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Joh 9:1-41.
英文原文
Joh 9:1-41.
THE OPENING OF THE EYES OF ONE BORN BLIND, AND WHAT FOLLOWED ON IT.
1-5. as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from birth--and who "sat begging"
(Joh 9:8).
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2. 是谁犯了罪，是这个人呢，是他的父母呢，叫他生来瞎眼——不是指在前世中，因为关于恶人，犹太人并不相信有前世；而是可能松散地表达说，某处的罪 surely 是这场灾祸的原因。
英文原文
2. who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind--not in a former state of existence, in which, as respects the wicked, the Jews did not believe; but, perhaps, expressing loosely that sin somewhere had surely been the cause of this calamity.
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3. 也不是这人等等——原因既不在于他本人，也不在于他父母，而是为了在他的医治中彰显「神的作为」。
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3. Neither . . . this man, &c.--The cause was neither in himself nor his parents, but, in order to the manifestation of "the works of God," in his cure.
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4. 我必须作那差我来者的工等等——从基督口中说出的一句话，非常有趣；表明：(1) 他在地上有精确的工作要做，其中每一个细节都为他安排布置好；(2) 他在地上所行的一切，不过是「神的工」——特别是「行善」，虽然并非 exclusively 借着神迹；(3) 每一项工都有其精确的时间和地点在他教导的计划中（可以说）；因此，(4) 正如他工作的时期有明确的终止，所以若让任何一项服事错过了它所指定的时间，整个计划就会被搅乱、破坏，并被推到它命定完成的时期之外；(5) 他总是作为人在这些考虑的冲动之下行动——「黑夜将到，没有人（或说「没有人能」）作工。」这里给别人留下了何等的功课，从这样的榜样得到了何等的鼓励！
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4. I must work the works of him that sent me, &c.--a most interesting statement from the mouth of Christ; intimating, (1) that He had a precise work to do upon earth, with every particular of it arranged and laid out to Him; (2) that all He did upon earth was just "the works of God"--particularly "going about doing good," though not exclusively by miracles; (3) that each work had its precise time and place in His programme of instructions, so to speak; hence, (4) that as His period for work had definite termination, so by letting any one service pass by its allotted time, the whole would be disarranged, marred, and driven beyond its destined period for completion; (5) that He acted ever under the impulse of these considerations, as man--"the night cometh when no man (or no one) can work." What lessons are here for others, and what encouragement from such Example!
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5. 我在世上的时候，是世上的光——并不是说在那之后他就不再是世上的光；而是他在地上事奉持续期间，必须借着彰显他的荣耀，对他的忠诚作出完全的证明。「正如在叫拉撒路复活之前
(Joh 11:25)，
他宣告自己是复活与生命，照样现在他把自己呈现为原型的属灵之光的源头，而即将要赐予的自然的光，不过是它的派生与记号」[阿尔福德]。
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5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world--not as if He would cease, after that, to be so; but that He must make full proof of His fidelity while His earthly career lasted by displaying His glory. "As before the raising of Lazarus
(Joh 11:25),
He announces Himself as the Resurrection and the Life, so now He sets Himself forth as the source of the archetypal spiritual light, of which the natural, now about to be conferred, is only a derivation and symbol" [ALFORD].
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6, 7. 他吐唾沫在地上，用唾沫和泥……抹在瞎子的眼睛上——这些操作就其性质而言，并不像表面上看那么不相称，虽然想象它们在丝毫程度上有助于随之而来的效果是荒谬的。（见
Mr 6:13
以及见
Joh 7:33。）
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6, 7. he spat on the ground, and made clay . . . and he anointed the eyes of the blind man--These operations were not so incongruous in their nature as might appear, though it were absurd to imagine that they contributed in the least degree to the effect which followed. (See
Mr 6:13
and see on
Joh 7:33.)
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7. 你去在西罗亚池子里洗……奉差遣等等——（见
2Ki 5:10, 14）。
因为所规定的行动在其设计中纯粹是象征性的，所以福音书作者在与它的关联中注意到这池子的象征性名字，因为在这个情形里它为那被差遣来作它所象征之事的那位作见证。（见
Isa 8:6，
那里这同一个池子被比喻性地用来表示「使神的城欢喜的河水」，这些水虽然卑微，却表明一位与以色列同在的神。）
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7. Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, . . . Sent, &c.--(See
2Ki 5:10, 14).
