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Jeremiah 45 Introduction
英文原文
The long catalogue of calamities so consistently denounced by Jeremiah against his country Jeremiah 45:1-5, made a most painful impression upon Baruch's mind. He was of ambitious temperament Jeremiah 45:5, and being of noble birth as the grandson of Maaseiah, the governor of Jerusalem in Josiah's time 2 Chronicles 34:8, and a scribe, he appears to have looked forward either to high office in the state, or far more probably to being invested with prophetic powers. This address tells Baruch to give up his ambitious hopes, and be content with escaping with life only. Like the prophecy of the 70 years of exile, it would become a prediction of good only after really troubles had been undergone and pride was quelled. As regards the place of this prophecy it would come in order of time next to Jeremiah 36, but as that was a public, and this a private prophecy, they would not be written upon the same scroll. When the last memorials of Jeremiah's life were added to the history of the fall of Jerusalem, Baruch attached to them this prediction, which - humbled by years, and the weight of public and private calamity - he now read with very different feelings from those which filled his mind in his youth.
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Jeremiah 45:1
「這些話」——即約雅敬書卷上的話。
英文原文
These words - i. e., the words of Jehoiakim's scroll.
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Jeremiah 45:3
「將憂愁加在我的痛苦上」——巴錄的憂愁因猶太民族的罪惡而起，神又藉著顯明這罪將受何等嚴厲的懲罰，在這憂愁上再添憂愁。
「我因唉哼而困乏」——或作「我因唉哼而困倦」（見 Psalm 6:6）。
英文原文
Grief to my sorrow - Baruch's sorrow is caused by the sinfulness of the Jewish nation, to which God adds grief by showing how severely it will be punished.
I fainted in - Or, "am weary with" Psalm 6:6.
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Jeremiah 45:4
「地」——或作「全地」。巴錄的命運正落在那樣一個動盪的時代——神在其中要向凡有血氣的施行審判(耶利米書45:5)。被尼布甲尼撒的征伐拋入騷亂的,不僅是猶太,更是當時整個已知的世界(耶利米書25:26)。
英文原文
land - Or, earth. Baruch's lot was cast in one of those troublous times when God enters into judgment with all flesh Jeremiah 45:5. It was not Judaea only but the whole known world that was thrown into turmoil by Nebuchadnezzars energy Jeremiah 25:26.
耶利米向本國一貫宣告的那一長串災禍（Jeremiah 45:1-5），在巴錄心中留下了極痛苦的印象。他生性懷有雄心（Jeremiah 45:5）；身為約西亞年間耶路撒冷城邑官瑪西雅之孫（2 Chronicles 34:8），又是一位文士，他似乎一直指望在國中得高位，或者——更可能的是——指望被授予先知的恩賜。這番話吩咐巴錄放棄他的雄心壯志，滿足於僅僅保住性命。正如被擄七十年的預言一樣，惟有在真正經歷患難、驕傲被制服之後，它才會成為福祉的預言。至於這預言的位置，按時間順序它應緊接在 Jeremiah 36 之後；但由於那是一段公開的預言，而這是一段私下的預言，二者不會寫在同一書卷上。當耶利米生平最後的記事被補入耶路撒冷陷落的歷史時，巴錄把這段預言附在其後；此時的他——已被歲月和公私災禍的重壓磨得謙卑——再讀這預言，心中所充滿的，已與他年輕時的感受大不相同了。