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Jud 16:1-3.
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Jud 16:1-3.
SAMSON CARRIES AWAY THE GATES OF GAZA.
1, 2. Gaza--now Guzzah, the capital of the largest of the five Philistine principal cities, about fifteen miles southwest of Ashkelon. The object of this visit to this city is not recorded, and unless he had gone in disguise, it was a perilous exposure of his life in one of the enemy's strongholds. It soon became known that he was there; and it was immediately resolved to secure him. But deeming themselves certain of their prey, the Gazites deferred the execution of their measure till the morning.
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3. 參孫……半夜起來，把城門的門扇——至今仍有一處殘破的石堆被人指點為城門舊址。它大概是城牆的一部分，而這一廢墟正「朝希伯崙方向」，所以這傳說並非沒有可能。
扛到希伯崙前的山頂上——那座山就是以勒蒙塔山；但這裏的「希伯崙」是指「希伯崙群山」；因為參孫若從迦薩逃離之後日夜不停地跑，最快也要到次日傍晚才能望見希伯崙城。那時的迦薩城，離以勒蒙塔山大概不少於三刻鐘的路程。在厚厚的沙土路上，肩扛那沉重的門扇與門閂爬到山頂，除了參孫，無人能成此事〔范德維爾德〕。
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3. Samson . . . arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city--A ruinous pile of masonry is still pointed out as the site of the gate. It was probably a part of the town wall, and as this ruin is "toward Hebron," there is no improbability in the tradition.
carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron--That hill is El-Montar; but by Hebron in this passage is meant "the mountains of Hebron"; for otherwise Samson, had he run night and day from the time of his flight from Gaza, could only have come on the evening of the following day within sight of the city of Hebron. The city of Gaza was, in those days, probably not less than three-quarters of an hour distant from El-Montar. To have climbed to the top of this hill with the ponderous doors and their bolts on his shoulders, through a road of thick sand, was a feat which none but a Samson could have accomplished [VAN DE VELDE].
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Jud 16:4-14.
Jud 16:4-14.
大利拉被非利士人收買。
4. 他愛梭烈谷的一個女子——這地方的位置不詳，大利拉的為人也無法確定。她的住處、貪財的本性、以及無情的甜言蜜語，都叫人不得不信她是個放蕩的女子。
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Jud 16:4-14.
DELILAH CORRUPTED BY THE PHILISTINES.
4. he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek--The location of this place is not known, nor can the character of Delilah be clearly ascertained. Her abode, her mercenary character, and her heartless blandishments afford too much reason to believe she was a profligate woman.
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5. 非利士人的首領——這五位首領認為，為要制服這個民族公敵，任何手段都不算卑屈。
你哄勸他，看他因何有這樣大的力氣——他們大概猜想他身上帶著甚麼護身符，或掌握了某種重要的秘訣，才獲得這般巨力；他們便收買大利拉——無疑以重金懸賞——要她替他們查出底細。她應承了這差事，作了多次嘗試；趁他心軟話多的時候，運用一切勸誘奉承之術，要套出他的秘密。
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5. the lords of the Philistines--The five rulers deemed no means beneath their dignity to overcome this national enemy.
Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth--They probably imagined that he carried some amulet about his person, or was in the possession of some important secret by which he had acquired such herculean strength; and they bribed Delilah, doubtless by a large reward, to discover it for them. She undertook the service and made several attempts, plying all her arts of persuasion or blandishment in his soft and communicative moods, to extract his secret.
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7. 參孫說……他們若用七條未乾的青繩子捆綁我——葡萄藤蔓、柔韌的細枝，或生植物莖編成的繩索，至今仍為許多東方國家所使用。
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7. Samson said . . ., If they bind me with seven green withs--Vine tendrils, pliant twigs, or twists made of crude vegetable stalks are used in many Eastern countries for ropes at the present day.
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8. 她就用這些東西捆綁他——大概是帶著嬉笑的態度，要試試他到底是說笑還是當真。
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8. she bound him with them--probably in a sportive manner, to try whether he was jesting or in earnest.
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9. 有人預先埋伏……在內室——希伯來文直譯為「在屋內的內裏」，即「屋中最隱密之處」。
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9. there were men lying in wait, abiding . . . in the chamber--The Hebrew, literally rendered, is, "in the inner," or "most secret part of the house."
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10. 大利拉說——為避免引起疑心，她必是隔了一段時間，才作下一次的嘗試。
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10. And Delilah said--To avoid exciting suspicion, she must have allowed some time to elapse before making this renewed attempt.
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12. 新繩——並未說明是用甚麼材料；但從「未曾用過」一語看，大概是像前次那樣的樹枝所製。希伯來文表明它們是擰成的，粗而結實。
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12. new ropes--It is not said of what material they were formed; but from their being dried, it is probable they were of twigs, like the former. The Hebrew intimates that they were twisted, and of a thick, strong description.
