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Jon 2:1-10.
英文原文
Jon 2:1-10.
JONAH'S PRAYER OF FAITH AND DELIVERANCE.
1. his God--"his" still, though Jonah had fled from Him. Faith enables Jonah now to feel this; just as the returning prodigal says of the Father, from whom he had wandered, "I will arise and go to my Father"
(Lu 15:18).
out of the fish's belly--Every place may serve as an oratory. No place is amiss for prayer. Others translate, "when (delivered) out of the fish's belly." English Version is better.
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- 他的祷告一部分是描述与祈求，一部分是感恩。约拿把早就在教会中熟悉的受感之言融入自己的话语：拿 2:2 用了诗 120:1；拿 2:3 用了诗 42:7；拿 2:4 用了诗 31:22；拿 2:5 用了诗 69:1；拿 2:7 用了诗 142:3、18:6；拿 2:8 用了诗 31:6；拿 2:9 用了诗 116:17-18及3:8。
身为受感之人的约拿，借此为诗篇的古老与受感性同作见证。约拿把自己与古圣同列，把神之道中所记他们的经历据为己有，这正显出信心的精神（诗 119:50）。苦难能把从前只见表面的圣经矿脉打开。
“从阴间的腹中”——即示洛（Sheol），不可见的世界，鱼腹正与之相似。
英文原文
2. His prayer is partly descriptive and precatory, partly eucharistical. Jonah incorporates with his own language inspired utterances familiar to the Church long before in
Jon 2:2, Ps 120:1;
in
Jon 2:3, Ps 42:7;
in Jon 2:4, Ps 31:22;
in
Jon 2:5, Ps 69:1;
in Jon 2:7, Ps 142:3; 18:6;
in
Jon 2:8, Ps 31:6;
in
Jon 2:9, Ps 116:17, 18, and 3:8.
Jonah, an inspired man, thus attests both the antiquity and inspiration of the Psalms. It marks the spirit of faith, that Jonah identifies himself with the saints of old, appropriating their experiences as recorded in the Word of God
(Ps 119:50).
Affliction opens up the mine of Scripture, before seen only on the surface.
out of the belly of hell--Sheol, the unseen world, which the belly of the fish resembled.
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- “你将我投下……你的大浪……你的波浪”——约拿承认自己苦难的源头。这并非偶然，而是神的手把苦难差来。比较约伯在灾祸中同样承认神之手的例子：伯 1:21；2:10；以及大卫的例子：撒下 16:5-11。
英文原文
3. thou hadst cast . . . thy billows . . . thy waves--Jonah recognizes the source whence his sufferings came. It was no mere chance, but the hand of God which sent them. Compare Job's similar recognition of God's hand in calamities,
Job 1:21; 2:10;
and David's,
2Sa 16:5-11.
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- “我从你眼前被驱逐”——即从你恩眷的注视中被驱逐。这是对那“躲避耶和华面”之人的公正报应（拿 1:3）。
如今他既如愿以偿，却感到失去神的同在是自己最深的痛苦——而这同在曾被他视为重担，并急欲逃脱。他既向神转过背，神也向他转过背，使他的罪成为他的刑罚。
“向你的圣殿”——他在信心的把握中，预期还能看见耶路撒冷的圣殿——那指定的敬拜之所（王上 8:38），并在那里献上感恩[亨德森（Henderson）]。但我以为更恰当的理解是：“虽从你眼前被驱逐，我仍要凭着信心的眼再一次在祷告中向你在耶路撒冷的圣殿仰望，因为那是你地上的宝座，你要敬拜者朝之祷告的方向。”
英文原文
4. cast out from thy sight--that is, from Thy favorable regard. A just retribution on one who had fled "from the presence of the Lord"
(Jon 1:3).
Now that he has got his desire, he feels it to be his bitterest sorrow to be deprived of God's presence, which once he regarded as a burden, and from which he desired to escape. He had turned his back on God; so God turned His back on him, making his sin his punishment.
toward thy holy temple--In the confidence of faith he anticipates yet to see the temple at Jerusalem, the appointed place of worship
(1Ki 8:38),
and there to render thanksgiving [HENDERSON]. Rather, I think, "Though cast out of Thy sight, I will still with the eye of faith once more look in prayer towards Thy temple at Jerusalem, whither, as Thy earthly throne, Thou hast desired Thy worshippers to direct their prayers."
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- “直到性命”——即威胁要断绝属肉体的生命。
“海草”——他觉得自己被拖曳时所经过的海草仿佛缠裹住他的头。
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5. even to the soul--that is, threatening to extinguish the animal life.
weeds--He felt as if the seaweeds through which he was dragged were wrapped about his head.
