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Deuteronomy 30:1
英文原文
The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God's dispensations. The closing words of the address therefore are words of comfort and promise. Compare marginal reference and Deuteronomy 4:29 ff; 1 Kings 8:46-50.
The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them.
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Deuteronomy 30:3
必使你的被擄歸回——即改變或終結你被擄或受苦的境況(比較 Psalm 14:7; Psalm 85:2; Jeremiah 30:18)。希臘文譯本的譯法意義深長:「主必醫治你的罪。」
這一節與隨後幾節的應許,無疑在士師時代已有局部的應驗;但這些應許的重要特點,在 Jeremiah 32:37 及以下,以及 Ezekiel 11:19 及以下、Ezekiel 34:13 及以下、Ezekiel 36:24 及以下屢屢重現,表明沒有一次應驗被視為用盡了這些應許。按著預言體系完全的類比,我們還可以說,從巴比倫被擄歸回,也未窮盡其深意。新約聖經承接這一脈絡(例如 Romans 11),預言以色列必復得神照約所施的憐憫。誠然,這些憐憫將不再像從前那樣,單單限於那一民族。「被擄的歸回」將在以色列歸向那位成全了律法、死了「不但替那一國死」、更要「將神四散的子民都聚集歸一」的主之時實現(John 11:51-52)。那時將「合成一群、歸一個牧人」(John 10:16)。至於猶太人的普遍歸信,是否會伴隨某種民族性的復興、恢復他們作選民的古老特權;更進一步,是否會把他們重新安置在列祖之地——這些都可視為屬於神的「隱祕的事」(Deuteronomy 29:29);我們的主自己誠然也是這樣教導我們的(Acts 1:6-7)。
英文原文
Will turn thy captivity - Will change or put an end to thy state of captivity or distress (compare Psalm 14:7; Psalm 85:2; Jeremiah 30:18). The rendering of the Greek version is significant; "the Lord will heal thy sins."
The promises of this and the following verses had no doubt their partial fulfillment in the days of the Judges; but the fact that various important features are repeated in Jeremiah 32:37 ff, and in Ezekiel 11:19 ff, Ezekiel 34:13 ff, Ezekiel 36:24 ff, shows us that none of these was regarded as exhausting the promises. In full analogy with the scheme of prophecy we may add that the return from the Babylonian captivity has not exhausted their depth. The New Testament takes up the strain (e. g. in Romans 11), and foretells the restoration of Israel to the covenanted mercies of God. True these mercies shall not be, as before, confined to that nation. The "turning again of the captivity" will be when Israel is converted to Him in whom the Law was fulfilled, and who died "not for that nation only," but also that he might "gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad" John 11:51-52. Then shall there be "one fold and one shepherd" John 10:16. But whether the general conversion of the Jews shall be accompanied with any national restoration, any recovery of their ancient prerogatives as the chosen people; and further, whether there shall be any local replacement of them in the land of their fathers, may be regarded as of "the secret things" which belong unto God Deuteronomy 29:29; and so indeed our Lord Himself teaches us Acts 1:6-7.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
將你心裏的污穢除掉——比較 Deuteronomy 10:16 的註釋;Jeremiah 32:39;Ezekiel 11:19。
英文原文
Circumcise thine heart - Compare Deuteronomy 10:16 note; Jeremiah 32:39; Ezra 11:19.
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Deuteronomy 30:11
不能以不知道律法的要求為推辭(Deuteronomy 30:10-14);因此,在 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 中,生與死、福與禍被莊嚴地陳明在百姓面前,任他們自行選擇;演講以一段懇切的勸勉作結,勸他們揀選那更好的分。
Deuteronomy 30:11-14。「出於信的義」確實真實地描述於律法這些話語之中;而在保羅的引導下(見旁註的參考經文),我們斷言它本有意如此。因為摩西在此歸於神律法的那種簡明與易得,除非藉著信,在律法中便既找不到、也無法在經歷中尋見;儘管就外表與字面而言,這律法已為我們寫明,使「讀的人容易讀」,其本分與制裁也如從前摩西在猶太人面前所陳明的一樣清楚。誡命看似容易,對屬血氣的人卻實際上不可能遵行——這正是律法堪作我們訓蒙的師傅、引我們到基督那裡的資格之一。
Deuteronomy 30:11
不是向你隱藏的——毋寧作「不是太難行的」,如 Deuteronomy 17:8 的用法。
也不是離你遠的——參 Luke 17:21。
英文原文
Ignorance of the requirements of the law cannot be pleaded Deuteronomy 30:10-14; hence, Deuteronomy 30:15-20 life and death, good and evil, are solemnly set before the people for their own choice; and an earnest exhortation to choose the better part concludes the address.
Deuteronomy 30:11-14. "The righteousness which is of faith" is really and truly described in these words of the Law; and, under Paul's guidance (see marginal references) we affirm was intended so to be. For the simplicity and accessibility which Moses here attributes to the Law of God neither is nor can be experimentally found in it except through the medium of faith; even though outwardly and in the letter that Law be written out for us so "that he may run that readeth," and be set forth in its duties and its sanctions as plainly as it was before the Jews by Moses. The seeming ease of the commandment, and yet its real impossibility to the natural man, form part of the qualifications of the Law to be our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.
Deuteronomy 30:11
Not hidden from thee - Rather, not too hard for thee, as in Deuteronomy 17:8.
Neither is it far off - Compare Luke 17:21.
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Deuteronomy 30:13
耶路撒冷他爾根(Jerusalem Targum)對本節的意譯值得注意,應與保羅在 Romans 10:7 的引述相比較:「律法也不是在大海的那邊,使你不得不說:惟願我們有一位像先知約拿的,能下到海深處把它取上來給我們!」
英文原文
The paraphrase of this verse in the Jerusalem Targum is noteworthy, and should be compared with Paul's rendering in Romans 10:7 : "Neither is the law beyond the great sea, that thou shouldest say, Oh that we had one like Jonah the prophet who could descend into the depths of the sea and bring it to us!"
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Deuteronomy 30:14
在你口中,在你心裏——比較申命記 6:6;申命記 11:18-20。
英文原文
In thy mouth, and in, thy heart - Compare Deuteronomy 6:6; Deuteronomy 11:18-20.
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Deuteronomy 30:20
愛耶和華你的神——比較申 6:5。愛居首位,是順服的本質和唯一根源。
他是你的生命——或作「那」(即「愛耶和華」)「就是你的生命」,即你在應許之地得生命並長久存活的條件。比較申 4:40;申 32:47。
英文原文
That thou mayest love the Lord - Compare Deuteronomy 6:5. Love stands first as the essential and only source of obedience.
He is thy life - Or, "that" (i. e., "to love the Lord") "is thy life;" i. e., the condition of thy life and of its prolongation in the promised land. Compare Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 32:47.
以色列被棄、應許之業荒涼,並不是神種種安排的終局。因此這篇講論結束的話,乃是安慰與應許的話。比較旁註參考及 Deuteronomy 4:29 及以下;1 Kings 8:46-50。
神的懲治必引導這民悔改,隨後神必再度賜福給他們。