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13. 你若把我頭上的七條髮綹與緯線同織——髮綹即編成的辮子；參孫像東方許多人一樣，喜歡把頭髮編成辮子。織布本是婦女的工作；大利拉的織機大概就在手邊。那織機構造很簡單：緯線不用筘，而是用一根木製的扁刀穿入經線。布的末端繫在釘於牆或地上的釘子或樁上；大利拉蹲坐在織機前，參孫則伸開身體躺在地上，頭枕在她的膝上——這在東方是很常見的姿勢。
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13. If thou weavest the seven locks of my head--braids or tresses, into which, like many in the East, he chose to plait his hair. Working at the loom was a female employment; and Delilah's appears to have been close at hand. It was of a very simple construction; the woof was driven into the warp, not by a reed, but by a wooden spatula. The extremity of the web was fastened to a pin or stake fixed in the wall or ground; and while Delilah sat squatting at her loom, Samson lay stretched on the floor, with his head reclining on her lap--a position very common in the East.
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14. 連橛子和織布機都拿走了——即整套織布器具。
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14. went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web--that is, the whole weaving apparatus.
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Jud 16:15-20.
Jud 16:15-20.
他失敗了。
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Jud 16:15-20.
HE IS OVERCOME.
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16. 大利拉天天用話催逼他——這個邪惡的女人雖然失望而受挫，卻決心繼續堅持；她深知參孫已被對她的情慾徹底奴役，便用一連串誘惑的手段攻擊他，直到她終於發現了她渴求的秘密。
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16. she pressed him daily with her words--Though disappointed and mortified, this vile woman resolved to persevere; and conscious how completely he was enslaved by his passion for her, she assailed him with a succession of blandishing arts, till she at length discovered the coveted secret.
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17. 若剃了我的頭髮，我的力量就離開我——他的超凡之力並非源於他的頭髮，而是源於他作為拿細耳人與神之間的特殊關係。他未剃的長髮是他拿細耳人之願的記號，也是神應許繼續賜他超自然力量的憑據。
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17. if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me--His herculean powers did not arise from his hair, but from his peculiar relation to God as a Nazarite. His unshorn locks were a sign of his Nazaritism, and a pledge on the part of God that his supernatural strength would be continued.
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19. 大利拉叫了一個人來，剃光他頭上的七條髮綹——然而古時希伯來人剃頭髮是否如今東方人那樣徹底，尚不能確定。所用的詞有時與剪羊毛之詞相同，因此所用器具可能只是剪刀。
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19. she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head--It is uncertain, however, whether the ancient Hebrews cut off the hair to the same extent as Orientals now. The word employed is sometimes the same as that for shearing sheep, and therefore the instrument might be only scissors.
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20. 他卻不知道耶和華已經離開他了——何等令人痛心而羞恥的景象！他失去了屬神的感動，品格也墮落了，卻因著罪惡情慾的迷惑，幾乎不曾察覺自己墮落景況的悲慘！
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20. he wist not that the Lord was departed from him--What a humiliating and painful spectacle! Deprived of the divine influences, degraded in his character, and yet, through the infatuation of a guilty passion, scarcely awake to the wretchedness of his fallen condition!
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Jud 16:21, 22.
Jud 16:21, 22.
非利士人拿住他，剜了他的眼睛。
21. 非利士人拿住他，剜了他的眼睛——在東方，有身分地位的俘虜通常遭受這種殘酷的剝奪。刑罰以各種方式執行：挖出眼球、刺穿眼睛，或將燒紅的鐵器放在眼前毀壞視力。為了加倍確保他不致逃脫，他被銅（銅或青銅）的鎖鏈捆綁，而不像其他俘虜那樣用皮帶。
在監裡推磨——用手磨推磨既是奴僕的工作，他被派作此事，便是極度的貶辱。
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Jud 16:21, 22.
THE PHILISTINES TOOK HIM AND PUT OUT HIS EYES.
21. the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes--To this cruel privation prisoners of rank and consequence have commonly been subjected in the East. The punishment is inflicted in various ways, by scooping out the eyeballs, by piercing the eye, or destroying the sight by holding a red-hot iron before the eyes. His security was made doubly sure by his being bound with fetters of brass (copper), not of leather, like other captives.
he did grind in the prison-house--This grinding with hand-millstones being the employment of menials, he was set to it as the deepest degradation.
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22. 然而他頭上的頭髮又漸漸長起來了——他此時大概已經反省自己的愚妄；成為真誠悔改的人，重新守了他拿細耳人的願。「他的頭髮與他的悔改一同生長，他的力量與他的頭髮一同增長」[霍爾主教]。
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22. Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again--It is probable that he had now reflected on his folly; and becoming a sincere penitent, renewed his Nazarite vow. "His hair grew together with his repentance, and his strength with his hairs" [BISHOP HALL].
