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Ge 5:1-32.
英文原文
Ge 5:1-32.
GENEALOGY OF THE PATRIARCHS.
1. book of the generations--(See
Ge 11:4).
Adam--used here either as the name of the first man, or of the human race generally.
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5. 亚当……活……所有的日子——这份名录中最显著的特点，便是亚当及其直系后裔的长寿。十代
(Ge 5:5-32)
直系的，寿命都远超我们常见的通常界限——最短三百六十五岁
[Ge 5:23]，
最长九百六十九岁
[Ge 5:27]。
有无何种次要原因促成了这延寿——强健的体格、饮食的性质、气候的温度与卫生；或最后——因这名录只列真敬拜神的人——他们的高寿是否因较好地约束情欲并过着安静平稳的生活。这些方面既不能得满意的证据，明智之举是将这事实归诸神的主权旨意。然而我们能追溯它在神早期治理中所服务的若干重要用途。它是保存关于神、关于宗教大真理之知识，以及真正敬虔之影响的主要手段。这样，他们的知识既是由传统而来，他们便处于能以最纯洁的方式保存这知识的地位。
英文原文
5. all the days . . . Adam lived--The most striking feature in this catalogue is the longevity of Adam and his immediate descendants. Ten are enumerated
(Ge 5:5-32)
in direct succession whose lives far exceed the ordinary limits with which we are familiar--the shortest being three hundred sixty-five,
[Ge 5:23]
and the longest nine hundred sixty-nine years
[Ge 5:27].
It is useless to inquire whether and what secondary causes may have contributed to this protracted longevity--vigorous constitutions, the nature of their diet, the temperature and salubrity of the climate; or, finally--as this list comprises only the true worshippers of God--whether their great age might be owing to the better government of their passions and the quiet, even tenor of their lives. Since we cannot obtain satisfactory evidence on these points, it is wise to resolve the fact into the sovereign will of God. We can, however, trace some of the important uses to which, in the early economy of Providence, it was subservient. It was the chief means of reserving a knowledge of God, of the great truths of religion, as well as the influence of genuine piety. So that, as their knowledge was obtained by tradition, they would be in a condition to preserve it in the greatest purity.
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21. 以诺……生玛土撒拉——这个名字的意思是"他死了，便有差遣发出"，因此以诺以此为名，预言了洪水。据推算，玛土撒拉正是在那场灾祸之年去世的。
英文原文
21. Enoch . . . begat Methuselah--This name signifies, "He dieth, and the sending forth," so that Enoch gave it as prophetical of the flood. It is computed that Methuselah died in the year of that catastrophe.
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24. 以诺与神同行——这是东方各国常用的成语，表示常常亲密的相交。
神将他取去——在
来 11:5，
我们得知他被迁到天上——这是一个伟大的神迹，要在一个几乎普遍不信的世代中，达到寻常教导所不能成就的目的，向他们具体证明他所教导的道理
(犹 14, 15)
是真的，并且他在反对之中专心于神和义的事业，是大大蒙神喜悦的。
英文原文
24. And Enoch walked with God--a common phrase in Eastern countries denoting constant and familiar intercourse.
was not; for God took him--In
Heb 11:5,
we are informed that he was translated to heaven--a mighty miracle, designed to effect what ordinary means of instruction had failed to accomplish, gave a palpable proof to an age of almost universal unbelief that the doctrines which he had taught
(Jude 14, 15)
were true and that his devotedness to the cause of God and righteousness in the midst of opposition was highly pleasing to the mind of God.
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26. 拉麦——与前章所提之人不同
[Ge 4:18]。
然而他如同与他同名的那位，也在挪亚出生之际用诗体说话——挪亚即"安息"或"安慰"之意
[Ge 5:29 边注]。
"这里所暗示的，无疑是堕落在地上劳苦和受苦中的刑罚后果，以及对赐给夏娃之应许所激发的拯救者之盼望。我们从这事所受的重视和表达的自信，推断这期望是建立在神的启示之上"〔PETER SMITH〕。
英文原文
26. Lamech--a different person from the one mentioned in the preceding chapter
[Ge 4:18].
Like his namesake, however, he also spoke in numbers on occasion of the birth of Noah--that is, "rest" or "comfort"
[Ge 5:29,
Margin].
"The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the penal consequences of the fall in earthly toils and sufferings, and to the hope of a Deliverer, excited by the promise made to Eve. That this expectation was founded on a divine communication we infer from the importance attached to it and the confidence of its expression" [PETER SMITH].
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32. 挪亚五百岁了，就……生了——他和其余先祖在生子之前年纪老迈，这难处大概可由下列情况解释：摩西在此所记的并非他们的长子，只记从亚当经塞特到亚伯拉罕的世系。
英文原文
32. Noah was five hundred years old: and . . . begat--That he and the other patriarchs were advanced in life before children were born to them is a difficulty accounted for probably from the circumstance that Moses does not here record their first-born sons, but only the succession from Adam through Seth to Abraham.
Ge 5:1-32.
列祖的家谱。
1. 后代的家谱——（见
Ge 11:4）。
亚当——此处或用作第一人亚当的名字，或指整个人类。