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1Sa 9:1-14.
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1Sa 9:1-14.
SAUL, DESPAIRING TO FIND HIS FATHER'S ASSES, COMES TO SAMUEL.
1. a mighty man of power--that is, of great wealth and substance. The family was of high consideration in the tribe of Benjamin, and therefore Saul's words must be set down among the common forms of affected humility, which Oriental people are wont to use.
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2节. 扫罗是一个又健壮又俊美的少年人. 他外貌英俊；因为很明显他只比七英尺矮一点。在那个时代那地，高大的身材和健壮的体格必是受人欢迎的优势条件。
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2. Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly--He had a fine appearance; for it is evident that he must have been only a little under seven feet tall. A gigantic stature and an athletic frame must have been a popular recommendation at that time in that country.
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3节. 扫罗的父亲基士丢了几头母驴。基士对扫罗说……起来，去寻找驴. 很可能是按照纯牧区东方牧人自古以来的惯例，基士家在放牧季节任牲畜自由游荡，季节一过便派人寻找。这样的旅行搜寻很常见；每个主人都在自己的牲畜上打有自己的印记，向所遇见的牧人提及这事，便能逐步发现走失的牲畜。扫罗的这趟游荡本无特别之处，只是其更高的指引与结局是例外，把不确定的事变成确定的事。
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3. the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul . . . arise, go seek the asses--The probability is that the family of Kish, according to the immemorial usage of Oriental shepherds in the purely pastoral regions, had let the animals roam at large during the grazing season, at the close of which messengers were despatched in search of them. Such travelling searches are common; and, as each owner has his own stamp marked on his cattle, the mention of it to the shepherds he meets gradually leads to the discovery of the strayed animals. This ramble of Saul's had nothing extraordinary in it, except its superior directions and issue, which turned its uncertainty into certainty.
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4, 5. 他走遍以法莲山地——这地在便雅悯以北,可看出扫罗此行的方向。所探索的地域是指以法莲全境的山地,连同其中的山谷与隘口。他显然折向南行——大概穿过示罗与约旦谷(沙利沙和沙琳)之间翠绿的山冈——又回到便雅悯边界附近,搜遍苏弗地,正打算回去时,他的仆人想起他们就在神人附近,那人必能给他们指点。
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4, 5. he passed through mount Ephraim--This being situated on the north of Benjamin, indicates the direction of Saul's journey. The district explored means the whole of the mountainous region, with its valleys and defiles, which belonged to Ephraim. Turning apparently southwards--probably through the verdant hills between Shiloh and the vales of Jordan (Shalisha and Shalim)--he approached again the borders of Benjamin, scoured the land of Zuph, and was proposing to return, when his servant recollected that they were in the immediate neighborhood of the man of God, who would give them counsel.
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6. 这城里有一位神人——拉玛原是撒母耳惯常的住所,但有几处情形——尤其是提到拉结的坟墓,那正在扫罗回家的路上(1Sa 10:2)——使我们有根据断定「这城」并不是撒母耳所住的拉玛。
或者他能把我们当走的路指给我们——这样一件事情去请教一位地位尊崇的先知,似乎奇怪。但有可能在先知职分初立之时,先见们能寻见失物或被盗之物,借此他们传更高启示的权柄便逐步建立起来。
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6. there is in this city a man of God--Ramah was the usual residence of Samuel, but several circumstances, especially the mention of Rachel's sepulchre, which lay in Saul's way homeward
[1Sa 10:2],
lead to the conclusion that "this city" was not the Ramah where Samuel dwelt.
peradventure he can show us our way that we should go--It seems strange that a dignified prophet should be consulted in such an affair. But it is probable that at the introduction of the prophetic office, the seers had discovered things lost or stolen, and thus their power for higher revelations was gradually established.