As the prescribed action was purely symbolical in its design, so in connection with it the Evangelist notices the symbolical name of the pool as in this case bearing testimony to him who was sent to do what it only symbolized. (See
Isa 8:6,
where this same pool is used figuratively to denote "the streams that make glad the city of God," and which, humble though they be, betoken a present God of Israel.)
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8-15. 邻舍们……说，这不是那从前坐着讨饭的人吗——这里有一些细节，用以认出新近能看见的那位与长久为人所知的瞎眼乞丐是同一人。
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8-15. The neighbours therefore . . . said, Is not this he that sat and begged--Here are a number of details to identify the newly seeing with the long-known blind beggar.
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13. 他们把从前瞎眼的人带到法利赛人那里——他们大概正坐在议会中，且多半属于那个教派
(Joh 7:47, 48)。
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13. They brought to the Pharisees--sitting probably in council, and chiefly of that sect
(Joh 7:47, 48).
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16, 17. 这个人不是从神来的等等——（见
Joh 5:9；
Joh 5:16）。
又有人等等——如尼哥底母和约瑟。
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16, 17. This man is not of God, &c.--(See on
Joh 5:9;
Joh 5:16).
Others said, &c.--such as Nicodemus and Joseph.
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17. 瞎子……说，他是个先知——正确地把这神迹视为他先知职任之「记号」。
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17. the blind man . . . said, He is a prophet--rightly viewing the miracle as but a "sign" of His prophetic commission.
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18-23. 犹太人不信……他是生来瞎眼的……等到他们把那看见之人的父母叫了来——被年轻人自己的见证挫败，他们希望借着对他的父母仔细盘问，对事实提出怀疑；那对父母察觉所设的网罗，巧妙地借只见证他们儿子的身份和他生来瞎眼的事实而逃避，把治愈的事留给他自己——一位有资格的见证人——去说。然而，他们说自己「不知道是谁开了他的眼睛」时，是在搪塞，因为他们「怕犹太人」——犹太人已经达成一致（大概在
Joh 7:50
所记之事之后；但到此时已是众所周知），凡承认他是基督的，就要被赶出会堂——即，不仅是被排除，更是被逐出教会。
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18-23. the Jews did not believe . . . he had been born blind . . . till they called the parents of him that had received his sight--Foiled by the testimony of the young man himself, they hope to throw doubt on the fact by close questioning his parents, who, perceiving the snare laid for them, ingeniously escape it by testifying simply to the identity of their son, and his birth-blindness, leaving it to himself, as a competent witness, to speak as to the cure. They prevaricated, however, in saying they "knew not who had opened his eyes," for "they feared the Jews," who had come to an understanding (probably after what is recorded,
Joh 7:50,
&c.; but by this time well known), that whoever owned Him as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue--that is, not simply excluded, but excommunicated.
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24-34. 你该将荣耀归给神，我们知道这个人是个罪人——他们不是要他承认神迹是行在他身上的（哪怕以此归荣耀给神），而是要他更多地顾念神的尊荣，不要把这样的事归给一个罪人。
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24-34. Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner--not wishing him to own, even to the praise of God, that a miracle had been wrought upon him, but to show more regard to the honor of God than ascribe any such act to one who was a sinner.
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25. 他回答说：他是个罪人——不是，我不晓得——这人并非要在自己心里暗示对「他是罪人」这一点有任何怀疑，而是他在这一点上的意见对别人无足轻重，他只愿说他自己亲身经历中所知道的事实。
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25. He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, &c.--Not that the man meant to insinuate any doubt in his own mind on the point of His being "a sinner," but as his opinion on such a point would be of no consequence to others, he would speak only to what he knew as fact in his own case.
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*26. 他们……又对他说：他向你作了什么？*等等——希望借反复的盘问使他入圈套，但这年轻人远胜过他们。
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26. Then said they . . . again, What did he to thee? &c.--hoping by repeated questions to ensnare him, but the youth is more than a match for them.
