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Genesis Capítulo 7
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Ge 7:1-24.
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Ge 7:1-24.
ENTRANCE INTO THE ARK.
1. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark--The ark was finished; and Noah now, in the spirit of implicit faith, which had influenced his whole conduct, waited for directions from God.
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2, 3. すべての清い獣……鳥について——深海の住人を除く、すべての動物種のつがいが、それぞれの種を保存するために取られるべきであった。これが入場の一般規則であった。ただ「清い」と呼ばれる動物については、獣であれ鳥であれ、三組のつがいが取られるべきであった。その理由は、地が刷新されたとき、食物として、あるいは人間の奉仕に用いられるために、彼らの急速な繁殖が極めて重要であったからである。しかし第七の用途は何であったか。それは明らかに犠牲のために取っておかれた。そしてこれにより、ノアが箱舟に滞在している間も、また乾いた地に戻った後も、堕落した人の宗教に従って礼拝の儀式を行うための備えがなされていた。彼は多くの者のように、宗教を後に残さなかった。彼はその長期の航海の間、宗教のために備えたのである。
Original em inglês
2, 3. Of every clean beast . . . fowls--Pairs of every species of animals, except the tenants of the deep, were to be taken for the preservation of their respective kinds. This was the general rule of admission, only with regard to those animals which are styled "clean," three pairs were to be taken, whether of beasts or birds; and the reason was that their rapid multiplication was a matter of the highest importance, when the earth should be renovated, for their utility either as articles of food or as employed in the service of man. But what was the use of the seventh? It was manifestly reserved for sacrifice; and so that both during Noah's residence in the ark, and after his return to dry land, provision was made for celebrating the rites of worship according to the religion of fallen man. He did not, like many, leave religion behind. He provided for it during his protracted voyage.
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4. なお七日あれば——世界が悔い改めるための一週間。なんという厳粛な間。彼らはまだ彼の愚かさを笑い、あざけったであろうか。人の目で不義とねじけのすべてを見、心で感じた方が、彼らの無謀な無関心について私たちに告げている
(Lu 17:27)。
Original em inglês
4. For yet seven days--A week for a world to repent! What a solemn pause! Did they laugh and ridicule his folly still? He whose eyes saw and whose heart felt the full amount of human iniquity and perverseness has told us of their reckless disregard
(Lu 17:27).
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9. 二つずつはいっていった——疑いなく彼らは神の衝動によって導かれた。その数は一見して想像するほど多くはない。百の異なる種の獣と鳥はなく、形、大きさ、色に関する膨大な多様性は気候やその他の事情の影響に帰せられると計算されている。
Original em inglês
9. There went in two and two--Doubtless they were led by a divine impulse. The number would not be so large as at first sight one is apt to imagine. It has been calculated that there are not more than three hundred distinct species of beasts and birds, the immense varieties in regard to form, size, and color being traceable to the influence of climate and other circumstances.
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16. 主は彼の後を閉ざされた——文字どおりには「彼をぐるりと覆われた」。「彼を閉ざされた」ことは、ノアが神的な配慮と保護の特別な対象となったこと、そして外にいる者たちには恵みの時代が終わったことを示唆する
(Mt 25:10)。
Original em inglês
16. and the Lord shut him in--literally, "covered him round about." The "shutting him in" intimated that Noah had become the special object of divine care and protection, and that to those without the season of grace was over
(Mt 25:10).
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17. 水はますます増して、箱舟を浮かべた——箱舟は居住者にはほとんど気づかれないほど徐々に引き上げられたようである。
Original em inglês
17. the waters increased, and bare up the ark--It seems to have been raised so gradually as to be scarcely perceptible to its occupants.
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20. 水は十五キュビト高くなり、山々は覆われた——最も高い丘の頂を二十二・五フィート上回っていた。この言葉は部分的洪水の理論とは相容れない。
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20. Fifteen cubits upward . . . and the mountains were covered--twenty-two and a half feet above the summits of the highest hills. The language is not consistent with the theory of a partial deluge.
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21. すべて肉なる者は死んだ……鳥……家畜、そして……這うもの——神の御業において、さばきが地に下るとき、御怒りの罪深い対象に結びつくすべてのものを含めることが一貫した原則であった
(Ge 19:25; Ex 9:6)。
それに加えて、人類が今や一つの家族に減じたので、獣も比例して減らされねばならなかった。さもなければ、その数によって彼らは優位を占め、世界を再び住まわせることになるわずかな者たちを圧倒したであろう。このようにして、恵みは厳しさと交じり合っていた。主は知恵をもってさばきを行い、怒りの中にあってあわれみを覚えておられる。
Original em inglês
21. all flesh died . . . fowl . . . cattle, and . . . creeping thing--It has been a uniform principle in the divine procedure, when judgments were abroad on the earth, to include every thing connected with the sinful objects of His wrath
(Ge 19:25; Ex 9:6).
Besides, now that the human race was reduced to one single family, it was necessary that the beasts should be proportionally diminished, otherwise by their numbers they would have acquired the ascendancy and overmastered the few that were to repeople the world. Thus goodness was mingled with severity; the Lord exercises judgment in wisdom and in wrath remembers mercy.
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24. 百五十日——五ヶ月の期間である。あらゆる生き物が溺死するずっと前であったにもかかわらず、洪水がこのように長く続いたのは、罪と罪人に対する神の厳粛な不快感を示すためであった。このような危機の間のノアを考えてみよ。私たちは学ぶ
(Eze 14:14)、
彼が祈りの雰囲気の中に habitually（習慣的に）生き、息をする人であったことを。そしてこの高潔な信仰を働かせて神を避け所としたので、「水が鳴り響き、かき乱されても、山々がその膨張によって揺れても」恐れなかった
[Ps 46:3]。
Original em inglês
24. an hundred and fifty days--a period of five months. Though long before that every living creature must have been drowned, such a lengthened continuance of the flood was designed to manifest God's stern displeasure at sin and sinners. Think of Noah during such a crisis. We learn
(Eze 14:14)
that he was a man who lived and breathed habitually in an atmosphere of devotion; and having in the exercise of this high-toned faith made God his refuge, he did not fear "though the waters roared and were troubled; though the mountains shook with the swelling thereof"
[Ps 46:3].
Ge 7:1-24.
箱舟への入場。
1. 主はノアに仰せられた、あなたとあなたの全家とで箱舟に入りなさい——箱舟は完成した。そしてノアは今、その全歩みを導いてきた暗黙の信仰の霊をもって、神からの指示を待っていた。