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Jud 16:1-3.
英文原文
Jud 16:1-3.
SAMSON CARRIES AWAY THE GATES OF GAZA.
1, 2. Gaza--now Guzzah, the capital of the largest of the five Philistine principal cities, about fifteen miles southwest of Ashkelon. The object of this visit to this city is not recorded, and unless he had gone in disguise, it was a perilous exposure of his life in one of the enemy's strongholds. It soon became known that he was there; and it was immediately resolved to secure him. But deeming themselves certain of their prey, the Gazites deferred the execution of their measure till the morning.
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3. 参孙……半夜起来，把城门的门扇——至今仍有一处残破的石堆被人指点为城门旧址。它大概是城墙的一部分，而这一废墟正「朝希伯仑方向」，所以这传说并非没有可能。
扛到希伯仑前的山顶上——那座山就是以勒蒙塔山；但这里的「希伯仑」是指「希伯仑群山」；因为参孙若从迦萨逃离之后日夜不停地跑，最快也要到次日傍晚才能望见希伯仑城。那时的迦萨城，离以勒蒙塔山大概不少于三刻钟的路程。在厚厚的沙土路上，肩扛那沉重的门扇与门闩爬到山顶，除了参孙，无人能成此事〔范德维尔德〕。
英文原文
3. Samson . . . arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city--A ruinous pile of masonry is still pointed out as the site of the gate. It was probably a part of the town wall, and as this ruin is "toward Hebron," there is no improbability in the tradition.
carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron--That hill is El-Montar; but by Hebron in this passage is meant "the mountains of Hebron"; for otherwise Samson, had he run night and day from the time of his flight from Gaza, could only have come on the evening of the following day within sight of the city of Hebron. The city of Gaza was, in those days, probably not less than three-quarters of an hour distant from El-Montar. To have climbed to the top of this hill with the ponderous doors and their bolts on his shoulders, through a road of thick sand, was a feat which none but a Samson could have accomplished [VAN DE VELDE].
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Jud 16:4-14.
Jud 16:4-14.
大利拉被非利士人收买。
4. 他爱梭烈谷的一个女子——这地方的位置不详，大利拉的为人也无法确定。她的住处、贪财的本性、以及无情的甜言蜜语，都叫人不得不信她是个放荡的女子。
英文原文
Jud 16:4-14.
DELILAH CORRUPTED BY THE PHILISTINES.
4. he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek--The location of this place is not known, nor can the character of Delilah be clearly ascertained. Her abode, her mercenary character, and her heartless blandishments afford too much reason to believe she was a profligate woman.
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5. 非利士人的首领——这五位首领认为，为要制服这个民族公敌，任何手段都不算卑屈。
你哄劝他，看他因何有这样大的力气——他们大概猜想他身上带着什么护身符，或掌握了某种重要的秘诀，才获得这般巨力；他们便收买大利拉——无疑以重金悬赏——要她替他们查出底细。她应承了这差事，作了多次尝试；趁他心软话多的时候，运用一切劝诱奉承之术，要套出他的秘密。
英文原文
5. the lords of the Philistines--The five rulers deemed no means beneath their dignity to overcome this national enemy.
Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth--They probably imagined that he carried some amulet about his person, or was in the possession of some important secret by which he had acquired such herculean strength; and they bribed Delilah, doubtless by a large reward, to discover it for them. She undertook the service and made several attempts, plying all her arts of persuasion or blandishment in his soft and communicative moods, to extract his secret.
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7. 参孙说……他们若用七条未干的青绳子捆绑我——葡萄藤蔓、柔韧的细枝，或生植物茎编成的绳索，至今仍为许多东方国家所使用。
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7. Samson said . . ., If they bind me with seven green withs--Vine tendrils, pliant twigs, or twists made of crude vegetable stalks are used in many Eastern countries for ropes at the present day.
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8. 她就用这些东西捆绑他——大概是带着嬉笑的态度，要试试他到底是说笑还是当真。
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8. she bound him with them--probably in a sportive manner, to try whether he was jesting or in earnest.
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9. 有人预先埋伏……在内室——希伯来文直译为「在屋内的内里」，即「屋中最隐密之处」。
英文原文
9. there were men lying in wait, abiding . . . in the chamber--The Hebrew, literally rendered, is, "in the inner," or "most secret part of the house."
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10. 大利拉说——为避免引起疑心，她必是隔了一段时间，才作下一次的尝试。
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10. And Delilah said--To avoid exciting suspicion, she must have allowed some time to elapse before making this renewed attempt.
