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1Sa 12:1-5.
简体中文
英語原文
1Sa 12:1-5.
SAMUEL TESTIFIES HIS INTEGRITY.
1-4. Samuel said unto all Israel--This public address was made after the solemn re-instalment of Saul, and before the convention at Gilgal separated. Samuel, having challenged a review of his public life, received a unanimous testimony to the unsullied honor of his personal character, as well as the justice and integrity of his public administration.
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简体中文
5. 耶和华向你们作见证,祂的受膏者也向你们作见证——即借他们自己的承认,他并未给他们任何理由对士师所代表的神之治理感到厌倦;因此,想要更换政体的责任全在他们自己。这只是含蓄的说法,他们并未完全领会他的用意。
英語原文
5. the Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness--that, by their own acknowledgment, he had given them no cause to weary of the divine government by judges, and that, therefore, the blame of desiring a change of government rested with themselves. This was only insinuated, and they did not fully perceive his drift.
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1Sa 12:6-16.
简体中文
1Sa 12:6-16.
他责备百姓 忘恩。
英語原文
1Sa 12:6-16.
HE REPROVES THE PEOPLE FOR INGRATITUDE.
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7-16节. 现在你们要站住，等我与你们理论. 这番忠实而不妥协之讲话的要旨，是要向他们表明：他们虽得到了那样纠缠不休所渴望的政府更迭，但他们的行为却大大得罪了他们的天上的王；然而，他们若仍忠于他和神政的原则，便可脱离新事态使他们暴露其中的许多祸患。为证实这些话，并为神不悦之证据，先知一呼求便发生了一个非凡的现象，而他事先已发出充分预告。
英語原文
7-16. Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you--The burden of this faithful and uncompromising address was to show them, that though they had obtained the change of government they had so importunely desired, their conduct was highly displeasing to their heavenly King; nevertheless, if they remained faithful to Him and to the principles of the theocracy, they might be delivered from many of the evils to which the new state of things would expose them. And in confirmation of those statements, no less than in evidence of the divine displeasure, a remarkable phenomenon, on the invocation of the prophet, and of which he gave due premonition, took place.
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11. 比但——《七十士译本》作「巴拉」;又有几个译本在「撒母耳」处作「参孙」,似乎比先知略去那位最伟大的士师不提、只提自己要自然得多(比较Heb 11:32)。
英語原文
11. Bedan--The Septuagint reads "Barak"; and for "Samuel" some versions read "Samson," which seems more natural than that the prophet should mention himself to the total omission of the greatest of the judges. (Compare
Heb 11:32).
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1Sa 12:17-25.
简体中文
1Sa 12:17-25.
他以 收割时的 雷声 威慑他们。
17-25. 今日不是割麦子的时候吗?——在巴勒斯坦,那季节在六月底或七月初,几乎从不下雨,天空晴朗无云。因此,若一位自称是耶和华先知的人,事先预告以此作为自己话语属实的印证,而毫无任何征兆就在当天下起雨、响起雷来,没有比这更强有力、更恰当的证据,可以证明这是出于神的差遣了。百姓看这是神能力的奇事彰显,惊恐之下恳求先知为他们祷告。他答应要如此行,便消除了他们的惧怕。在这整个立王的事上,撒母耳的举止表明他是一位伟大而良善的人:他为国家的益处怀着无私的热忱,放下了一切私人的和个人的考量;而他最后一次公开的发言,正是要警告百姓和他们的王,警惕背道与悖逆神的危险。
英語原文
1Sa 12:17-25.
HE TERRIFIES THEM WITH THUNDER IN HARVEST-TIME.
17-25. Is it not wheat harvest to-day?--That season in Palestine occurs at the end of June or beginning of July, when it seldom or never rains, and the sky is serene and cloudless. There could not, therefore, have been a stronger or more appropriate proof of a divine mission than the phenomenon of rain and thunder happening, without any prognostics of its approach, upon the prediction of a person professing himself to be a prophet of the Lord, and giving it as an attestation of his words being true. The people regarded it as a miraculous display of divine power, and, panic-struck, implored the prophet to pray for them. Promising to do so, he dispelled their fears. The conduct of Samuel, in this whole affair of the king's appointment, shows him to have been a great and good man who sank all private and personal considerations in disinterested zeal for his country's good and whose last words in public were to warn the people, and their king, of the danger of apostasy and disobedience to God.
撒上 12:1-5.
撒母耳自证清廉。
1-4节. 撒母耳对以色列众人说. 这番公开的讲话是在扫罗庄严复位之后、吉甲集会散去之前发表的。撒母耳要求众人回顾他的公众生涯，获得了对他人格声誉毫无瑕疵、对其施政公义与清廉的一致见证。