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Ezekiel 28:1
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英語原文
The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but "the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places." Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a "prince of Tyrus," against whom God utters His voice. The "mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.
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Ezekiel 28:2
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「你心裏曾說:我是神」——比較 Ezekiel 29:3;Daniel 4:30;Acts 12:22;2 Thessalonians 2:4。
「我坐在神的座位上」——這些話表明說話者的驕傲;但這座滿有美色的海島之城,坐落於地中海的碧波之中,其位置使這話更見力量。比較描寫推羅曾處身伊甸的經文(Ezekiel 28:13)。
「你卻是人」——更宜譯作「你不過是人」。
Ezekiel 28:2「你心裏曾說:我是神」——比較 Ezekiel 29:3;Daniel 4:30;Acts 12:22;2 Thessalonians 2:4。
「我坐在神的座位上」——這些話表明說話者的驕傲;但這座滿有美色的海島之城,坐落於地中海的碧波之中,其位置使這話更見力量。比較描寫推羅曾處身伊甸的經文(Ezekiel 28:13)。
「你卻是人」——更宜譯作「你不過是人」。
英語原文
Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.
I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker's pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.
Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.
Ezekiel 28:2Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.
I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker's pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.
Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.
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Ezekiel 28:3
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你比但以理更有智慧——這話含有強烈的諷刺。比較 Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3。
英語原文
Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.
Ezekiel 28:3Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.
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Ezekiel 28:9
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然而你必成為人——更確切的譯法是「然而你是人」。
Ezekiel 28:9 然而你必成為人——更確切的譯法是「然而你是人」。
英語原文
But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.
Ezekiel 28:9But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.
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Ezekiel 28:10
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未受割禮的人——指與立約之民相對的異教拜偶像者。
這是針對推羅君王的預言。在整個東方,一個民族的威嚴與榮耀都集中於他們君王身上;在有些國家,君王更被當作神來敬拜。這裏的君王是全體人民的化身:他們的榮耀就是他的榮耀,他們的驕傲就是他的驕傲。若不宣告對推羅君王的審判,推羅的厄運便不算完全。在先知眼中,拜偶像的列國與拜偶像的君王,都是與真神為敵的。在他們身上,體現著與神對世界的治理相對抗的罪惡原則。因此,一些教父在寶座上看見的不僅是敵對的君王,更是「這世界的王、在高位上屬靈的邪惡(或作邪惡的靈)」。無論何時,罪惡以任何方式轄制良善,那裏就有一位「推羅君王」,神要向他發聲。「不法的隱意」總在運行;在這運行中,我們認出神所定罪並將毀滅的撒但權勢。
Ezekiel 28:10 未受割禮的人——指與立約之民相對的異教拜偶像者。
英語原文
The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.
The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but "the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places." Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a "prince of Tyrus," against whom God utters His voice. The "mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.
Ezekiel 28:10The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.
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Ezekiel 28:11
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這是推羅君王的哀歌,與為國度所作的哀歌相應。這段話帶有反諷意味;其主要目的,是描繪「推羅君王」一切真實或自居的榮耀,以顯明他的傾覆將何等可悲。
英語原文
The dirge of the prince of Tyre, answering to the dirge of the state. The passage is ironical; its main purpose is to depict all the glory, real or assumed, of "the prince of Tyrus," in order to show how deplorable should be his ruin.
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Ezekiel 28:12
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「無所不備」(直譯「印上總量」)——意即完滿了完全的整體度量。比較七十士譯本。
英語原文
To "seal the sum" is to make up the whole measure of perfection. Compare the Septuagint
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Ezekiel 28:13
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你曾在伊甸——意即「你」曾在……推羅君王被反諷地描述為最先的受造物;但同時也要保持平行:他從榮耀中墜落。他怎樣像亞當享樂園之樂,也必照樣像亞當一樣墜落。
各樣寶石——這裏所列的寶石都見於大祭司的胸牌(Exodus 28:17-20),但次序不同,且出埃及記第三行的三樣寶石在此缺如。先知故意改動描述,或許因為十二這數目(以色列支派之數)與推羅君王無關;他要描繪的不是大祭司,而是君王——在他心目中的形像,對猶太人尤其對祭司而言,正是富麗堂皇的典型。
鼓——(或作桶鼓)與「笛」是喜慶與誇勝的常用表達。
英語原文
Thou hast been in Eden - "Thou" wast etc. The prince of Tyrus is ironically described as the first of creation; but at the same time the parallel is to be maintained in his fall from glory. Like Adam in the enjoyment of paradise, he shall be like Adam in his fall.
Every precious stone - All the stones here named are found in the High priest's breastplate Exodus 28:17-20, but their order is different, and three stones named in Exodus (the third row) are wanting. The prophet may purposely have varied the description because the number twelve (that of the tribes of Israel) had nothing to do with the prince of Tyrus, and he wished to portray, not a high priest, but a king, having in view a figure which was to a Jew, especially to a priest, the very type of magnificence.
