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Ge 19:1-38.
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Ge 19:1-38.
LOT'S ENTERTAINMENT.
1. there came two angels--most probably two of those that had been with Abraham, commissioned to execute the divine judgment against Sodom.
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom--In Eastern cities it is the market, the seat of justice, of social intercourse and amusement, especially a favorite lounge in the evenings, the arched roof affording a pleasant shade.
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2. 请你们转到……住一夜——这是与
Ge 18:2-8
所描述相同的慷慨款待的提议，这种款待如今在小镇上仍自发地实行。
他们说，不，我们要在街上过夜——在没有客栈又无相熟之人的地方，旅客裹着外衣睡在街上并不罕见。
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2. turn in, I pray you . . . tarry all night--offer of the same generous hospitalities as described in
Ge 18:2-8,
and which are still spontaneously practised in the small towns.
And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night--Where there are no inns and no acquaintance, it is not uncommon for travellers to sleep in the street wrapped up in their cloaks.
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3. 进了他的家——初迁到平原时，罗得原想住在帐棚里，与百姓分开
[Ge 13:12]。
但他逐渐被吸引，住在城中，他和他的家人与城里的人藉婚姻结了亲。
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3. entered into his house--On removing to the plain, Lot intended at first to live in his tent apart from the people
[Ge 13:12].
But he was gradually drawn in, dwelt in the city, and he and his family were connected with the citizens by marriage ties.
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4. 所多玛人……围住那房子——此处给出他们恶行的可怕证据。显然，恶交败坏了善行；否则罗得绝不会那样行事。
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4. men of Sodom, compassed the house--Appalling proofs are here given of their wickedness. It is evident that evil communications had corrupted good manners; otherwise Lot would never have acted as he did.
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12, 13. 你这里还有什么人吗？……我们要毁灭这地方——使徒的权威已宣告罗得是“义人”
(2Pe 2:8)，
他本质是好的，虽只满足于为所见之罪叹息，而不按自己的确信行事，将自己和家人从这样腐败的渊薮中撤出。但恩惠仍向他显明；甚至他那不敬虔的亲戚也因他的缘故得了拯救的提议，却被嗤笑拒绝
(2Pe 3:4)。
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12, 13. Hast thou here any besides? . . . we will destroy this place--Apostolic authority has declared Lot was "a righteous man"
(2Pe 2:8),
at bottom good, though he contented himself with lamenting the sins that he saw, instead of acting on his own convictions, and withdrawing himself and family from such a sink of corruption. But favor was shown him: and even his bad relatives had, for his sake, an offer of deliverance, which was ridiculed and spurned
(2Pe 3:4).
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15-17. 天使对保全罗得所怀的善意关怀，优美地显明出来。但他“迟延”。是因为将要失去多年所得的全部财产而忧伤？还是因为他仁慈的心因那可怕危机的念头而瘫痪？这是对那本可致命的迟延（若非天使友好的催促）所作的善意解释。
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15-17. The kindly interest the angels took in the preservation of Lot is beautifully displayed. But he "lingered." Was it from sorrow at the prospect of losing all his property, the acquisition of many years? Or was it that his benevolent heart was paralyzed by thoughts of the awful crisis? This is the charitable way of accounting for a delay that would have been fatal but for the friendly urgency of the angel.
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18, 19. 罗得说……我主啊，不要如此……我不能逃到山上去——这是何等奇特的信心和勇气的缺失，好像那位为他救援而干预的主，不能在山的孤寂中保护罗得一样。
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18, 19. Lot said . . . Oh, not so, my Lord . . . I cannot escape to the mountain--What a strange want of faith and fortitude, as if He who had interfered for his rescue would not have protected Lot in the mountain solitude.
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21. 看哪，我在这事上悦纳了你——他的请求蒙了应允，信心的祷告发生了功效；并且为使他从自己的经历中明白，立刻毫无保留地顺从神的指示原是最好最稳妥的。
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21. See, I have accepted thee concerning this . . . also--His request was granted him, the prayer of faith availed, and to convince him, from his own experience, that it would have been best and safest at once to follow implicitly the divine directions.
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22. 速速……因为我到那里以前不能作什么——所多玛的毁灭被暂缓，直到他安然抵达。神何等顾念祂的子民
(启 7:3)！
这显明神对一位虽软弱却善良的人所怀的爱，是何等大的明证！
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22. Haste . . . for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither--The ruin of Sodom was suspended till he was secure. What care God does take of His people
(Re 7:3)!
What a proof of the love which God bore to a good though weak man!