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Jud 16:23-25.
Jud 16:23-25.
他們向大袞獻祭的宴席。
23. 非利士人的首領聚集，要為大袞獻大祭——異教國家在隆重的宗教節期回來之際，將戰俘從囚禁或奴役之地帶出來，乃是常見的習俗；他們在戰俘身上堆砌各樣的凌辱，藉此向那些幫助他們戰勝仇敵的神明獻上感恩的貢物。大袞是海中的偶像，通常被描繪為頭和上半身是人形，身體的其餘部分則像魚。
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Jud 16:23-25.
THEIR FEAST TO DAGON.
23. the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon--It was a common practice in heathen nations, on the return of their solemn religious festivals, to bring forth their war prisoners from their places of confinement or slavery; and, in heaping on them every species of indignity, they would offer their grateful tribute to the gods by whose aid they had triumphed over their enemies. Dagon was a sea idol, usually represented as having the head and upper parts human, while the rest of the body resembled a fish.
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Jud 16:26-31.
Jud 16:26-31.
他的死亡。
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Jud 16:26-31.
HIS DEATH.
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27. 房頂上約有三千男女，觀看參孫戲耍——這座建築似乎與羅馬人那種寬敞的露天圓形劇場相似，至今在東方許多國家仍可見到。這些建築全用木材建造。觀眾站立之處是架在兩根柱子上的木地板，按傾斜面升起，使所有人都能看見中央的場地。中間有兩根大梁，整個結構的重量都落在其上，而這兩根梁又由兩根幾乎彼此相連的柱子支撐；因此一旦這兩根柱子鬆動或移位，整座建築便必然塌落在地。
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27. there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport--This building seems to have been similar to the spacious and open amphitheaters well known among the Romans and still found in many countries of the East. They are built wholly of wood. The standing place for the spectators is a wooden floor resting upon two pillars and rising on an inclined plane, so as to enable all to have a view of the area in the center. In the middle there are two large beams, on which the whole weight of the structure lies, and these beams are supported by two pillars placed almost close to each other, so that when these are unsettled or displaced, the whole pile must tumble to the ground.
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28. 參孫求告耶和華——他悔改禱告的心靈似乎清楚地表明，這件經過深思的行動，並不是出於報復性的自殺，他是以公開長官的身分運用自己的力量。事實上，應當把他看作是為國捐軀。他的死並非他所設計或追求的，除非這可能是他這項偉大努力不可避免的後果。他的禱告必定是無聲的呼求，而從史家蒙啟示將其記錄下來一事可知，這禱告已蒙神悅納和應允。
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28. Samson called unto the Lord--His penitent and prayerful spirit seems clearly to indicate that this meditated act was not that of a vindictive suicide, and that he regarded himself as putting forth his strength in his capacity of a public magistrate. He must be considered, in fact, as dying for his country's cause. His death was not designed or sought, except as it might be the inevitable consequence of his great effort. His prayer must have been a silent ejaculation, and, from its being revealed to the historian, approved and accepted of God.
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31. 參孫的弟兄和他父的全家都下來，取了他的屍首，抬上去葬了——這可怕的災禍似乎使非利士人完全癱瘓，他們既沒有試圖阻止搬走參孫的屍體，此後很久也沒有騷擾以色列人。於是這位以色列英雄以他的力量和勇氣為國家作出了卓越的貢獻，並且一直被視為以色列最偉大的勇士。然而他如此受制於情慾的奴役，與他這樣偉大的人物不相稱，也減損了我們對他品格的敬意。即便如此，他仍被列在那些對神堅守信心的古時聖徒之中
(Heb 11:32)。
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31. Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him--This awful catastrophe seems to have so completely paralyzed the Philistines, that they neither attempted to prevent the removal of Samson's corpse, nor to molest the Israelites for a long time after. Thus the Israelitish hero rendered by his strength and courage signal services to his country, and was always regarded as the greatest of its champions. But his slavish subjection to the domination of his passions was unworthy of so great a man and lessens our respect for his character. Yet he is ranked among the ancient worthies who maintained a firm faith in God
(Heb 11:32).
Jud 16:1-3.
參孫扛走迦薩的城門。
1、2. 迦薩——即今日的加薩，是非利士五大城邦中最大的一座的都城，位於亞實基倫西南約十五英里。他為何造訪此城，並未記載；除非他是喬裝前往，否則深入敵方要塞，實在性命堪憂。他在那裏的消息很快傳開；眾人立刻決定要捉拿他。但迦薩人自以為獵物唾手可得，便將行動推延到早晨。