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Ezekiel 31:1
英文原文
In the third month - More than a month before Jerusalem was taken (compare Jeremiah 39:2).
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Ezekiel 31:3
针对埃及的第五篇预言:借亚述人的命运警告法老。亚述帝国在称霸亚细亚四个世纪之后,于迦基米施之战的那一年（主前605年）——正是那一战击碎了埃及的权势——被巴比伦与米底联军倾覆。这使借亚述倾覆向埃及发出的警告更有力量。
英文原文
Fifth prophecy against Egypt: a warning to Pharaoh from the fate of the Assyrians. The Assyrian empire, after having been supreme in Asia for four centuries, had been overthrown by the united forces of the Babylonians and Medes, in the year of the battle of Carchemish (605 b.c.), which had broken the power of Egypt. This gives force to the warning to Egypt from Assyria's fall.
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Ezekiel 31:4
他的栽子 - 更宜作「她的栽种之地」。水代表流入亚述的财富与权势。
英文原文
His plants - Rather, her plantation. The water represents the riches and might which flowed into Assyria.
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Ezekiel 31:5
他发出枝子的时候 - 或作「深水涌出其溪流之时」。
英文原文
When be shot forth - Or, when the deep water sent forth its streams.
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Ezekiel 31:8
神的园 - 即乐园。
英文原文
Garden of God - Paradise.
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Ezekiel 31:10
亚述的倾覆。
英文原文
Assyria's fall.
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Ezekiel 31:11
更准确地说：「所以我必将他交付……他必怎样对待他。我已经将他逐出……」等等。
英文原文
More accurately: Therefore I will deliver him, etc ... he shall surely deal with him. I have driven him out, etc.
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Ezekiel 31:14
他们的树木 - 不如按页边注作「凭自己站立」，意即「靠自己的力量站立」。这样，这子句便是：「好使凡喝水的都不致凭自己的力量站立」。「凡喝水的」指财富与昌盛源源流入的强盛君王；埃及人的一切都仰赖尼罗河的水。其要旨是：亚述的倾覆乃是被命定，好叫地上的强者学会不可骄傲自高、也不可倚靠自己，因为他们同样必须分担必死的共同命运。
英文原文
Their trees - Rather, as in the margin, "standing unto themselves" meaning "standing in their own strength." The clause will then run thus: "Neither all that drink water stand up" in their own strength. "All that drink water" means mighty princes to whom wealth and prosperity flow in. The Egyptians owed everything to the waters of the Nile. The substance is, that Assyria's fall was decreed in order that the mighty ones of the earth might learn not to exalt themselves in pride or to rely on themselves, seeing that they must share the common lot of mortality.
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Ezekiel 31:15
亚述倾覆的影响。
Ezekiel 31:15
我使深水遮盖——以麻布遮盖是哀悼的表达（Ezekiel 27:31）。那曾作亚述繁荣之源的深水（Ezekiel 31:4），不再涌出令人欢喜的丰富水量，而是干涸，因而哀悼。
为他——即因他的缘故。
大水……诸水——或作「诸河……许多水」（如 Ezekiel 31:4-5）。
黎巴嫩代表亚述所统辖的国；「树木」代表进贡的众君王。
英文原文
Effect of Assyria's fall.
Ezekiel 31:15
I covered the deep - To cover with sack-cloth was an expression of mourning Ezekiel 27:31. The deep, the source of Assyria's prosperity Ezekiel 31:4, was made to mourn, being dried up instead of giving forth its waters, its glad abundance.
For him - Upon his account.
Floods ... great waters - Or, rivers ... the multitude of waters (as in Ezekiel 31:4-5).
Lebanon represents the country which Assyria governed; "the trees," the tributary princes.
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Ezekiel 31:16
参见页边注的参考经文。
英文原文
See the marginal references.
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Ezekiel 31:17
"他的膀臂……"——指那些附属的君王，他们是他在战争中的力量与支援。
英文原文
His arm ... - The subject princes who were his strength and support in war.
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Ezekiel 31:18
这是对法老的应用。
"未受割礼的"——埃及人，至少他们的贵族，是行割礼的。这样，法老竟与埃及人自己视为不洁的人一同蒙羞。
英文原文
Application to Pharaoh.
The uncircumcised - The Egyptians, at least their nobles, were circumcised. Pharaoh should thus be dishonored with those whom the Egyptians themselves deemed unclean.
三月 - 早于耶路撒冷被攻取一个多月（比较 Jeremiah 39:2）。