1
Ac 4:1-13.
英語原文
Ac 4:1-13.
PETER AND JOHN BEFORE THE SAMHEDRIM.
1-12. the captain--of the Levitical guard.
of the temple--annoyed at the disturbance created around it.
and the Sadducees--who "say that there is no resurrection"
(Ac 23:8),
irritated at the apostles "preaching through (rather, 'in') Jesus the resurrection from the dead"; for the resurrection of Christ, if a fact, effectually overthrew the Sadducean doctrine.
4
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Ac 4:4.
4. 男丁——即不包括婦女在內的男性；雖然這詞有時兼指兩者。
數目約到五千——而且這是在耶路撒冷，在那裡，任何人都可輕易揭穿騙局或撲滅狂熱（若果真如此），且有各種誘因促使人追查到底。
英語原文
4. the number of the men--or males, exclusive of women; though the word sometimes includes both.
about five thousand--and this in Jerusalem, where the means of detecting the imposture or crushing the fanaticism, if such it had been, were within everyone's reach, and where there was every inducement to sift it to the bottom.
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Ac 4:5.
5. 他們的官府等——這是一次公會的正式集會（參見
Mt 2:4的註釋）。
英語原文
5. their rulers, &c.--This was a regular meeting of the Sanhedrim (see on
Mt 2:4).
6
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Ac 4:6.
6. 亞那……和該亞法——（參見
Lu 3:2的註釋）。
約翰和亞歷山大——生平不詳。
英語原文
6. Annas . . . and Caiaphas--(See on
Lu 3:2).
John and Alexander--of whom nothing is known.
7
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Ac 4:7.
7. 你們用甚麼能力，奉誰的名，作這事呢——這就等於承認了神蹟的真實性，他們後來也自認無法否認
(Ac 4:16)。
英語原文
7. By what power or . . . name have ye done this--thus admitting the reality of the miracle, which afterwards they confess themselves unable to deny
(Ac 4:16).
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Ac 4:8.
8. 那時，彼得被聖靈充滿，對他們說——（見
Mr 13:11； Lu 21:15）。
英語原文
8. Then, filled with the Holy Ghost, said--(See
Mr 13:11; Lu 21:15).
10
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10節。你們……和以色列眾人當知道——彷彿藉著如今聚集的執政掌權者，向全國發出正式的司法見證。
因耶穌的名等——（參
Ac 3:13
等）。
他是因他站在你們面前好了——因為從
Ac 4:14
看來，那得醫治的人此時正在他們眼前。
英語原文
10. Be it known unto you . . . and to all the people of Israel--as if emitting a formal judicial testimony to the entire nation through its rulers now convened.
by the name of Jesus, &c.--(See on
Ac 3:13,
&c.).
even by him doth this man stand before you whole--for from
Ac 4:14
it appears that the healed man was at that moment before their eyes.
11
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11. 這石頭就是你們匠人所棄的石頭等等——這對
Ps 118:22
的應用，我們的主早已在同一班「匠人」中的一些人面前親自作過
(Mt 21:42)，
如今在拒絕之舉已成定局，且被棄的那位已因升上高天至大者的右邊而成為「房角的頭塊石頭」之後，此處以格外恰當的方式重複了一遍。
英語原文
11. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, &c.--This application of
Ps 118:22,
already made by our Lord Himself before some of the same "builders"
(Mt 21:42),
is here repeated with peculiar propriety after the deed of rejection had been consummated, and the rejected One had, by His exaltation to the right hand of the Majesty on high, become "the head of the corner."
12
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12. 除他以外，別無拯救；因為在天下人間，沒有賜下別的名，我們可以靠著得救——使徒在這些結語中，何等崇高地將以色列的這些統治者關乎拯救的盼望，封閉於耶穌身上；他又以何等普世而鄭重的措辭，高舉他的主為人類唯一的盼望！
英語原文
12. Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved--How sublimely does the apostle, in these closing words, shut up these rulers of Israel to Jesus for salvation, and in what universal and emphatic terms does he hold up his Lord as the one Hope of men!
13
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13-17節。看出他們原是沒有學問的小民——即未受猶太學堂教育、屬於平民百姓的人；是過著平民生活、未受教導訓練的人。
認明他們是跟過耶穌的——認出他們曾與耶穌同在一起；可能是記得曾見過他們與祂同行 [MEYER, BLOOMFIELD, ALFORD]；但更可能是在他們整個舉止中察覺出與耶穌同屬一脈的特質：即「我們以為已經除掉了祂；豈知祂又出現在這些人身上，那位拿撒勒人本身曾帶給我們的一切煩擾，如今還要在這些門徒身上去壓制。」這些原始見證人所得的見證何等偉大！但願他們的繼承者也能得著同樣的見證！
英語原文
13-17. perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men--that is, uninstructed in the learning of the Jewish schools, and of the common sort; men in private life, untrained to teaching.
took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus--recognized them as having been in His company; remembering possibly, that they had seen them with Him [MEYER, BLOOMFIELD, ALFORD]; but, more probably, perceiving in their whole bearing what identified them with Jesus: that is, "We thought we had got rid of Him; but lo! He reappears in these men, and all that troubled us in the Nazarene Himself has yet to be put down in these His disciples." What a testimony to these primitive witnesses! Would that the same could be said of their successors!
