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Ge 11:1-32.
英語原文
Ge 11:1-32.
CONFUSION OF TONGUES.
1. the whole earth was of one language. The descendants of Noah, united by the strong bond of a common language, had not separated, and notwithstanding the divine command to replenish the earth, were unwilling to separate. The more pious and well-disposed would of course obey the divine will; but a numerous body, seemingly the aggressive horde mentioned
(Ge 10:10),
determined to please themselves by occupying the fairest region they came to.
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2. 示拿地——他们选了那由伯拉大河和希底结河滋润的肥沃平原，作为他们联合的中心和势力的所在。
英語原文
2. land of Shinar--The fertile valley watered by the Euphrates and Tigris was chosen as the center of their union and the seat of their power.
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3. 砖——那地一带没有石头，砖便是唯一用作建筑的材料，今昔皆然；在比尔尼姆鲁的废墟堆中可见一斑，那也许就是那些古叛党所造的城。其中有些是日晒砖，有些是窑烧砖，颜色各异。
石漆——沥青，矿物焦油，凝固后成坚固的胶结料，至今仍普遍用于亚述，亦是古烧砖遗物上所见之灰浆。
英語原文
3. brick--There being no stone in that quarter, brick is, and was, the only material used for building, as appears in the mass of ruins which at the Birs Nimroud may have been the very town formed by those ancient rebels. Some of these are sun-dried--others burnt in the kiln and of different colors.
slime--bitumen, a mineral pitch, which, when hardened, forms a strong cement, commonly used in Assyria to this day, and forming the mortar found on the burnt brick remains of antiquity.
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4. 一座塔，塔顶通天——这是形容高大的常用比喻性说法
(De 1:28；9:1-6)。
免得我们分散——建城建塔本非罪；但为要挫败天意、企图阻止人移民而这样作，便是愚昧、邪恶、理当得罪神。
英語原文
4. a tower whose top may reach unto heaven--a common figurative expression for great height
(De 1:28; 9:1-6).
lest we be scattered--To build a city and a town was no crime; but to do this to defeat the counsels of heaven by attempting to prevent emigration was foolish, wicked, and justly offensive to God.
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6. 以后他们所要作的事就没有可拦阻的了——这显然承认那计谋是可行的，若非神的干预，便会执行。
英語原文
6. and now nothing will be restrained from them--an apparent admission that the design was practicable, and would have been executed but for the divine interposition.
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7. 变乱他们的口音——直译“他们的嘴唇”；这是发音上的失败，导致只在本部族内才能听懂的方言差异。神如此轻易地挫败了他们的目的，使他们被迫分散——这正是他们联合要防止的。我们惟从圣经才能知道世界各民族和各语言的真起源。借一次方言的神迹，人便分散，并渐渐从真信仰堕落。借另一次，民族的藩篱被拆毁——好叫万民都归回神的家中。
英語原文
7. confound their language--literally, "their lip"; it was a failure in utterance, occasioning a difference in dialect which was intelligible only to those of the same tribe. Thus easily by God their purpose was defeated, and they were compelled to the dispersion they had combined to prevent. It is only from the Scriptures we learn the true origin of the different nations and languages of the world. By one miracle of tongues men were dispersed and gradually fell from true religion. By another, national barriers were broken down--that all men might be brought back to the family of God.
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28. 吾珥——今之 Orfa；即"光"或"火"之意。其名大概因献于拜火的礼仪而得。他拉和他的家人与其余居民一样，都同样沾染了那偶像崇拜
(书 24:15)。
英語原文
28. Ur--now Orfa; that is, "light," or "fire." Its name probably derived from its being devoted to the rites of fire-worship. Terah and his family were equally infected with that idolatry as the rest of the inhabitants
(Jos 24:15).
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31. 儿妇撒莱——即前文的亦迦
[Ge 11:29]，
是他拉孙女，大概是他拉第二个妻子所生，按古例可与叔伯亚伯拉罕成婚。
他们到了哈兰——在吾珥以南偏东两天路程，直通拉卡的伯拉河渡口，是前往巴勒斯坦最近最便的路。
英語原文
31. Sarai his daughter-in-law--the same as Iscah
[Ge 11:29],
granddaughter of Terah, probably by a second wife, and by early usages considered marriageable to her uncle, Abraham.
they came unto Haran--two days' journey south-southeast from Ur, on the direct road to the ford of the Euphrates at Rakka, the nearest and most convenient route to Palestine.
Ge 11:1-32.
口音的变乱。
1. 那时全地只有一种语言。 挪亚的后裔，因共同语言的强固纽带联合在一起，并未分开；尽管神吩咐他们遍满全地，他们却不愿意分散。那些更敬虔、更顺服的人当然会遵行神的旨意；但有一大群人，看来就是
(Ge 10:10)
所提到的那批好侵略的部族，却决意自行其是，占据他们所见最肥美之地。