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12. 新绳——并未说明是用什么材料；但从「未曾用过」一语看，大概是像前次那样的树枝所制。希伯来文表明它们是拧成的，粗而结实。
英文原文
12. new ropes--It is not said of what material they were formed; but from their being dried, it is probable they were of twigs, like the former. The Hebrew intimates that they were twisted, and of a thick, strong description.
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13. 你若把我头上的七条发绺与纬线同织——发绺即编成的辫子；参孙像东方许多人一样，喜欢把头发编成辫子。织布本是妇女的工作；大利拉的织机大概就在手边。那织机构造很简单：纬线不用筘，而是用一根木制的扁刀穿入经线。布的末端系在钉于墙或地上的钉子或桩上；大利拉蹲坐在织机前，参孙则伸开身体躺在地上，头枕在她的膝上——这在东方是很常见的姿势。
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13. If thou weavest the seven locks of my head--braids or tresses, into which, like many in the East, he chose to plait his hair. Working at the loom was a female employment; and Delilah's appears to have been close at hand. It was of a very simple construction; the woof was driven into the warp, not by a reed, but by a wooden spatula. The extremity of the web was fastened to a pin or stake fixed in the wall or ground; and while Delilah sat squatting at her loom, Samson lay stretched on the floor, with his head reclining on her lap--a position very common in the East.
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14. 把机上的橛子和纬线一并拔去——即整个织布机具。
英文原文
14. went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web--that is, the whole weaving apparatus.
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Jud 16:15-20.
Jud 16:15-20。
他被制服。
英文原文
Jud 16:15-20.
HE IS OVERCOME.
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16. 大利拉天天用话催逼他——这位卑鄙的女子虽屡屡失望、羞惭，却仍决意坚持；她深知他已被对她的情欲所彻底奴役，便以连绵不绝的甜言蜜语软硬兼施，终于套出了她垂涎的秘密。
英文原文
16. she pressed him daily with her words--Though disappointed and mortified, this vile woman resolved to persevere; and conscious how completely he was enslaved by his passion for her, she assailed him with a succession of blandishing arts, till she at length discovered the coveted secret.
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17. 若剃了我的头发，我的力气就离开我——他巨力并非来自头发，而是来自他作为拿细耳人与神之间的特殊关系。他不剃的头发，是他拿细耳人之愿的记号，也是神应许继续赐他超然力量的凭据。
英文原文
17. if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me--His herculean powers did not arise from his hair, but from his peculiar relation to God as a Nazarite. His unshorn locks were a sign of his Nazaritism, and a pledge on the part of God that his supernatural strength would be continued.
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19. 大利拉叫了一个人来，叫他剃去参孙头上的七条发绺——然而古时希伯来人剃头的程度是否如今日东方人那样彻底，尚不确定。所用之词有时与剪羊毛之词相同，因此所用器具可能只是剪刀。
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19. she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head--It is uncertain, however, whether the ancient Hebrews cut off the hair to the same extent as Orientals now. The word employed is sometimes the same as that for shearing sheep, and therefore the instrument might be only scissors.
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20. 他却不知道耶和华已经离开他了——这是何等令人痛心、何等可悲的景象！失去了神的感动，品格堕落，却因罪中之乐的迷惑，几乎不曾醒悟到自己坠落之境的悲惨！
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20. he wist not that the Lord was departed from him--What a humiliating and painful spectacle! Deprived of the divine influences, degraded in his character, and yet, through the infatuation of a guilty passion, scarcely awake to the wretchedness of his fallen condition!
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Jud 16:21, 22.
Jud 16:21、22。
非利士人拿住他，剜了他的眼睛。
21. 非利士人拿住他，剜了他的眼睛——东方素来对有地位名望的俘虏常施加这种残酷的剥夺。刑罚方式不一：挖出眼球、刺穿眼睛，或将烧红的铁器置于眼前毁其视力。他们又用铜（红铜）镣铐锁他——而非像别的俘虏那样用皮革——使他 doubly 难逃。
在监里推磨——用手工磨石推磨是仆婢之工，他们以此加诸于他，是最深的贬辱。
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Jud 16:21, 22.
THE PHILISTINES TOOK HIM AND PUT OUT HIS EYES.
21. the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes--To this cruel privation prisoners of rank and consequence have commonly been subjected in the East. The punishment is inflicted in various ways, by scooping out the eyeballs, by piercing the eye, or destroying the sight by holding a red-hot iron before the eyes. His security was made doubly sure by his being bound with fetters of brass (copper), not of leather, like other captives.
he did grind in the prison-house--This grinding with hand-millstones being the employment of menials, he was set to it as the deepest degradation.