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16節. 一件明顯的神蹟……藉著他們行了，顯明在耶路撒冷的人……我們也不能說沒有——官長們啊，你們為什麼想要否認它，豈不是因為你們恨惡光，不願就光，恐怕你們的行為受責備嗎？
英語原文
16. a notable miracle . . . done by them is manifest to all . . . in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it--And why should ye wish to deny it, O ye rulers, but that ye hate the light, and will not come to the light lest your deeds should be reproved?
17
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17節. 惟恐這事越傳越廣……我們當嚴嚴地——嚴厲地。
恐嚇他們……叫他們總不可奉這名對人講論——無力的計謀！他們哪裡曉得那些英勇門徒骨中所燃燒的火。
英語原文
17. But that it spread no further . . . let us straitly--strictly.
threaten . . . that they speak henceforth to no man in this name--Impotent device! Little knew they the fire that was burning in the bones of those heroic disciples.
18
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18-22. 聽從你們……或是聽從神，……你們自己酌量吧。
英語原文
18-22. Whether it be right . . . to hearken to you more than . . . God, judge ye.
20
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20. 我們所看見所聽見的，不能不說——此處既有對審判官們較佳理性的清醒、尊重的訴求，也有平靜而深沉的決心，要承受被迫作見證的後果，這表明一種超越他們自己的能力正臨到他們身上，正如所應許的。
英語原文
20. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard--There is here a wonderful union of sober, respectful appeal to the better reason of their judges, and calm, deep determination to abide the consequences of a constrained testimony, which betokens a power above their own resting upon them, according to promise.
21
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21節. 想不出法子怎樣刑罰他們，又因百姓——不是找不到藉口，而是想不出如何才能不激起百姓的反對。
英語原文
21. finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people--not at a loss for a pretext, but at a loss how to do it so as not to rouse the opposition of the people.
23
Ac 4:23-37.
Ac 4:23-37。
彼得和約翰被公會釋放後，將經過報告給聚集的門徒——他們同心禱告——驚人的回應與結果。
23-30節. 既被釋放，就到自己的人那裡去——請留意兩個對立的階層，代表著即將陷入殊死衝突的兩種利益。
英語原文
Ac 4:23-37.
PETER AND JOHN DISMISSED FROM THE SAMHEDRIM, REPORT THE PROCEEDINGS TO THE ASSEMBLED DISCIPLES--THEY ENGAGE IN PRAYER--THE ASTONISHING ANSWER AND RESULTS.
23-30. being let go, they went to their own company--Observe the two opposite classes, representing the two interests which were about to come into deadly conflict.
24
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24. 他們……高聲——聚集的門徒聽了彼得的報告之後。
同心合意——所有在場之人的胸懷回應著這篇崇高禱告的每一句話。
主啊——（參見
Lu 2:29。）
用於神時，這稱呼表達絕對的權柄。
造天、地、海，和其中萬物的神——因此一切受造之物在祂面前都無能為力。
英語原文
24. they lifted up their voice--the assembled disciples, on hearing Peter's report.
with one accord--the breasts of all present echoing every word of this sublime prayer.
Lord--(See on
Lu 2:29).
Applied to God, the term expresses absolute authority.
God which hast made heaven and earth--against whom, therefore, all creatures are powerless.
25
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25. 你曾藉著……大衛的口說——猶太人雖然將第二篇詩篇歸於無名氏，卻認定它是出自大衛之手；而內證亦印證了這一點。大衛的靈驚訝地看見「外邦、萬民、地上的君王和臣宰」結成致命的聯盟，要抵擋耶和華與祂的受膏者（即祂的彌賽亞、基督）的治理，便追問「為甚麼」會如此。我們這些正在禱告的門徒，看見這凶猛的聯盟正在全面運作，就是「希律和本丟彼拉多，外邦人（羅馬的權柄）和以色列民，都聚集在你聖僕耶穌的事上」。（參
Ac 3:13
的註解）。
最可靠的古卷在「都聚集」之後加上「在這城裏」，這大概與詩篇第二篇第六節中「我的聖山錫安」相對應
(Ps 2:6)。
英語原文
25. by the mouth of . . . David--to whom the Jews ascribed the second Psalm, though anonymous; and internal evidence confirms it. David's spirit sees with astonishment "the heathen, the people, the kings and princes of the earth," in deadly combination against the sway of Jehovah and His Anointed (his Messiah, or Christ), and asks "why" it is. This fierce confederacy our praying disciples see in full operation, in the "gathering together of Herod and Pilate, the Gentiles (the Roman authority), and the people of Israel, against God's holy Child ('Servant') Jesus." (See on
Ac 3:13).