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7节. 扫罗对仆人说，我们若去，能带给那人什么呢？. 按东方的观念，手里不拿任何礼物——无论价值多么微薄——就到一位地位或官职较高的人面前，被视为失礼。
我们器皿里的食物都吃尽了. 牧人寻牲畜时，常在袋中装够三十天之用的面粉做饼。看来扫罗想从旅行袋里取一块饼给神人；这已足以尽那不可少的礼节——对官式尊严的惯常敬意。
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7. Saul said to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man?--According to Eastern notions, it would be considered a want of respect for any person to go into the presence of a superior man of rank or of official station without a present of some kind in his hand, however trifling in value.
the bread is spent in our vessels--Shepherds, going in quest of their cattle, put up in a bag as much flour for making bread as will last sometimes for thirty days. It appears that Saul thought of giving the man of God a cake from his travelling bag, and this would have been sufficient to render the indispensable act of civility--the customary tribute to official dignity.
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8. 银子一舍客勒的四分之一——略多于六便士。与西方观念相反,在东方,银子是献给地位之人的礼物中最受欢迎的形式。
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8. the fourth part of a shekel of silver--rather more than sixpence. Contrary to our Western notions, money is in the East the most acceptable form in which a present can be made to a man of rank.
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9. 先见……先知——后期所认可的区分是:先见是蒙恩得见神异象——看见必朽肉眼所不能见之事的人;先知则是预告未来事件的人。
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9. seer . . . Prophet--The recognized distinction in latter times was, that a seer was one who was favored with visions of God--a view of things invisible to mortal sight; and a prophet foretold future events.
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11-13. 他们上坡进城的时候——今日的村落埃尔拉梅位于高地上。途中他们遇见一群出来打水的年轻女子;和巴勒斯坦所有类似之处一样,那口井在城的范围之外。他们从这些女子口中得知,那天是专为节期而设的日子,撒母耳为这节期已到了城里;已经献了祭——这是先知们在远离会幕的特殊情形下所作的事——随后还有筵席,暗示所献的是平安祭;并且按以色列人所看为可敬的惯例,人们期待神人在这样隆重的场合为食物求特别的祝福。
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11-13. as they went up the hill--The modern village, Er-Rameh, lies on an eminence; and on their way they met a band of young maidens going out to the well, which, like all similar places in Palestine, was beyond the precincts of the town. From these damsels they learned that the day was devoted to a festival occasion, in honor of which Samuel had arrived in the city; that a sacrifice had been offered, which was done by prophets in extraordinary circumstances at a distance from the tabernacle, and that a feast was to follow--implying that it had been a peace offering; and that, according to the venerable practice of the Israelites, the man of God was expected to ask a special blessing on the food in a manner becoming the high occasion.
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14. 撒母耳迎着他们出来,要上邱坛去——那时代的风气如此朴素,这位先知、以色列的首席人物,前去主持盛大节期时,无论是衣着还是行列都看不出与普通百姓有任何不同。
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14. Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place--Such were the simple manners of the times that this prophet, the chief man in Israel, was seen going to preside at a high festival undistinguished either by his dress or equipage from any ordinary citizen.
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1Sa 9:15-27.
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1Sa 9:15-27.
神向撒母耳启示 扫罗将到 并被立为王。
15, 16. 耶和华在前一天已在撒母耳耳边启示——扫罗的相貌、他到达的时间,以及他将被委任的高位,都从天上暗中告诉了撒母耳。这位以色列未来的王要为耶和华争战,并保护祂的百姓。看来他们此时正大受非利士人的侵扰,这也是他们急切要求立王的又一个原因(1Sa 10:5; 13:3)。
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1Sa 9:15-27.
GOD REVEALS TO SAMUEL SAUL'S COMING, AND HIS APPOINTMENT TO THE KINGDOM.
15, 16. Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before--The description of Saul, the time of his arrival, and the high office to which he was destined, had been secretly intimated to Samuel from heaven. The future king of Israel was to fight the battles of the Lord and protect His people. It would appear that they were at this time suffering great molestation from the Philistines, and that this was an additional reason of their urgent demands for the appointment of a king (see
1Sa 10:5; 13:3).
