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Nu 14:1-45.
英文原文
Nu 14:1-45.
THE PEOPLE MURMUR AT THE SPIES' REPORT.
1. all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried--Not literally all, for there were some exceptions.
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2-4. 巴不得我们死在埃及——如此对待宽宏领袖的傲慢，如此对神的卑鄙忘恩，显明了以色列人的深度堕落，也显明那禁止该世代进入应许之地的判令是绝对必要的
[Nu 14:29-35]。
他们所受的惩罚，正是其愿望得着应允——死在那旷野
[Heb 3:17; Jude 5]。
《尼希米记》提到，一位要领他们回埃及的首领实际上已被推举
(Ne 9:17)。
他们行为的罪恶与疯狂愚蠢几乎令人难以置信。然而，他们的行为与我们当中太多人如出一辙：这些人因最小的困难而退缩，宁愿继续作罪的奴仆，也不愿坚决尝试克服那横亘在他们通往天上迦南路上的障碍。
英文原文
2-4. Would God that we had died in Egypt--Such insolence to their generous leaders, and such base ingratitude to God, show the deep degradation of the Israelites, and the absolute necessity of the decree that debarred that generation from entering the promised land
[Nu 14:29-35].
They were punished by their wishes being granted to die in that wilderness
[Heb 3:17; Jude 5].
A leader to reconduct them to Egypt is spoken of
(Ne 9:17)
as actually nominated. The sinfulness and insane folly of their conduct are almost incredible. Their conduct, however, is paralleled by too many among us, who shrink from the smallest difficulties and rather remain slaves to sin than resolutely try to surmount the obstacles that lie in their way to the Canaan above.
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5. 摩西、亚伦就俯伏在地——作为谦卑恳切的祈求者——或是对百姓，恳求他们放弃如此乖谬的计谋；或更确切地说，是向神祈求，因为面对那暴乱顽梗之民的强暴，神是惯常且唯一的避难所——这是软化并感化他们内心的有望之途。
英文原文
5. Moses and Aaron fell on their faces--as humble and earnest suppliants--either to the people, entreating them to desist from so perverse a design; or rather, to God, as the usual and only refuge from the violence of that tumultuous and stiff-necked rabble--a hopeful means of softening and impressing their hearts.
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6. 嫩的儿子约书亚……和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒，在那些窥探地的人之中，撕裂了衣服——这两位诚实的探子以最强烈的方式，表达了他们对叛乱摩西和谤讟神的忧伤与惊骇；同时又竭力以真实的陈述劝服百姓：只要他们不因叛逆与忘恩激使神离弃他们，他们便可以轻易地取得如此令人向往之地。
英文原文
6. Joshua . . . and Caleb, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes--The two honest spies testified their grief and horror, in the strongest manner, at the mutiny against Moses and the blasphemy against God; while at the same time they endeavored, by a truthful statement, to persuade the people of the ease with which they might obtain possession of so desirable a country, provided they did not, by their rebellion and ingratitude, provoke God to abandon them.
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8. 流奶与蜜之地——一个概括性的说法，形容富庶肥沃之地。所指定的这两样，是圣地的主要物产之一。
英文原文
8. a land flowing with milk and honey--a general expression, descriptive of a rich and fertile country. The two articles specified were among the principal products of the Holy Land.
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9. 他们的保护者已经离开他们——希伯来文作“他们的荫庇”。土耳其的苏丹和波斯的沙阿被称为“神的荫庇”“世界的避难所”。因此“他们的保护者已经离开他们”一语的意思是：那些罪孽已经满盈的人
(Ge 15:16)，
如今已失去神的恩宠，而这恩宠已转赐给以色列人。
英文原文
9. their defence is departed--Hebrew, "their shadow." The Sultan of Turkey and the Shah of Persia are called "the shadow of God," "the refuge of the world." So that the meaning of the clause, "their defence is departed from them," is, that the favor of God was now lost to those whose iniquities were full
(Ge 15:16),
and transferred to the Israelites.
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10. 耶和华的荣光显现——在这重大危急之时，荣光适时显现，以拯救其使者脱离险境。
英文原文
10. the glory of the Lord appeared--It was seasonably manifested on this great emergency to rescue His ambassadors from their perilous situation.
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12. 耶和华说……我必用瘟疫击杀他们——这不是最终的判令，而是一句警告，从结果看，它因摩西的代求和以色列的悔改而暂缓执行。
英文原文
12. the Lord said, . . . I will smite them with the pestilence--not a final decree, but a threatening, suspended, as appeared from the issue, on the intercession of Moses and the repentance of Israel.
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17. 愿我主的大能彰显——即被显为大。
英文原文
17. let the power of my Lord be great--be magnified.
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21. 惟耶和华的荣耀充满全地——这应许就其全部含义而言，尚有待基督教在世界范围内最终且普遍的兴盛来印证。但这些词语就当时的场合而言，是用以限定意义的——指神在执行所描述的刑罚时所要行的“可畏的义事”
[Ps 65:5]，
那报告将传遍全地；这刑罚正是那悖逆的世代如今被判处所当受的。
英文原文
21. all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord--This promise, in its full acceptation, remains to be verified by the eventual and universal prevalence of Christianity in the world. But the terms were used restrictively in respect to the occasion, to the report which would spread over all the land of the "terrible things in righteousness"
[Ps 65:5]
which God would do in the infliction of the doom described, to which that rebellious race was now consigned.
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22. 十次——即极其频繁。
英文原文
22. ten times--very frequently.