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27. 我方才告诉你们……你们也要作他的门徒吗？——他用一种尖锐的讥讽口吻，把他们的提问当作焦虑的慕道者、几乎预备好要作门徒之人的提问来对待！他们被这话刺痛，反过来把他当作那门徒来反驳（此处他们显然并不全错）；至于他们自己，他们退回到摩西那里——关于他，毫无疑义；但谁知道这个暴发户是谁？
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27. I have told you already . . . will ye also be his disciples?--In a vein of keen irony he treats their questions as those of anxious inquirers, almost ready for discipleship! Stung by this, they retort upon him as the disciple (and here they plainly were not wrong); for themselves, they fall back upon Moses; about him there could be no doubt; but who knew about this upstart?
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30. 那人回答说：他开了我的眼睛，你们竟不知道他从哪里来，这真是奇事——他无需再说一个字；但在为他的恩人辩护上越发大胆，而他的眼光也因这勇气本身所要求的而越发明亮，他质问他们：怎能装作不能分辨一个开了生来瞎子之眼的人是「出于神」还是「罪人」——是从上头还是从下头——并进而以非凡的能力辩论这案件。他的论证如此无可抗拒，以至于他们的怒气爆发成一句十足的法利赛人话：「你全然生在罪中，还敢教训我们吗？」——你这出身卑贱、未受教育、不知天高地厚的年轻人，竟敢教训我们——我们这些受过训练的、被设立的、公认的、在神之事上百姓的引导者！可耻！
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30. The man answered, Herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes--He had no need to say another word; but waxing bolder in defense of his Benefactor, and his views brightening by the very courage which it demanded, he puts it to them how they could pretend inability to tell whether one who opened the eyes of a man born blind was "of God" or "a sinner"--from above or from beneath--and proceeds to argue the case with remarkable power. So irresistible was his argument that their rage burst forth in a speech of intense Pharisaism, "Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us?"--thou, a base-born, uneducated, impudent youth, teach us, the trained, constituted, recognized guides of the people in the things of God! Out upon thee!
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31. 他们就把他赶出去了——无疑是按司法程序，也事实上如此。提到他「生在罪中」，似乎默认了他生来瞎眼——正是他们一直极不愿承认的事。但狂怒与对真理的敌意，在爆发之时很少是一致的。这被赶出教门的年轻人周围拥挤的朋友，带着同情而来，大概会表示惊奇：能行这样医治的一位，竟不能保护他的病人免受那医治所惹起的逼迫，或竟有能力却不用。这样的念头若也在这年轻人心中浮现，也不奇怪。但若真如此，从接下来的事可以确定，它们并未在他心中停留，因为他知道「他从前瞎眼，如今能看见了」，并且他相信若他的恩人「不是出于神，他就不能作什么」
(Joh 9:33)。
对他也有一个词——若从神的圣言中在他耳边低语——似乎正是为描述他的处境、预备他迎接与那恩慈的朋友即将来临的会面。「耶和华如此说：你们因我的话语战兢的人，当听耶和华的话。*你们的弟兄，就是恨恶你们、因我的名赶出你们的人，曾说：愿耶和华得荣耀；但他要向你们显现，叫你们喜乐，*他们却要蒙羞」
(Isa 66:5)。
但那受了如此高贵见证、为之受了如此逼迫的他，此刻在做什么？或许在隐密处「大声哀哭、流泪」地诵念预言诗篇的话：「耶和华万军之神啊，求你不要叫等候你的人因我羞愧；求你不要叫寻求你的人因我蒙羞；以色列的神啊，因我为你的缘故受了辱骂……因为辱骂你的人的辱骂都落在我身上」
(Ps 69:6, 7, 9)。
英文原文
31. they cast him out--judicially, no doubt, as well in fact. The allusion to his being "born in sins" seems a tacit admission of his being blind from birth--the very thing they had been so unwilling to own. But rage and enmity to truth are seldom consistent in their outbreaks. The friends of this excommunicated youth, crowding around him with their sympathy, would probably express surprise that One who could work such a cure should be unable to protect his patient from the persecution it had raised against him, or should possess the power without using it. Nor would it be strange if such thoughts should arise in the youth's own mind. But if they did, it is certain, from what follows, that they made no lodgment there, conscious as he was that "whereas he was blind, now he saw," and satisfied that if his Benefactor "were not of God, He could do nothing"
(Joh 9:33).
