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Ezekiel 5:1
英文原文
Translate it: take thee a sharp sword, for a barber's razor thou shalt take it thee. Even if the action were literal, the use of an actual sword would best enforce the symbolic meaning. The "head" represents the chief city, the "hair" the inhabitants - its ornament and glory - the "hair cut from the head" the exiles cast forth from their homes. It adds to the force of the representation that "to shave the head" was a token of mourning Job 1:20, and was forbidden to the priests Leviticus 21:5. Thus, in many ways, this action of Ezekiel "the priest" is significant of calamity and ruin. The sword indicates the avenging power; the shaving of the head the removal of grace and glory; the scales and weights the determination of divine justice. Compare Zechariah 13:8-9.
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Ezekiel 5:2
「在城中三分之一燒掉」，代表圍城期間死在城內的人；「在城四圍用刀擊殺三分之一」，代表同一時期在城外被殺的人；「任風分散三分之一」，代表圍城之後流散到列國的人。
在城中——先知身在被擄之地，卻要在耶路撒冷城中行這事。他的動作既是象徵性的，便恰當地歸於預言所關涉的地點。
圍城的日子滿了——即「那圍城之象徵性表現的日子滿了」。
英文原文
"The third part burnt in the midst of the city" represents those who perished within the city during the siege; "the third part smitten about it" (the city) "with" the sword, those who were killed about the city during the same period: "the third part scattered to the wind" those who after the siege were dispersed in foreign lands.
In the midst of the city - The prophet is in exile, and is to do this in the midst of Jerusalem. His action being ideal is fitly assigned to the place which the prophecy concerns.
When the days of the siege are fulfilled - i. e., "when the days of the figurative representation of the siege are fulfilled."
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Ezekiel 5:3
那三分之一中，還要取出少數包在衣襟裏保存（代表仍要留在故土的人）；然而連這少數中，也有一部分要被扔進火裏。耶路撒冷被毀之後遺下之人的命運正是如此（Jeremiah 40; 41）。這整段預言是一篇定罪的宣告。
英文原文
Of the third part a few are yet to be taken and kept in the fold of the garment (representing those still to remain in their native land), and yet even of those few some are to be cast into the fire. Such was the fate of those left behind after the destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 40; 41. The whole prophecy is one of denunciation.
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Ezekiel 5:4
其中——或作「從那裏」，即出於火之中。當略去「因為」一詞。
英文原文
Thereof - Or, from thence, out of the midst of the fire. Omit "For."
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Ezekiel 5:5
我將她安置在列邦之中——各國把自己最尊崇的聖所視為大地的中心，這在古代並不罕見。就聖地而言，這既是自然的，也是恰當的。南方的埃及、北方的敘利亞、東方的亞述、西邊大海中外邦人的眾島，對猶太人來說，都是他的地處列邦中央的明證（比較 Jeremiah 3:19）。分派給選民居住之地，起初適於使他們與列國分別；其後適於作所羅門廣大政權與通商的中心；及至他們從鄰國學了偶像崇拜，這居中的位置便成了他們受罰的根源。聖地位於埃及與亞述兩大帝國之間，成了兩強爭戰的戰場，並隨著一方或另一方一時得勢而交替受苦。
英文原文
I have set it in the midst of the nations - It was not unusual for nations to regard the sanctuary, which they most revered, as the center of the earth. In the case of the holy land this was both natural and appropriate. Egypt to the south, Syria to the north, Assyria to the east and the Isles of the Gentiles in the Great Sea to the west, were to the Jew proofs of the central position of his land in the midst of the nations (compare Jeremiah 3:19). The habitation assigned to the chosen people was suitable at the first for separating them from the nations; then for the seat of the vast dominion and commerce of Solomon; then, when they learned from their neighbors idol-worship, their central position was the source of their punishment. Midway between the mighty empires of Egypt and Assyria the holy land became a battlefield for the two powers, and suffered alternately from each as for the time the one or the other became predominant.
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Ezekiel 5:6
他們——指耶路撒冷的居民。
英文原文
They - The inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 5:7
因為你們……加增——有人偏好譯作：「因為你們喧嚷暴亂」。
也不照列國的典章行——這裏的責備在於：以色列人對他們獨一真神的忠心，竟不及列國對假神的忠心（比較 2 Kings 17:33）。
英文原文
Because ye multiplied - Some prefer: Because ye have raged tumultuously."
Neither have done according to the judgments - (or, ordinances) of the nations The reproach is that the Israelites have not even been as faithful to their one true God as the nations have been to their false gods (compare 2 Kings 17:33).
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Ezekiel 5:8
施行審判——如向埃及的假神所行的（Exodus 12:12；Numbers 33:4）。
英文原文
Execute judgments - As upon the false gods of Egypt Exodus 12:12; Numbers 33:4.
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Ezekiel 5:9
比較 Matthew 24:21。巴比倫之災被羅馬圍城所超越，而羅馬圍城又不過是最後之日更大毀滅的預表。
英文原文
Compare Matthew 24:21. The calamities of the Babylonian were surpassed by the Roman siege, and these again were but a foreshadowing of still more terrible destruction at the last day.
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Ezekiel 5:12
「饑荒、瘟疫」與「刀劍」的審判（Ezekiel 5:12-17），正是隨後耶路撒冷被圍困時實際臨到的（Jeremiah 15:2 以下）。「在祂們後面拔出刀來」表明神的怒氣甚至要跟隨他們到被擄之地（比較 Jeremiah 42:19-22；Leviticus 26:25），也表明巴比倫圍城的恐怖不過是這民族苦難的起頭。
英文原文
The judgments Ezekiel 5:12-17 of "famine, pestilence," and the "sword," were precisely those which attended the coming siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 15:2 ff). The "drawing out the sword after them" indicates that the anger of God will follow them even to the land of their exile (compare Jeremiah 42:19-22; Leviticus 26:25), and that the horrors of the Babylonian siege are but the beginning of the sorrows of the nation.
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Ezekiel 5:13
得了安慰——在此意為「自我慰解」並「在刑罰中感到滿足」；故有「親自報仇」之意。
怒氣要「安息」在他們身上，即停留不去。「發盡」神的怒氣，不是指怒氣到此結束的「完畢」，而是指把它完全施行出來。
英文原文
Comforted - In the sense of "consoling oneself" and "feeling satisfaction in punishing;" hence, to "avenge oneself."
The fury is to "rest" upon them, abide, so as not to pass away. The "accomplishment" of the divine anger is not the "completion" in the sense of bringing it to a close, but in the sense of carrying it out to the full.
可譯作：你要拿一把快刀，當作剃頭刀用。即使這動作是按字義執行的，用一把真正的刀也最能強化其象徵意義。「頭」代表首要之城，「髮」代表其居民——那城的裝飾與榮耀；「從頭上剃下的頭髮」代表被逐離家園的被擄者。「剃頭」本是哀傷的記號（Job 1:20），且是祭司所不可行的（Leviticus 21:5），這一點更加添了此表像的力量。因此，以西結這位「祭司」的動作，在多方面都預表災禍與毀滅。刀表明報復的大能；剃頭表明恩惠與榮耀的被除；天平與法碼表明神公義的裁斷。比較 Zechariah 13:8-9。