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Nehemiah Capitolo 4
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Ne 4:1-6.
日本語
Originale inglese
Ne 4:1-6.
WHILE THE ENEMIES SCOFF, NEHEMIAH PRAYS TO GOD, AND CONTINUES THE WORK.
1. when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth--The Samaritan faction showed their bitter animosity to the Jews on discovering the systematic design of refortifying Jerusalem. Their opposition was confined at first to scoffs and insults, in heaping which the governors made themselves conspicuous, and circulated all sorts of disparaging reflections that might increase the feelings of hatred and contempt for them in their own party. The weakness of the Jews in respect of wealth and numbers, the absurdity of their purpose apparently to reconstruct the walls and celebrate the feast of dedication in one day, the idea of raising the walls on their old foundations, as well as using the charred and mouldering debris of the ruins as the materials for the restored buildings, and the hope of such a parapet as they could raise being capable of serving as a fortress of defense--these all afforded fertile subjects of hostile ridicule.
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日本語
3. きつねが上っても--きつねが言及されたのは、シオンの山と都の破壊され荒廃した場所にきつねが大群で群がることが知られていたからである(哀歌 5:18)。
Originale inglese
3. if a fox go up--The foxes were mentioned because they were known to infest in great numbers the ruined and desolate places in the mount and city of Zion
(La 5:18).
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日本語
4, 5. 私たちの神よ、お聞きください。私たちは侮りを受けております--ここで呼び求められたのろいの祈りは、粗暴で残酷で復讐的に見えるかもしれない。しかし、ネヘミヤとその友人たちが、これらのサマリヤの指導者たちを神とその民の大義の敵、それゆえ重いさばきを受けるに値する者とみなしたことを思い起こさなければならない。それゆえこの祈りは、憎しみ、復讐、あるいは何らかの劣った情ではなく、神の栄光とその大義の成功に対する敬虔で愛国的な熱心が支配的な影響力を持つ心から出たものとみなされるべきである。
Originale inglese
4, 5. Hear, O our God; for we are despised--The imprecations invoked here may seem harsh, cruel, and vindictive; but it must be remembered that Nehemiah and his friends regarded those Samaritan leaders as enemies to the cause of God and His people, and therefore as deserving to be visited with heavy judgments. The prayer, therefore, is to be considered as emanating from hearts in which neither hatred, revenge, nor any inferior passion, but a pious and patriotic zeal for the glory of God and the success of His cause, held the ascendant sway.
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日本語
6. 城壁はすべて連結され、その高さは半ばに達した--城壁の全周は民の様々な組に区画ごとに割り当てられ、意図された高さの半ばまで完成した。
Originale inglese
6. all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof--The whole circuit of the wall had been distributed in sections to various companies of the people, and was completed to the half of the intended height.
7
Ne 4:7-23.
日本語
ネヘ 4:7-23.
彼が見張りを置く。
7-21. しかし……サンバラテが……城壁が……繕われ……破れ目が……塞がれたと聞いて--彼らのあらゆる予測に反して要塞化が急速に進んだことは、サマリヤ人を激怒させた。そこで彼らは、ユダヤ人の成長する偉大さから来る危険を恐れ、彼らを奇襲し、その工事を破壊し、建築者たちを散らすか脅すための陰謀を形成した。その陰謀が発見されると、ネヘミヤは共同の安全と、城壁の中断なき建築を保障するために最も精力的な措置をとった。それまで総督は迅速を期すため、すべての従者と衛兵を工事に配置していたが--今やその半数を引き抜いて常に武装させることにした。労働者たちは片手に鏝を、もう片方の手に剣を持って働いた。そして、これほど大きな周囲では互いに遠く離れていたので、ネヘミヤ（彼は夜も昼も現場にあり、その敬虔な勧めと模範によって民の心を奮い立たせた）は自分のそばにラッパ手を置き、奇襲の知らせがもたらされたなら直ちに警報が鳴らされ、最も遠く離れた兄弟の分遣隊にも援助が届くようにした。これらの目覚めた予防策により、敵の計略は打ち破られ、工事は急速に進んだ。神は、重要な公のわざを行うとき、それを成し遂げる器を必ず起こされる。偉大な生来の鋭さと精力に熱烈な敬虔と英雄的献身を加えたネヘミヤという人物において、神は指導者を備え、その高い資質はその危機の要求にふさわしかった。ネヘミヤの警戒はすべての困難をあらかじめ見越し、その賢明な措置はすべての障害を打ち破り、驚くべき速さでこのエルサレムは再び「堅固な町」とされた。
Originale inglese
Ne 4:7-23.
HE SETS A WATCH.
7-21. But . . . when Sanballat . . . heard that the walls . . . were made up, and . . . the breaches . . . stopped--The rapid progress of the fortifications, despite all their predictions to the contrary, goaded the Samaritans to frenzy. So they, dreading danger from the growing greatness of the Jews, formed a conspiracy to surprise them, demolish their works, and disperse or intimidate the builders. The plot being discovered, Nehemiah adopted the most energetic measures for ensuring the common safety, as well as the uninterrupted building of the walls. Hitherto the governor, for the sake of despatch, had set all his attendants and guards on the work--now half of them were withdrawn to be constantly in arms. The workmen labored with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other; and as, in so large a circuit, they were far removed from each other, Nehemiah (who was night and day on the spot, and, by his pious exhortations and example, animated the minds of his people) kept a trumpeter by his side, so that, on any intelligence of a surprise being brought to him, an alarm might be immediately sounded, and assistance rendered to the most distant detachment of their brethren. By these vigilant precautions, the counsels of the enemy were defeated, and the work was carried on apace. God, when He has important public work to do, never fails to raise up instruments for accomplishing it, and in the person of Nehemiah, who, to great natural acuteness and energy added fervent piety and heroic devotion, He provided a leader, whose high qualities fitted him for the demands of the crisis. Nehemiah's vigilance anticipated every difficulty, his prudent measures defeated every obstruction, and with astonishing rapidity this Jerusalem was made again "a city fortified."
ネヘ 4:1-6.
敵たちがあざける間、ネヘミヤは神に祈り、工事を続ける。
1. サンバラテが私たちが城壁を建てていると聞いて激しく怒った--サマリヤの党派は、エルサレムを組織的に再要塞化する計画を発見するや否や、ユダヤ人に対する激しい敵意を示した。彼らの反対は最初はあざけりと侮辱に限られた。それを浴びせる中で総督たちが目立ち、自派の中でユダヤ人に対する憎しみと軽蔑の感情を高めるようなあらゆる貶める反省を言い広めた。富と数においてユダヤ人が弱いこと、一日のうちに城壁を再建し献堂の祭を行おうとするかのように見える彼らの目的の不合理さ、古い基礎の上に城壁を築き起こす考え、焼けて腐りゆく廃墟の残骸を回復された建物の材料として使おうとすること、そして彼らが築き得る程度の胸壁が防御の要塞として役立つであろうという期待、これらはすべて敵対的なあざけりの豊かな題材を提供した。