There was a word for him too, which, if whispered in his ear from the oracles of God, would seem expressly designed to describe his case, and prepare him for the coming interview with his gracious Friend. "Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His word. Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified; BUT HE SHALL APPEAR TO YOUR JOY, and they shall be ashamed"
(Isa 66:5).
But how was He engaged to whom such noble testimony had been given, and for whom such persecution had been borne? Uttering, perhaps, in secret, "with strong crying and tears," the words of the prophetic psalm, "Let not them that wait on Thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake; let none that seek Thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel; because for Thy sake I have borne reproach . . . and the reproaches of them that reproached Thee are fallen upon me"
(Ps 69:6, 7, 9).
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35-38. 耶稣听见——即借人带给他的消息。
他们把他赶出去了；后来遇见他——是偶然遇见吗？不太可能。那样的胸怀所存的同情，不能长久远离它的对象。
就对他说：你信神的儿子吗？——这是一个刻意超出他目前程度的问题，为要更快地把他——在他如今受教的心境中——引入最高的真理。
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35-38. Jesus heard--that is, by intelligence brought Him.
that they had cast him out; and when he had found him--by accident? Not very likely. Sympathy in that breast could not long keep aloof from its object.
he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?--A question stretching purposely beyond his present attainments, in order the more quickly to lead him--in his present teachable frame--into the highest truth.
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36. 他回答说：主啊，他是谁？告诉我，好叫我信他——「他的回答是肯定的，并因预期而信，应许一俟耶稣说他就是那位，便信」[施蒂尔]。
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36. He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?--"His reply is affirmative, and believing by anticipation, promising faith as soon as Jesus shall say who He is" [STIER].
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37. 耶稣对他说：你已经看见他——那新的视觉官能在那一刻达到最高的运用，凝视着「世界的光」。
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37. Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him--the new sense of sight having at that moment its highest exercise, in gazing upon "the Light of the world."
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38. 他说：主啊，我信。就拜耶稣——这信与这敬拜，无疑是意在表达远超过他对任何属人的「先知」
(Joh 9:17)
所认为合宜的——大概是至高的信与崇拜那未经思索、不可抗拒的表达，虽然并不完全明白其中所含的意义。
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38. he said, Lord, I believe: and he worshipped him--a faith and a worship, beyond doubt, meant to express far more than he would think proper to any human "prophet"
(Joh 9:17)
--the unstudied, resistless expression, probably of SUPREME faith and adoration, though without the full understanding of what that implied.
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39-41. 耶稣说——也许在同一时候，但在一群人——包括一些怀疑讥诮的首领——看见耶稣与那得医治的年轻人交谈、便急忙赶到那地点之后。
叫不能看见的可以看见等等——升到那视觉上——而赋予那年轻人的自然视觉不过是其象征。（见
Joh 9:5，
并比较
Lu 4:18）。
叫能看见的，反瞎了眼——在审判上无能于领会并接受他们所故意闭眼不见的真理。
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39-41. Jesus said--perhaps at the same time, but after a crowd, including some of the skeptical and scornful rulers, had, on seeing Jesus talking with the healed youth, hastened to the spot.
that they which see not might see, &c.--rising to that sight of which the natural vision communicated to the youth was but the symbol. (See on
Joh 9:5,
and compare
Lu 4:18).
that they which see might be made blind--judicially incapable of apprehending and receiving the truth, to which they have wilfully shut their eyes.
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40. 难道我们也瞎了眼吗？——我们这些在属灵事上被设立、被承认的百姓的引导者吗？这问题出于骄傲与怒气。
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40. Are we blind also?--We, the constituted, recognized guides of the people in spiritual things? pride and rage prompting the question.
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41. 你们若瞎了眼——缺乏亮光来辨识我的声称，并且只等候接受它。
就没有罪了——没有那把亮光关在门外的罪。
你们说：我们能看见；所以你们的罪还在——你们自称有亮光却弃绝我，正是这一点把你们封存在不信的罪中。
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41. If ye were blind--wanted light to discern My claims, and only waited to receive it.
ye should have no sin--none of the guilt of shutting out the light.
ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth--Your claim to possess light, while rejecting Me, is that which seals you up in the guilt of unbelief.
Joh 9:1-41.
一个生来瞎眼的人眼睛得开，以及随之而来的事。
1-5. 耶稣过去的时候，看见一个人生来是瞎眼的——这人「坐着讨饭」
(Joh 9:8)。