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18-20. 求你告诉我,先见住在哪里——撒母耳满足了这陌生人的询问,请他赴席,并请他留宿到次日;为使他乐意耽延,撒母耳向他保证那几头走失的驴已经寻见。
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18-20. Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is--Satisfying the stranger's inquiry, Samuel invited him to the feast, as well as to sojourn till the morrow; and, in order to reconcile him to the delay, he assured him that the strayed asses had been recovered.
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20, 21. 以色列众人所仰慕的是谁呢?不是仰慕你和你父的全家吗?——这是对他将要得着之王权的含蓄、间接的预告;虽然扫罗的回答表明他完全明白这话,他却假装怀疑先知是否出于真心。
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20, 21. on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?--This was a covert and indirect premonition of the royal dignity that awaited him; and, though Saul's answer shows that he fully understood it, he affected to doubt that the prophet was in earnest.
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*21. 扫罗回答说:我不是以色列支派中便雅悯人、最小的吗?*等——神从这支最小且几乎灭绝的支派中拣选了一位王(Jud 20:46-48),为要除掉其他支派之间一切嫉妒的口实。
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21. And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, &c.--By selecting a king from this least and nearly extinct tribe
(Jud 20:46-48),
divine wisdom designed to remove all grounds of jealousy among the other tribes.
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22. 撒母耳领扫罗和他仆人进了客室——这位旅途劳顿却相貌高贵的人,突然发现自己坐在当地首要人物之中,并被待为最尊贵的客人。
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22. Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour--The toil-worn but noble-looking traveller found himself suddenly seated among the principal men of the place and treated as the most distinguished guest.
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24. 厨役把腿肉……拿来,摆在扫罗面前。撒母耳说:看哪,这是留起来的;摆在你面前吃吧——即「预留的」之意(Ge 18:7; Ge 43:34)。
这大概是右腿;作为祭司当得之份,它本属于撒母耳,他已为这位等待的客人把它留下。在埃及肉铺的浮雕中,首先卸下的也总是右腿,归给祭司。这些特别礼遇的含义,其他宾客必定心领神会。
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24. the cook took up the shoulder . . . and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left; set it before thee, and eat--that is, reserved (see on
Ge 18:7;
Ge 43:34).
This was, most probably, the right shoulder; which, as the perquisite of the sacrifice, belonged to Samuel, and which he had set aside for his expected guest. In the sculptures of the Egyptian shambles, also, the first joint taken off was always the right shoulder for the priest. The meaning of those distinguished attentions must have been understood by the other guests.
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25-27. 撒母耳在房顶上与扫罗说话——扫罗被安排在先知家中过夜。休息之前,他们在房顶的平顶上交谈——卧铺就设在那里(Jos 2:6)——那时撒母耳无疑把秘密向他透露,并描述了在像以色列这样与神圣君王紧密相连的国家里,君主所负的独特职责。次日清晨,撒母耳叫醒客人,送他朝城郊走去;临别之前,寻求一次私下的面谈——其目的记在下一章。
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25-27. Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house--Saul was taken to lodge with the prophet for that night. Before retiring to rest, they communed on the flat roof of the house, the couch being laid there
(Jos 2:6),
when, doubtless, Samuel revealed the secret and described the peculiar duties of a monarch in a nation so related to the Divine King as Israel. Next morning early, Samuel roused his guest, and conveying him on his way towards the skirts of the city, sought, before parting, a private interview--the object of which is narrated in the next chapter.
撒上 9:1-14.
扫罗因找不到父亲的驴，绝望中来见撒母耳。
1节. 一个大能的勇士. 即拥有大量财富和产业的人。这家族在便雅悯支派中地位崇高，因此扫罗的话当列入东方人惯用的故作谦卑的客套话之中。