The best ancient copies read, after "were gathered together," "in this city," which probably answers to "upon my holy hill of Zion," in the
Ps 2:6.
28
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28. 成就你手和你意旨所預定必有的事——即「你的意旨」定意要由「你的手」來成就的事。
英語原文
28. thy hand and thy counsel determined . . . to be done--that is, "Thy counsel" determined to be done by "Thy hand."
29
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29. 主啊，求你鑒察他們的威嚇——他們視公會的威嚇為世上各樣勢力聯合向他們這幼嫩事業宣戰，並不狂熱地自欺、掩飾其危殆處境，而是平靜地求天地之主「鑒察他們的威嚇」。
使僕人能放膽講你的道——他們超越了自我，所求的只是無所畏懼的勇氣，為他們的主作見證，並求神以醫治等神蹟為他們的見證作屬天的印證。
英語原文
29. now, Lord, behold their threatenings--Recognizing in the threatenings of the Sanhedrim a declaration of war by the combined powers of the world against their infant cause, they seek not enthusiastically to hide from themselves its critical position, but calmly ask the Lord of heaven and earth to "look upon their threatenings."
that with all boldness they may speak thy word--Rising above self, they ask only fearless courage to testify for their Master, and divine attestation to their testimony by miracles of healing, &c., in His name.
31
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31-37. 聚會的地方震動——這是福音所要造成的震動的榮耀記號
(Ac 17:6；
比較
Ac 16:26)，
以及隨之而來一切敵對勢力傾覆的記號。
他們就都被聖靈充滿，放膽講論，等等——聖靈降在整個群體之上，首先正如他們所求的，使他們「放膽講論神的道」
(Ac 4:29, 31)；
其次，融化了所有的自私，並在對基督徒合一那熱切而灼熱的認識中，甚至吞滅了個體的意識。凡物公用不過是這點的外在表達，在這種情況下是自然而然的。
英語原文
31-37. place was shaken--glorious token of the commotion which the Gospel was to make
(Ac 17:6;
compare
Ac 16:26),
and the overthrow of all opposing powers in which this was to issue.
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and spake, &c.--The Spirit rested upon the entire community, first, in the very way they had asked, so that they "spake the word with boldness"
(Ac 4:29, 31);
next, in melting down all selfishness, and absorbing even the feeling of individuality in an intense and glowing realization of Christian unity. The community of goods was but an outward expression of this, and natural in such circumstances.
33
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33. 有大能力——對人心思的影響。
眾人也都大蒙恩惠——神的恩典豐豐富富地降在整個群體之上。
英語原文
33. with great power--effect on men's minds.
great grace was upon them all--The grace of God copiously rested on the whole community.
35
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35. 放在使徒的腳前——他們或許坐在眾人之上。但這說法也可能僅僅源自那一做法，此處只是比喻性的用法。
英語原文
35. laid . . . at the apostles' feet--sitting, it may be, above the rest. But the expression may be merely derived from that practice, and here meant figuratively.
36
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36. 有一個利未人，生在居比路，名叫約瑟 等等——這裡只是舉出那瀰漫在眾人心中慷慨奉獻精神的一個突出例子。
勸慰子——無疑是從他事奉的特色而得名。
利未人——利未支派雖然沒有產業，但作為個人可以、也確實擁有財產（De 18:8）。
居比路——地中海中一座知名的島嶼。
英語原文
36. Joses, &c.--This is specified merely as an eminent example of that spirit of generous sacrifice which pervaded all.
son of consolation--no doubt so surnamed from the character of his ministry.
a Levite--who, though as a tribe having no inheritance, might and did acquire property as individuals
(De 18:8).
Cyprus--a well-known island in the Mediterranean.
徒4:1-13。
彼得和約翰在公會面前。
1-12. 官長——利未衛兵的官長。
殿的——因周圍造成的騷擾而惱怒。
和撒都該人——他們「說沒有復活」
(Ac 23:8)，
因使徒「奉（更確切地說『在』）耶穌傳死人復活」而憤怒；因為基督的復活若是事實，就有效地推翻了撒都該人的教義。