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- “山的根源”——即山脉在海的隐密深处终止的末端。比较诗 18:7“山的根基”（诗 18:15）。
“地为我关上门闩”——“地”即活人之地的地上向我是关闭的（不是“曾关闭”）。
“永远”——就我自己任何努力能拯救自己而言。
“你却将我的性命从坑中救上来”——更恰当应作“你正……救上来……从坑中”[莫勒（Maurer）]。他在前几句中表达自己境况的绝望，在这一句中表达借着耶和华无穷的资源必得拯救的确定盼望。他“在无可指望的时候，因信仍有指望”，并说话仿佛拯救正在实现。希西家似乎把约拿的这话融入自己的祷告（赛 38:17），正如约拿取用了诗篇的语言。
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6. bottoms of . . . mountains--their extremities where they terminate in the hidden depths of the sea. Compare
Ps 18:7,
"the foundations of the hills"
(Ps 18:15).
earth with her bars was about me--Earth, the land of the living, is (not "was") shut against me.
for ever--so far as any effort of mine can deliver me.
yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption--rather, "Thou bringest . . . from the pit" [MAURER]. As in the previous clauses he expresses the hopelessness of his state, so in this, his sure hope of deliverance through Jehovah's infinite resources. "Against hope he believes in hope," and speaks as if the deliverance were actually being accomplished. Hezekiah seems to have incorporated Jonah's very words in his prayer
(Isa 38:17),
just as Jonah appropriated the language of the Psalms.
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- “我心在我里面发昏……我就想念耶和华”——美好地展示灵胜过肉体、信胜过感官的得胜（诗 73:26；42:6）。
一时之间苦难把盼望关在门外；但当约拿“想念耶和华”时，信心便复苏——记念他是何等恩慈的神，以及如今他仍在这黑暗的囚室中保全自己的生命与知觉。
“向你的圣殿”——指耶路撒冷的圣殿（拿 2:4）。正如他在那里以信心的祷告朝圣殿仰望，在这里他把祷告视为已经蒙允。
英文原文
7. soul fainted . . . I remembered the Lord--beautifully exemplifying the triumph of spirit over flesh, of faith over sense
(Ps 73:26; 42:6).
For a time troubles shut out hope; but faith revived when Jonah "remembered the Lord," what a gracious God He is, and how now He still preserves his life and consciousness in his dark prison-house.
into thine holy temple--the temple at Jerusalem
(Jon 2:4).
As there he looks in believing prayer towards it, so here he regards his prayer as already heard.
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- “信奉虚妄的人”——即看重或敬拜那无力拯救的偶像（诗 31:6）。
“怜爱”——指耶和华；如今约拿心中，对耶和华的观念与怜悯、慈爱已然等同。正如诗篇作者（诗 144:2）称他为“我的良善”，即对我满有恩惠的神。比较诗 59:17“赐恩与我的神”，字面作“我的慈爱之神”。约拿曾“离弃他自己的怜爱”——即神——逃到敬拜“虚妄之物”（偶像）的外邦之地。如今，借着自己在鱼腹中尚且保有清醒生命的经历，以及水手们的偶像无法平息风浪的事实（拿 1:5）所学的功课，他发现远离神就是远离自己的幸福（耶 2:13；17:13）。
从前约拿的祷告被压抑，以致他在危险中“沉睡”；但如今祷告是他归向神的确定标记。
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8. observe lying vanities--regard or reverence idols, powerless to save
(Ps 31:6).
mercy--Jehovah, the very idea of whom is identified now in Jonah's mind with mercy and loving-kindness. As the Psalmist
(Ps 144:2)
styles Him, "my goodness"; God who is to me all beneficence. Compare
Ps 59:17,
"the God of my mercy," literally, "my kindness-God." Jonah had "forsaken His own mercy," God, to flee to heathen lands where "lying vanities" (idols) were worshipped. But now, taught by his own preservation in conscious life in the fish's belly, and by the inability of the mariners' idols to lull the storm
(Jon 1:5),
estrangement from God seems estrangement from his own happiness
(Jer 2:13; 17:13).
Prayer has been restrained in Jonah's case, so that he was "fast asleep" in the midst of danger, heretofore; but now prayer is the sure sign of his return to God.
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- “我用感谢的声音献祭”——他在对必得拯救的信心期待中，已经献上感谢。约沙法（代下 20:21）在与摩押、亚扪交战之前，就派歌唱者在军队前面赞美耶和华，仿佛胜利已经到手。神看重这种对他的信靠。这里也有成圣之苦难的标记：他许愿要改正并感恩地顺服（诗 119:67）。
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9. I will sacrifice . . . thanksgiving--In the believing anticipation of sure deliverance, he offers thanksgivings already. So Jehoshaphat
(2Ch 20:21)
appointed singers to praise the Lord in front of the army before the battle with Moab and Ammon, as if the victory was already gained. God honors such confidence in Him. There is also herein a mark of sanctified affliction, that he vows amendment and thankful obedience
(Ps 119:67).
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- “旱地上”——大概在巴勒斯坦海岸。
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10. upon the dry land--probably on the coast of Palestine.
拿 2:1-10。
约拿信心的祷告与得救。
“从鱼腹里”——任何地方都可作祷告之所；没有一处不适于祷告。也有人译作“（被救出）鱼腹之后”。英文译本更佳。