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Ge 47:1-31.
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Ge 47:1-31.
JOSEPH'S PRESENTATION AT COURT.
1. Joseph . . . told Pharaoh, My father and my brethren--Joseph furnishes a beautiful example of a man who could bear equally well the extremes of prosperity and adversity. High as he was, he did not forget that he had a superior. Dearly as he loved his father and anxiously as he desired to provide for the whole family, he would not go into the arrangements he had planned for their stay in Goshen until he had obtained the sanction of his royal master.
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2. 他从众弟兄中挑出五个人来——大概是五个最年长的弟兄：因按年长为选择的原则最少招致嫉妒。
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2. he took some of his brethren--probably the five eldest brothers: seniority being the least invidious principle of selection.
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4. 我们来……寄居——君王的谈话果然顺着约瑟所预期的方向
(Ge 46:33)，
他们便照先前的指示回答——然而在他们定意要回迦南的决心上，显出一种信心和敬虔，这是一个有希望的征兆，表明他们全都或大多数已成为敬虔的人。
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4. For to sojourn . . . are we come--The royal conversation took the course which Joseph had anticipated
(Ge 46:33),
and they answered according to previous instructions--manifesting, however, in their determination to return to Canaan, a faith and piety which affords a hopeful symptom of their having become all, or most of them, religious men.
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7. 约瑟引他父亲雅各进来——这次觐见君王带着动人心弦、至为感人的意味；当雅各以神人所有的纯朴和庄严，在进见之时便为君王的头求神赐福，不难想象这情景会产生何等深刻的印象（参
Heb 7:7)。
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7. Joseph brought in Jacob his father--There is a pathetic and most affecting interest attending this interview with royalty; and when, with all the simplicity and dignified solemnity of a man of God, Jacob signalized his entrance by imploring the divine blessing on the royal head, it may easily be imagined what a striking impression the scene would produce (compare
Heb 7:7).
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8. 法老问雅各说，你平生的年日是多少呢？——这问题是因这位老列祖的外表在法老和他朝廷之人心中所引起的深切印象而发的。在埃及低洼之地，又因其社会的人为习俗，该国居民的寿数远比不上迦南那纯净爽快的气候和质朴山民中尚未达到的那么短。至少希伯来人仍享有延长的长寿。
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8. Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?--The question was put from the deep and impressive interest which the appearance of the old patriarch had created in the minds of Pharaoh and his court. In the low-lying land of Egypt and from the artificial habits of its society, the age of man was far shorter among the inhabitants of that country than it had yet become in the pure bracing climate and among the simple mountaineers of Canaan. The Hebrews, at least, still attained a protracted longevity.
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9. 我寄居在世的年日，等——虽有一百三十岁，他却以日来算（参
Ps 90:12)，
他称之为不多，因回顾起来如此；又称之为苦，因他的一生几乎是一连串不辍的烦恼。这回答考虑到列祖时代相对的黑暗（参
2Ti 1:10)，
颇值得注意。
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9. The days of the years of my pilgrimage, &c.--Though a hundred thirty years, he reckons by days (compare
Ps 90:12),
which he calls few, as they appeared in retrospect, and evil, because his life had been one almost unbroken series of trouble. The answer is remarkable, considering the comparative darkness of the patriarchal age (compare
2Ti 1:10).
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11. 约瑟使父亲和弟兄……住在那地……最好的地——即下埃及最好的牧场。歌珊，即“青绿之地”，沿尼罗河的伯鲁西或东支流。它包括赫利奥波利斯即“安”的辖区一部分，东边向沙漠延伸相当长的一段。这些边界内的地是一片富饶肥沃的天然草场，极适于希伯来牧民之用（参
Ge 49:24； Ps 34:10；78:72)。
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11. Joseph placed his father and his brethren . . . in the best of the land--best pasture land in lower Egypt. Goshen, "the land of verdure," lay along the Pelusiac or eastern branch of the Nile. It included a part of the district of Heliopolis, or "On," the capital, and on the east stretched out a considerable length into the desert. The ground included within these boundaries was a rich and fertile extent of natural meadow, and admirably adapted for the purposes of the Hebrew shepherds (compare
Ge 49:24; Ps 34:10; 78:72).
