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Ge 20:1-18.
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Ge 20:1-18.
ABRAHAM'S DENIAL OF HIS WIFE.
1. Abraham journeyed from thence . . . and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur--Leaving the encampment, he migrated to the southern border of Canaan. In the neighborhood of Gerar was a very rich and well-watered pasture land.
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2. 亚伯拉罕提到他的妻子撒拉，说，她是我的妹子——对所在之民的惧怕，引诱他含糊其辞。他的行为极当受责。那是欺瞒，是蓄意且预谋的——他并未受到突然的压力——这是第二次犯同样的罪
[见
Ge 12:13]
批注——这是对神的不信，各方面都令人惊奇，且可能在周围的异教徒中产生不良影响。其恶果不久便显露出来。
亚比米勒（父王）……差人把撒拉取了去——作他的妻子之一，是东方君王所主张的一种特权，已如前述（见
Ge 12:15
批注）。
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2. Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister--Fear of the people among whom he was, tempted him to equivocate. His conduct was highly culpable. It was deceit, deliberate and premeditated--there was no sudden pressure upon him--it was the second offense of the kind [see on
Ge 12:13]
--it was a distrust of God every way surprising, and it was calculated to produce injurious effects on the heathen around. Its mischievous tendency was not long in being developed.
Abimelech (father-king) . . . sent and took Sarah--to be one of his wives, in the exercise of a privilege claimed by Eastern sovereigns, already explained (see on
Ge 12:15).
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3. 但神在梦中对亚比米勒说——早期常以梦作为传达重要真理的媒介；为保全撒拉，神也采用了这方法。
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3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream--In early times a dream was often made the medium of communicating important truths; and this method was adopted for the preservation of Sarah.
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9. 亚比米勒召了亚伯拉罕来，对他说……你作了什么事呢？——这位列祖如今处于何等可羞的境地——他这位真神的仆人，竟受异教君王的责备。谁不愿意处在亚比米勒的地位，而不愿意处在这位受人尊敬却可悲地犯罪的列祖的地位呢！这位王的态度何等尊严——平静公正地责备列祖的罪，却尊重他本人，并以丰厚的礼物厚加馈赠，如同把炭火堆在他的头上。
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9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said . . . What hast thou done?--In what a humiliating plight does the patriarch now appear--he, a servant of the true God, rebuked by a heathen prince. Who would not rather be in the place of Abimelech than of the honored but sadly offending patriarch! What a dignified attitude is that of the king--calmly and justly reproving the sin of the patriarch, but respecting his person and heaping coals of fire on his head by the liberal presents made to him.
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11. 亚伯拉罕说……我心里想，这地方总不怕神——从所多玛可怕的恶行，他似乎得了印象，以为迦南其他诸城也都同样败坏。这里也许很少有或没有敬畏神的人，但当属世的人比真敬拜者表现出更高的荣誉感和对罪行更深的厌恶时，那是何等可悲！
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11. And Abraham said . . . I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place--From the horrible vices of Sodom he seems to have taken up the impression that all other cities of Canaan were equally corrupt. There might have been few or none who feared God, but what a sad thing when men of the world show a higher sense of honor and a greater abhorrence of crimes than a true worshipper!
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12. 她实在是我的妹子——（见
Ge 11:31
批注）。亚伯拉罕所作的辩护何等可怜。这话使他免受直接而绝对说谎的指控，但他仍说了道德上的不实话，因为其中含着欺骗的意图（参
Ge 12:11-13)。
“诚实总是上策。”亚伯拉罕的生命没有这欺诈也会同样得保；而这欺诈所可避免的，是何等的自羞、何等对神的不信、何等对信仰的羞辱！“各人与邻舍说实话”
[Zec 8:16； Eph 4:25]。
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12. yet indeed she is my sister--(See on
Ge 11:31).
What a poor defense Abraham made. The statement absolved him from the charge of direct and absolute falsehood, but he had told a moral untruth because there was an intention to deceive (compare
Ge 12:11-13).
"Honesty is always the best policy." Abraham's life would have been as well protected without the fraud as with it: and what shame to himself, what distrust to God, what dishonor to religion might have been prevented! "Let us speak truth every man to his neighbor"
[Zec 8:16; Eph 4:25].
Ge 20:1-18.
亚伯拉罕否认妻子。
1. 亚伯拉罕从那里前行……寄居在加低斯和书珥中间——他离开营帐，迁往迦南的南界。基拉耳附近有一片极富饶、灌溉良好的牧场。