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22. 然而他头上的头发渐渐长起来了——大概此时他已反省自己的愚妄；既成了真诚悔改之人，便重新立下拿细耳人之愿。「他的头发与他的悔改一同生长，他的力量与他的头发一同增长」〔贺尔主教〕。
英文原文
22. Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again--It is probable that he had now reflected on his folly; and becoming a sincere penitent, renewed his Nazarite vow. "His hair grew together with his repentance, and his strength with his hairs" [BISHOP HALL].
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Jud 16:23-25.
Jud 16:23-25。
他们向大衮献祭。
23. 非利士人的首领聚集，要向大衮神献大祭——异教国家在隆重的宗教节期回来之时，常将战俘从囚禁或奴役之处带出来；对他们百般凌辱，借此向帮助他们战胜仇敌的神明献上感恩的祭。大衮是海神，通常被描绘为头与上半身是人，下半身像鱼。
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Jud 16:23-25.
THEIR FEAST TO DAGON.
23. the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon--It was a common practice in heathen nations, on the return of their solemn religious festivals, to bring forth their war prisoners from their places of confinement or slavery; and, in heaping on them every species of indignity, they would offer their grateful tribute to the gods by whose aid they had triumphed over their enemies. Dagon was a sea idol, usually represented as having the head and upper parts human, while the rest of the body resembled a fish.
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Jud 16:26-31.
Jud 16:26-31。
他的离世。
英文原文
Jud 16:26-31.
HIS DEATH.
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27. 房顶上约有三千男女，观看参孙戏耍——这建筑似乎与罗马人那种宽敞的露天剧场相似，至今在东方许多国家仍可见到。它们全用木造。观众所站之处是架在两根柱子上的木地板，呈斜面上升，使人人都能看到中央的空地。中间有两根大梁，全结构的重量都压在其上；这两根大梁由两根几乎紧挨着的柱子支撑，所以这两根柱子一松动或移位，整座建筑便会塌下来。
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27. there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport--This building seems to have been similar to the spacious and open amphitheaters well known among the Romans and still found in many countries of the East. They are built wholly of wood. The standing place for the spectators is a wooden floor resting upon two pillars and rising on an inclined plane, so as to enable all to have a view of the area in the center. In the middle there are two large beams, on which the whole weight of the structure lies, and these beams are supported by two pillars placed almost close to each other, so that when these are unsettled or displaced, the whole pile must tumble to the ground.
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28. 参孙求告耶和华——他悔改祷告的心灵清楚表明，这蓄意之举并非出于报复性的自杀，他视自己是在行使民事官长的职分来运用他的力量。事实上，当视为他是为国捐躯。他的死并非他所设计或追求的，除非这是他这伟大作为无可避免的后果。他的祷告必是默默的呼求；既为史者所记下，便蒙了神的悦纳。
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28. Samson called unto the Lord--His penitent and prayerful spirit seems clearly to indicate that this meditated act was not that of a vindictive suicide, and that he regarded himself as putting forth his strength in his capacity of a public magistrate. He must be considered, in fact, as dying for his country's cause. His death was not designed or sought, except as it might be the inevitable consequence of his great effort. His prayer must have been a silent ejaculation, and, from its being revealed to the historian, approved and accepted of God.
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31. 参孙的弟兄和他父的全家都下来，抬上去葬了他——这场可怕的惨祸似乎使非利士人完全瘫痪，以致他们既未试图阻止参孙尸身的搬运，此后很长一段时间也未骚扰以色列人。这位以色列的英雄以其力量与勇气为国作了重大的贡献，历来被视为最伟大的勇士。但他受制于情欲、为情欲所奴役，与如此伟大的人物不相称，使我们对他的品格减了几分敬意。然而他仍被列于坚守对神之信心的古时伟人之列
（来11:32）。
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31. Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him--This awful catastrophe seems to have so completely paralyzed the Philistines, that they neither attempted to prevent the removal of Samson's corpse, nor to molest the Israelites for a long time after. Thus the Israelitish hero rendered by his strength and courage signal services to his country, and was always regarded as the greatest of its champions. But his slavish subjection to the domination of his passions was unworthy of so great a man and lessens our respect for his character. Yet he is ranked among the ancient worthies who maintained a firm faith in God
(Heb 11:32).
Jud 16:1-3.
参孙扛走迦萨的城门。
1、2. 迦萨——即今日的加沙，是非利士五大城邦中最大的一座的都城，位于亚实基伦西南约十五英里。他为何造访此城，并未记载；除非他是乔装前往，否则深入敌方要塞，实在性命堪忧。他在那里的消息很快传开；众人立刻决定要捉拿他。但迦萨人自以为猎物唾手可得，便将行动推延到早晨。