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Numbers 2:2
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standard ... ensign - The "standard" marked the division, or camp (cf. Numbers 1:9, Numbers 1:16, Numbers 1:24, Numbers 1:31); the "ensign" the family. There would thus be four "standards" only, one for each "camp" of three tribes. The "standard" was probably a solid figure or emblem mounted on a pole, such as the Egyptians used. Tradition appropriates the four cherubic forms (Ezekiel 1:5-12; Revelation 4:7 ff), the lion, man, ox, and eagle, to the camps of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan respectively; and this, as to the first, has a certain support from Genesis 49:9 (compare Revelation 5:5), and as to the third, from Deuteronomy 33:17.
Far off - See the margin, over against; i. e. facing the tabernacle on every side. The distance was perhaps 2,000 cubits or rather more than 14 mile: compare Joshua 3:4.
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Numbers 2:3
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下圖說明營地的大體佈置；實際的安排會因各處的地方需要而有所不同。營地的面積可能約為三平方英里：
영문 원문
The following plan shows the general arrangement of the camp, which would vary in different places according to local exigencies. The area of the camp might be about three square miles:
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Numbers 2:14
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「流珥」——無疑是 Numbers 1:14「丟珥」的抄寫之誤。
영문 원문
Reuel - Doubtless an error of transcription for Deuel Numbers 1:14.
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Numbers 2:33
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這就是曠野安營的理想形式：這形式後來重現於四面圍繞聖殿的方形庭院，也重現於以西結所見天上之城的異象（Ezekiel 48:20），以及約翰所見的異象（Revelation 21:16；對照 Revelation 20:9）。這樣，神地上子民的營幕便蒙神安排佈置，以顯明祂教會的完全；並藉着那由中央會幕所決定的整體佈置，同時表明萬有對神的倚靠，以及人人得以親近神的通路。
영문 원문
Such was the ideal form of the encampment in the wilderness: a form reproduced in the square court with which the temple was eventually surrounded, and in the vision of the heavenly city as seen by Ezekiel EZechariah 48:20, and by John (Revelation 21:16; compare Revelation 20:9). Thus the camp of God's earthly people was divinely ordered so as to set forth the completeness of His Church; and to illustrate by its whole arrangement, which was determined by the tabernacle in the center, both the dependance of all on God, and the access which all enjoyed to God.
「纛……旗號」——「纛」標示分隊,即營(參 Numbers 1:9、Numbers 1:16、Numbers 1:24、Numbers 1:31);「旗號」則標示家族。因此「纛」應只有四面,由三個支派組成的各「營」各有一面。「纛」大概是安裝在杆上的立體形像或徽記,如埃及人所用的那樣。傳統將四個基路伯形像(Ezekiel 1:5-12;Revelation 4:7 及以下)——獅子、人、牛、鷹——分別歸於猶大、流便、以法蓮、但四營;這種說法,就第一個而言,在某種程度上得到 Genesis 49:9 的支持(參 Revelation 5:5),就第三個而言,則得到 Deuteronomy 33:17 的支持。
「遠處」——見邊注所載「對著」,即從四面對著會幕。其距離也許是二千肘,即略多於四分之一英里:參 Joshua 3:4。