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Jer 45:1-5.
英文原文
Jer 45:1-5.
JEREMIAH COMFORTS BARUCH.
After the completion of the prophecies and histories appertaining to the Jewish people and kings, Jeremiah subjoins one referring to an individual, Baruch; even as there are subjoined to the epistles of Paul addressed to churches, epistles to individuals, some of which were prior in date to the former. Afterwards follow the prophecies referring to other nations, closing the book [GROTIUS]. The date of the events here told is eighteen years before the taking of the city; this chapter in point of time follows the thirty-sixth chapter. Baruch seems to have been regularly employed by Jeremiah to commit his prophecies to writing
(Jer 36:1, 4, 32).
1. these words--his prophecies from the thirteenth year of Josiah to the fourth of Jehoiakim.
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3. 你曾说，等等——耶利米并不放过他的门徒，而是揭出他的过错，即因他在同胞眼中招致疑忌而怕丧命（比较
Jer 36:17），
仿佛他同情迦勒底人
(Jer 43:3)，
又像是耶利米的煽动者；此外还有他的忘恩，竟谈及自己的"痛苦"等等，而他本该认为能被神使用来记录耶利米的预言是极大的福分。
使……逃脱——指我从第一次写卷时的危险中获救
(Jer 36:26)。
如今我又陷入同样的危险。他责怪神待他太苛刻。
我疲倦——更当译作"我困倦了"。
不得安息——没有安宁的栖身之处。
英文原文
3. Thou didst say, &c.--Jeremiah does not spare his disciple, but unveils his fault, namely, fear for his life by reason of the suspicions which he incurred in the eyes of his countrymen (compare
Jer 36:17),
as if he was in sympathy with the Chaldeans
(Jer 43:3),
and instigator of Jeremiah; also ingratitude in speaking of his "grief," &c., whereas he ought to deem himself highly blessed in being employed by God to record Jeremiah's prophecies.
added--rescued from the peril of my first writing
(Jer 36:26).
I am again involved in a similar peril. He upbraids God as dealing harshly with him.
I fainted--rather, "I am weary."
no rest--no quiet resting-place.
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4. 我所建立的……我栽种的，我必拔出——
(Isa 5:5)。
我以如此非凡的看顾和恩惠所建立、栽种的这整个民族（犹太人），我必倾覆。
英文原文
4. that which I have built . . . planted I will pluck up--
(Isa 5:5).
This whole nation (the Jews) which I founded and planted with such extraordinary care and favor, I will overthrow.
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5. 你为自己图谋大事——你过于挑剔，又自私自利。当我自己的子民——"整个"民族
(Jer 45:4)，
以及圣殿都正被交于毁灭之时，你还指望自己能免受一切艰难吗？巴录在这世上期望过高，这使得他的苦难更难忍受。我们若不那么热切地贪求世人的笑脸，世人的冷眼也就不会搅扰我们。在这凡事都微小、无一确定的地方，为自己图谋大事，何等愚昧！
凡有血气的——整个犹太民族，甚至外邦人
(Jer 25:26)。
你的命……当作掠物——在这样普遍的危机中，你的性命得以保全，便当以为足。要以这免于死亡的性命之恩为足，正如当一切都交于掠夺时，若有人带着什么逃脱，他便有所得救作为他的"掠物"
(Jer 21:9)。
值得注意的是，耶利米自己曾用过这样的抱怨之言，如今却能向陷入同样罪中的巴录提供所需的劝戒
(Jer 12:1-5; 15:10-18)。
这是神允许祂仆人受试探的旨意之一部分：他们的试探能使他们适合在被试炼时服事同作仆人的。
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英文原文
5. seekest thou great things for thyself--Thou art over-fastidious and self-seeking. When My own peculiar people, a "whole" nation
(Jer 45:4),
and the temple, are being given to ruin, dost thou expect to be exempt from all hardship? Baruch had raised his expectations too high in this world, and this made his distresses harder to be borne. The frowns of the world would not disquiet us if we did not so eagerly covet its smiles. What folly to seek great things for ourselves here, where everything is little, and nothing certain!
all flesh--the whole Jewish nation and even foreign peoples
(Jer 25:26).
but thy life . . . for a prey--Esteem it enough at such a general crisis that thy life shall be granted thee. Be content with this boon of life which I will rescue from imminent death, even as when all things are given up to plunder, if one escape with aught, he has a something saved as his "prey"
(Jer 21:9).
It is striking how Jeremiah, who once used such complaining language himself, is enabled now to minister the counsel requisite for Baruch when falling into the same sin
(Jer 12:1-5; 15:10-18).
This is part of God's design in suffering His servants to be tempted, that their temptations may adapt them for ministering to their fellow servants when tempted.
耶 45:1-5。
耶利米安慰巴录。
在关乎犹太百姓和列王的预言与史事写完之后，耶利米附加了一段关于个人——巴录——的话；正如保罗写给教会的书信之后，也附加了写给个人的书信，其中有些在日期上早于前者。此后便是关于列国的预言，作为本书的结束[格老修斯（GROTIUS）]。此处所述之事的日期，比耶路撒冷被攻取早十八年；就年代而言，本章接在第三十六章之后。看来耶利米常委托巴录将他的预言笔录下来
(耶 36:1, 4, 32)。
1. 这些话——即他从约西亚第十三年起到约雅敬第四年止的预言。