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Jeremiah 24 Introduction
英文原文
This prophecy Jeremiah 24:1-10 is the final outcome of what has gone before. Never perhaps has a reigning king been addressed in such contemptuous terms. When Jeconiah was carried to Babylon, Zedekiah, the priests, prophets, and people of Jerusalem congratulated themselves upon being saved from such a fate: really all that was good among them was then culled out, and placed in safety; and they were left behind because they were not worth the taking.
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Jeremiah 24:1
宜省略「were」一詞。「擺在……面前」——意即放在聖殿前院中指定陳列初熟果子供物的地方。
「木匠」——宜作「工匠」（見邊註經文）。
英文原文
Omit "were." "Set before," i. e put in the appointed place for offerings of firstfruits in the forecourt of the temple.
Carpenters - "Craftsmen" (see the marginal reference).
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Jeremiah 24:2
無花果樹一年可結三季果子，其中第一季被視為格外珍美的佳果。
英文原文
Fig-trees bear three crops of figs, of which the first is regarded as a great delicacy.
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Jeremiah 24:4
這預言的完全應驗屬於基督教會。耶路撒冷第一次被毀時的耶利米，與第二次被毀時的我主，兩者之間有密切的類比。在那裡，好無花果是藉著基督與眾使徒的講道被挑選出來的歸信者；壞無花果則是留下來給提多和羅馬人毀滅的百姓大眾。
英文原文
The complete fulfillment of this prophecy belongs to the Christian Church. There is a close analogy between Jeremiah at the first destruction of Jerusalem and our Lord at the second. There the good figs were those converts picked out by the preaching of Christ and the Apostles; the bad figs were the mass of the people left for Titus and the Romans to destroy.
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Jeremiah 24:5
「看顧他們……叫他們得好處」——特別指他們屬靈的好處。在「迦勒底人」之後應加逗號。
英文原文
Acknowledge ... for their good - Specially their spiritual good. Put a comma after Chaldaeans.
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Jeremiah 24:8
「住在埃及地的人」——無論是與約哈斯一同被擄到埃及的人，還是逃往那裏的人，都不得分享這些福分。猶太民族的新生命，將單單出於巴比倫的被擄之民。
英文原文
That dwell in the land of Egypt - Neither those carried captive with Jehoahaz into Egypt, nor those who fled there, are to share in these blessings. The new life of the Jewish nation is to be the work only of the exiles in Babylon.
這段預言（Jeremiah 24:1-10）是此前一切的終局。或許從未有在位的君王受過如此輕蔑的言辭。當耶哥尼雅被掳到巴比倫時，西底家和耶路撒冷的祭司、先知並百姓，都自慶得免那樣的厄運；實際上，他們中間一切好的都在那時被揀出、安置在安全之地，而他們被撇下，只是因為不值得帶走。