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24. 耶和华将……硫磺与火，从……天上降与——神在成就祂的旨意时，或是直接行事，或借着媒介间接行事；我们有充分理由相信，祂毁灭平原诸城所采用的是后者——事实上是借着火山爆发。从天上降下火与硫磺，与此完全相符，因为这些物质既被火山的力量抛入空中，便会以火雨的形式落在周围地区。这一看法似乎也得着约伯记的支持
[伯 1:16；18:15]。
至于这是神迹性的，还是神所运用的自然作为，并不重要：这是神圣的审判，是预先宣告并为惩罚那些罪大恶极之人而设的。
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24. Then the Lord rained . . . brimstone and fire from . . . heaven--God, in accomplishing His purposes, acts immediately or mediately through the agency of means; and there are strong grounds for believing that it was in the latter way He effected the overthrow of the cities of the plain--that it was, in fact, by a volcanic eruption. The raining down of fire and brimstone from heaven is perfectly accordant with this idea since those very substances, being raised into the air by the force of the volcano, would fall in a fiery shower on the surrounding region. This view seems countenanced by Job
[Job 1:16; 18:15].
Whether it was miraculously produced, or the natural operation employed by God, it is not of much consequence to determine: it was a divine judgment, foretold and designed for the punishment of those who were sinners exceedingly.
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26. 罗得由妻子和两个女儿陪同。但不知是出于不能抑制的好奇或心情的烦乱，还是因为她要回去抢救什么，他的妻子迟延了，便在这违背临别劝告——"不可回头看，在全平原上也不可站住"
[Ge 19:17]——
之时，被液态熔岩的洪流所吞没，成为她怠惰或罪恶鲁莽的牺牲品。
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26. Lot was accompanied by his wife and two daughters. But whether it was from irresistible curiosity or perturbation of feeling, or that she was about to return to save something, his wife lingered, and while thus disobeying the parting counsel, "to look not back, nor stay in all the plain"
[Ge 19:17],
the torrent of liquid lava enveloped her so that she became the victim of her supine indolence or sinful rashness.
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27. 亚伯拉罕清早起来，等等——亚伯拉罕此时在幔利，靠近希伯仑，去年一位旅行者证实了本段经文的真实性。"从可俯瞰希伯仑的高处——即先祖所站之地——观察者今日向死海方向望去，眼前展开一片广阔的视野。如今从希伯仑可看见平原上升起的烟云，因此在亚伯拉罕于神毁灭所多玛的早晨向所多玛观看时，他也必能看见"〔HACKETT〕。
那景象必然极其可畏，圣经也常常引用
(申 29:23； 赛 13:19； 犹 7)。
"如今被盐海或死海所覆盖的平原，在湖的南北两端底部高度的巨大差异上——后者为十三英尺，前者为一千三百英尺——表明南端是近期形成的，是在那些城邑倾覆之时被淹没的"〔LYNCH〕。
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27. Abraham gat up early in the morning, &c.--Abraham was at this time in Mamre, near Hebron, and a traveller last year verified the truth of this passage. "From the height which overlooks Hebron, where the patriarch stood, the observer at the present day has an extensive view spread out before him towards the Dead Sea. A cloud of smoke rising from the plain would be visible to a person at Hebron now, and could have been, therefore, to Abraham as he looked toward Sodom on the morning of its destruction by God" [HACKETT]. It must have been an awful sight, and is frequently alluded to in Scripture
(De 29:23; Isa 13:19; Jude 7).
"The plain which is now covered by the Salt or Dead Sea shows in the great difference of level between the bottoms of the northern and southern ends of the lake--the latter being thirteen feet and the former thirteen hundred--that the southern end was of recent formation, and submerged at the time of the fall of the cities" [LYNCH].
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29. 神毁灭平原诸城的时候，等等——这段话在如此痛苦的叙述之后尤为可喜、有益。它表明神若对恶人是"烈火"
[申 4:24； 来 12:29]，
祂却是义人的朋友。祂"记念"了亚伯拉罕的代求，我们既知此，祂也必记念那比亚伯拉罕更大者为我们所作的代求，这应当给我们何等的信心。
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29. when God destroyed the cities, &c.--This is most welcome and instructive after so painful a narrative. It shows if God is a "consuming fire" to the wicked
[De 4:24; Heb 12:29],
He is the friend of the righteous. He "remembered" the intercessions of Abraham, and what confidence should not this give us that He will remember the intercessions of a greater than Abraham in our behalf.
Ge 19:1-38.
罗得的接待。
1. 那两个天使——很可能是曾与亚伯拉罕同在的那两位中的两个，奉差遣执行神对所多玛的审判。
罗得坐在所多玛的城门口——在东方城市中，城门口是集市、审判席、社交和娱乐的场所，傍晚时分尤其是一个人们喜爱逗留的地方，因为那里的拱顶提供了一个宜人的荫凉。