic spirit came upon him; this presumption is strengthened by the mention of his death immediately after.
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25. 迦南当受咒诅——这厄运已应验于迦南人的毁灭、埃及的衰败，以及含的后裔非洲人的奴役中。
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25. Cursed be Canaan--This doom has been fulfilled in the destruction of the Canaanites--in the degradation of Egypt and the slavery of the Africans, the descendants of Ham.
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26. 耶和华闪的神是应当称颂的——更当译作："闪是耶和华我神所赐福的"——暗示闪的后裔必在事奉真神的事上特别蒙恩，祂的教会多年在他们中间（犹太人）建立，按肉体说，基督也是从他们出来的。他们取得了迦南，那地的民或因被征服，或如基遍人那样因归降而作了他们的"仆人"
[书 9:25]。
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26. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem--rather, "Blessed of Jehovah, my God, be Shem,"--an intimation that the descendants of Shem should be peculiarly honored in the service of the true God, His Church being for ages established among them (the Jews), and of them, concerning the flesh, Christ came. They got possession of Canaan, the people of that land being made their "servants" either by conquest, or, like the Gibeonites, by submission
[Jos 9:25].
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27. 神愿雅弗扩张——指向后裔和产业的极大扩展。果然他的后裔最为活跃进取，散布在世界最好最大的部分，即全欧洲和亚洲相当大的一部分。
他要住在闪的帐棚里——这是如今正在应验的预言，正如在印度英政府建立，而盎格鲁撒克逊人从欧洲到印度、从印度到美洲大陆都居于优势。短短几节经文里包含着何等奇妙的预言
(赛 46:10； 彼前 1:25)！
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27. God shall enlarge Japheth--pointing to a vast increase in posterity and possessions. Accordingly his descendants have been the most active and enterprising, spread over the best and largest portion of the world, all Europe and a considerable part of Asia.
he shall dwell in the tents of Shem--a prophecy being fulfilled at the present day, as in India British Government is established and the Anglo-Saxons being in the ascendancy from Europe to India, from India over the American continent. What a wonderful prophecy in a few verses
(Isa 46:10; 1Pe 1:25)!
Ge 9:1-7.
立约。
1. 神赐福给挪亚——这里重新颁布了那向亚当宣告的自然之律，这律原初由几部分组成。
要生养众多，等——第一部分关于生命的传递，最初的祝福以最初应许时所用的同一话语重新宣告
[Ge 1:28]。