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24. 我的仆人迦勒——约书亚也在此例外，但他未被提及，因为他已不在百姓的行列中，而是常常随侍摩西左右。
因为他另有一个心志，专心跟从我——在神之灵的影响下，迦勒是一个勇敢、宽宏、英勇无畏的人，超乎世俗的忧虑与恐惧。
英文原文
24. my servant Caleb--Joshua was also excepted, but he is not named because he was no longer in the ranks of the people, being a constant attendant on Moses.
because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully--Under the influence of God's Spirit, Caleb was a man of bold, generous, heroic courage, above worldly anxieties and fears.
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25. （亚玛力人和迦南人住在那谷中）——即在以土买山另一侧，他们当时就在山脚下安营。那些游牧部族当时已占据该地，决意要阻挡希伯来人继续前进。因此神命令他们及时退入旷野，寻得安全的退路，以躲避那些坚决仇敌的追击；因为他们既已失去神的同在与保护，便要带着妻儿成为仇敌无助的猎物。本节是叙事中重要的一部分，应当从英文译者所加的括注形式中解脱出来。
英文原文
25. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley)--that is, on the other side of the Idumean mountain, at whose base they were then encamped. Those nomad tribes had at that time occupied it with a determination to oppose the further progress of the Hebrew people. Hence God gave the command that they seek a safe and timely retreat into the desert, to escape the pursuit of those resolute enemies, to whom, with their wives and children, they would fall a helpless prey because they had forfeited the presence and protection of God. This verse forms an important part of the narrative and should be freed from the parenthetical form which our English translators have given it.
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30. 惟有迦勒……和约书亚——这里特别提及他们，作为其余探子中可敬的例外，也作为百姓未来的领袖。但看来老一辈中有些人并没有参与叛变的怨言，其中包括整个祭司阶次
(书 14:1)。
英文原文
30. save Caleb . . . and Joshua--These are specially mentioned, as honorable exceptions to the rest of the scouts, and also as the future leaders of the people. But it appears that some of the old generation did not join in the mutinous murmuring, including in that number the whole order of the priests
(Jos 14:1).
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34. 你们必知道我废弃所立的约——即由于你们违背了你我之间所立的约，破坏了约的条件，我这边也就使约失效，因为你们既不顺服，我就扣留我在那约中所应许要赐给你们的福。
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34. ye shall know my breach of promise--that is, in consequence of your violation of the covenant betwixt you and Me, by breaking the terms of it, it shall be null and void on My part, as I shall withhold the blessings I promised in that covenant to confer on you on condition of your obedience.
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36-38. 那些报恶信的人，都遭瘟疫死在耶和华面前——十个探子当场被击杀——或死于瘟疫，或死于别的审判。这场重大而可畏的死亡显然显出是耶和华的手。
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36-38. those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord--Ten of the spies struck dead on the spot--either by the pestilence or some other judgment. This great and appalling mortality clearly betokened the hand of the Lord.
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40-45. 他们清早起来上到山顶——尽管摩西所传的消息使全营弥漫着忧郁悲伤之情，这印象却为时甚短。他们从一个极端的任性顽梗，跳到另一个极端；他们既已受神警告不可上那山去，却仍积极预备登山，可见其悖逆之心何等顽梗。
因为我们犯了罪——即我们如今认识到自己的罪，便悔改了，急欲照迦勒和约书亚所劝我们的去行——或如有人所译：虽然我们犯了罪，我们仍信神会将应许之地赐给我们。他们那位敬虔而贤明的领袖劝阻他们，说他们的仇敌必从谷的另一侧攀上，比他们先占据山顶；但这些劝告都被置之不理。以色列人的行事何等乖谬！不久之前他们还害怕，虽说全能的王与他们同在，他们仍不能得那地为业；如今他们却更愚拙地以为，纵然神不与他们同在，他们凭自己的力量也能赶出居民。后果正如所料。亚玛力人和迦南人早已埋伏在那里，等候他们出动；如今从高处冲下来，成为惩罚他们有罪叛乱的器皿。
英文原文
40-45. they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain--Notwithstanding the tidings that Moses communicated and which diffused a general feeling of melancholy and grief throughout the camp, the impression was of very brief continuance. They rushed from one extreme of rashness and perversity to another, and the obstinacy of their rebellious spirit was evinced by their active preparations to ascend the hill, notwithstanding the divine warning they had received not to undertake that enterprise.
for we have sinned--that is, realizing our sin, we now repent of it, and are eager to do as Caleb and Joshua exhorted us--or, as some render it, though we have sinned, we trust God will yet give us the land of promise. The entreaties of their prudent and pious leader, who represented to them that their enemies, scaling the other side of the valley, would post themselves on the top of the hill before them, were disregarded. How strangely perverse the conduct of the Israelites, who, shortly before, were afraid that, though their Almighty King was with them, they could not get possession of the land; and yet now they act still more foolishly in supposing that, though God were not with them, they could expel the inhabitants by their unaided efforts. The consequences were such as might have been anticipated. The Amalekites and Canaanites, who had been lying in ambuscade expecting their movement, rushed down upon them from the heights and became the instruments of punishing their guilty rebellion.
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45. 直到何珥玛——这名字是后来才给那地方的，为要记念此次以色列人在那里被大规模杀戮的事。
英文原文
45. even unto Hormah--The name was afterwards given to that place in memory of the immense slaughter of the Israelites on this occasion.
Nu 14:1-45.
百姓因 探子 所报而发怨言。
1. 全会众大声喧嚷、哭号——并非字面上的一切人，因为仍有少数例外。