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13-15. 全地……没有粮食——这大概指饥荒的第二年
(Ge 45:6)，
当时个人或家庭的小量储藏都已用尽，众民已普遍依赖政府。起初他们付钱可得粮。不久银子便花尽了。
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13-15. there was no bread in all the land--This probably refers to the second year of the famine
(Ge 45:6)
when any little stores of individuals or families were exhausted and when the people had become universally dependent on the government. At first they obtained supplies for payment. Before long money failed.
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16. 约瑟说，把你们的牲畜给我——“这是为保全百姓和牲畜所能采取的最明智之举；牲畜既被约瑟买下，便由王家供给供养，饥荒结束时很可能会归回百姓，使他们能恢复农业劳作。”
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16. And Joseph said, Give your cattle--"This was the wisest course that could be adopted for the preservation both of the people and the cattle, which, being bought by Joseph, was supported at the royal expense, and very likely returned to the people at the end of the famine, to enable them to resume their agricultural labors."
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21. 至于百姓，约瑟叫他们从这一城搬到那一城——显然是为了方便乡间的百姓，他们原无所事事，便迁到设有粮仓的各城。
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21. as for the people, he removed them to cities--obviously for the convenience of the country people, who were doing nothing, to the cities where the corn stores were situated.
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22. 惟有祭司的地，约瑟没有买——这些地是不可转让的，是供养庙宇的封地。祭司们自己从国家领取年度粮食配给，当他们的土地无法耕种时扣留这配给，显然是极其残酷的。
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22. Only the land of the priests bought he not--These lands were inalienable, being endowments by which the temples were supported. The priests for themselves received an annual allowance of provision from the state, and it would evidently have been the height of cruelty to withhold that allowance when their lands were incapable of being tilled.
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23-28. 约瑟说，看哪，等等——地既已卖给官府
(Ge 47:19, 20)，
荒年之后头一季的种子将由官府分发；百姓将作为可随时退租的佃户耕种这些地，缴纳产物为租，与今日埃及所行几乎相同。
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23-28. Joseph said, Behold, &c.--The lands being sold to the government
(Ge 47:19, 20),
seed would be distributed for the first crop after the famine; and the people would occupy them as tenants-at-will on the payment of a produce rent, almost the same rule as obtains in Egypt in the present day.
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29-31. 以色列的死期临近了——他临终的安排只有一项被记载下来；但这唯一的一项却显出他的整个品格。那就是处理他的骸骨，要将骸骨运到迦南，这并非出于对故土的浪漫情感，也非像他现代的后裔那样出于对圣地的迷信，而是出于对应许的信心。他对约瑟说的话——"我若在你眼前蒙恩"，即以埃及宰相的身份——他要求他郑重起誓必成全他的心愿，以及那誓言的特殊形式，都明显地指向应许，并显明他渴望得享其福的强烈心愿（参
民 10:29）。
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29-31. the time drew nigh that Israel must die--One only of his dying arrangements is recorded; but that one reveals his whole character. It was the disposal of his remains, which were to be carried to Canaan, not from a mere romantic attachment to his native soil, nor, like his modern descendants, from a superstitious feeling for the soil of the Holy Land, but from faith in the promises. His address to Joseph--"if now I have found grace in thy sight," that is, as the vizier of Egypt--his exacting a solemn oath that his wishes would be fulfilled and the peculiar form of that oath, all pointed significantly to the promise and showed the intensity of his desire to enjoy its blessings (compare
Nu 10:29).
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31. 以色列在床头敬拜神——东方的床不过是席子，没有床头，所以应译作"杖头"，使徒也是如此翻译
(来 11:21)。
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31. Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head--Oriental beds are mere mats, having no head, and the translation should be "the top of his staff," as the apostle renders it
(Heb 11:21).
Ge 47:1-31.
约瑟在宫廷的引见。
1. 约瑟……告诉法老说，我的父亲和我的弟兄——约瑟提供了一个美好的榜样：一个人能同样从容地承受顺境与逆境的极端。他地位虽高，却不忘自己仍有一位在上者。他虽深爱父亲，又切愿为全家的生计作安排，但在未得他主人的核准之前，决不进行他为他们在歌珊定居所筹划的安排。