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1Sa 12:1-5.
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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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5節. 耶和華向你們作見證，他的受膏者向你們作見證. 即按他們自己的承認，撒母耳沒有給他們任何厭倦士師之神治的理由，因此想改變政府的責任在他們自己。這不過是暗指，他們沒有完全領會他的用意。
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.
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1Sa 12:6-16.
他責備百姓忘恩。
英語原文
1Sa 12:6-16.
HE REPROVES THE PEOPLE FOR INGRATITUDE.
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7-16. 現在你們要站住，等我和你們理論——這篇忠信而不妥協之講論的主旨，是要向他們表明：雖然他們已得到了他們如此執拗所求的政體改變，他們的行為卻極不討他們天上君王的喜悅；然而，他們若對祂和神權政體的原則保持忠信，就可以脫離新局面將使他們面臨的許多惡事。為了證實這些話，也作為神不悅的證據，在先知的求告下——他事先給予了充分的預告——發生了一個不尋常的現象。
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——七十士譯本讀作「巴拉」；有些譯本以「參孫」代替「撒母耳」，這似乎比先知完全不提最偉大的士師、反而提到自己更為自然。（參
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.
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1Sa 12:17-25.
他以收割時節的雷聲震懾他們。
17-25. 今日不是割麥子的時候嗎？——巴勒斯坦的這個季節在六月底或七月初，那時很少或從不下雨，天空晴朗無雲。因此，一個自稱是耶和華先知的人，以之為自己話語真實的證明而預言之後，在毫無任何預兆的情況下出現雨和雷——沒有比這更強有力或更適當的證據來證明一個人是受了神的使命了。百姓視之為神能力的奇妙彰顯，驚恐萬分地懇求先知為他們禱告。他答應如此行，驅散了他們的恐懼。撒母耳在這立王的整件事上的行為，表明他是一位偉大而善良的人，他將一切私人和個人的考量都淹沒在為國家利益的無私熱忱中，而他在公開場合最後的話是警告百姓和他們的王，背道和不順從神的危險。
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。
撒母耳申明自己的正直。
1-4. 撒母耳對以色列眾人說——這番公開的講話，是在掃羅莊嚴地重新登基之後、吉甲大會散去之前作的。撒母耳既要求百姓回顧他一生的公眾生涯，便得到一致的見證，證明他個人的品格清白無瑕，公眾施政公正廉明。