Tabrets - (or, drums) and "pipes" were a common expression for festivity and triumph.
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Ezekiel 28:14
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你是……——更宜譯作「你曾」是……「受膏遮掩的基路伯」:在聖殿裏,基路伯和一切聖物都被分別出來,用膏油膏抹(Exodus 30:26 以下)。推羅君王也如君尊的祭司般受膏——遮蓋保護周圍的小邦,正如基路伯展開翅膀遮掩施恩座一樣。
你在聖山上——正如基路伯在聖山上的殿中,推羅君王也統管那從深海中如山聳立的島城。
火石——即明亮閃爍的石頭。君王佩帶明亮的寶石,在華彩之中行於寶石之間。
英語原文
Thou art - Better," Thou" wert. "the anointed cherub that covereth" In the temple the cherubim and all holy things were consecrated and anointed with oil (Exodus 30:26 ff). The prince of Tyre was also anointed as a sovereign priest - covering or protecting the minor states, like the cherubim with outstretched wings covering the mercy-Seat.
Thou wast upon the holy mountain - As the cherub was in the temple on the holy mountain, so the prince of Tyre was presiding over the island-city, rising like a mountain from the deep.
Stones of fire - i. e., bright and shining. Decked with bright jewels, the prince walked among jewels in gorgeous splendor.
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Ezekiel 28:15
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那「完全」是虛假的,直到其下隱藏的「不義」被發現為止,一直未受懷疑。
英語原文
The "perfection" was false, unsuspected until the "iniquity" which lay beneath was found out.
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Ezekiel 28:21
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這是論西頓的預言。西頓(今賽達)比推羅更古老,原是腓尼基的母城(Genesis 10:19),但在腓尼基全盛時期始終居於次要地位。「西頓人」與以色列衝突的記載,只在 Judges 10:12 出現一次。他們所行的惡,是引誘以色列人拜偶像(比較 Ezekiel 28:24),如西頓王謁巴力之女耶洗別的事(1 Kings 16:31)。尼布甲尼撒攻陷推羅後,西頓地位日重;亞達薛西烏斯毀城之時,它正是一富庶繁榮之邑。此後屢有復甦,卻再未成大器——雖不似推羅那樣徹底傾覆。
英語原文
Prophecy against Zidon. Zidon (mod. Saida) was more ancient than Tyre and was the original metropolis of Phoenicia Genesis 10:19, but in the times of Phoenician greatness it ever played a subordinate part. Only once Judges 10:12 do we find the "Zidonians" in conflict with Israel. The evil which they did was the seducing them to idolatry (compare Ezekiel 28:24), as in the case of Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians 1 Kings 16:31. The capture of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar increased the importance of Zidon, which was a wealthy and flourishing town when Artaxerxes Ochus destroyed it. It has rallied from time to time, but has never attained to any great consequence, though not in such complete ruin as Tyre.
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Ezekiel 28:22
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得榮耀……顯為聖——或作「為我得榮耀……顯明我的聖潔」(Ezekiel 28:25 亦同)。
英語原文
Be glorified ... be sanctified - Or, "get Me glory ... have shown Myself holy" (and in Ezekiel 28:25).
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Ezekiel 28:25
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這裏將以色列的前途與周圍列國的前途相對照。這預言遠遠超越僅屬今世的復興,它指向更恆久穩妥的時代:那時基督的教會——神的以色列——將從萬國萬邦被招聚,世界的權勢將被永遠摧毀,基督的國度將永遠堅立。
這個從仇敵轉到神子民的過渡,結束了針對以色列人近鄰各民族的預言部分,隨後便轉向較遠的埃及。
英語原文
The contrast of the future of Israel with that of the surrounding nations. This prophecy reaches far beyond a mere temporal restoration. It points to times of more permanent security, when from all nations and kingdoms the Church of Christ, the Israel of God, shall be gathered in, when the power of the world shall be forever broken, and the kingdom of Christ shall be established forever.
This transition from the enemies to the people of God closes the portion of the prophecies against the nations in the immediate vicinity of the Israelites, before passing to the more distant Egypt.
針對推羅君王的預言。在整個東方,一個民族的威嚴與榮耀都集中於其君王身上;在一些國家,君王甚至被當作神明敬拜。這裏的君王是整個社群的化身:他們的榮耀就是他的榮耀,他們的驕傲就是他的驕傲。若不宣告對推羅君王的審判,推羅的厄運便不完全。在先知眼中,拜偶像的列國和拜偶像的君王,乃是真神的仇敵;敵擋神統管世界之原則的罪惡原則,正具體呈現在他們身上。因此,一些教父在這寶座上看見的,不單是一位敵對的君王,而是「這世界的王、在高位上屬靈的罪惡(即罪惡之靈)」。每當罪惡以任何方式轄制良善,就有一位「推羅的君王」,神要向他發聲。「不法的奧祕」總在運行;在這運行中,我們認出撒但的權勢——神已定它的罪,並必將它毀滅。