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1Sa 5:1, 2.
英文原文
1Sa 5:1, 2.
THE PHILISTINES BRING THE ARK INTO THE HOUSE OF DAGON.
1. Ashdod--or Azotus, one of the five Philistine satrapies, and a place of great strength. It was an inland town, thirty-four miles north of Gaza, now called Esdud.
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2. 大袞廟——為這偶像建造了宏偉的廟宇。這是非利士人的主要神祇，但它的崇拜遍及全敘利亞，以及美索不達米亞和迦勒底；它的名字出現在楔形文字銘文上的亞述眾神之中[RAWLINSON]。它的形象是一個怪異的組合——人的頭、胸和手臂，接在魚的肚腹和尾巴上。被擄的約櫃被放在大袞廟中，就在這偶像的像前。
英文原文
2. the house of Dagon--Stately temples were erected in honor of this idol, which was the principal deity of the Philistines, but whose worship extended over all Syria, as well as Mesopotamia and Chaldea; its name being found among the Assyrian gods on the cuneiform inscriptions [RAWLINSON]. It was represented under a monstrous combination of a human head, breast, and arms, joined to the belly and tail of a fish. The captured ark was placed in the temple of Dagon, right before this image of the idol.
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1Sa 5:3-5.
撒上 5:3-5.
大袞仆倒。
3、4節. 亞實突人清早起來. 他們發現愚蠢敬拜的對象仆倒在神聖同在的象徵之前，便滿心驚恐。它雖被扶起，卻又倒下，並以完全被毀的狀態躺臥；它的頭和手臂從軀幹上斷下，落在相距甚遠、各自分開之處，彷彿被猛力拋掉，只剩下魚的部分。先前祭司曾隱瞞他們偶像的屈辱，如今卻更為明顯而可恥。它以被征服的仇敵和懇求者的姿態躺臥；這幅屈辱的景象，顯著地宣告了以色列神的至高。
英文原文
1Sa 5:3-5.
DAGON FALLS DOWN.
3, 4. they of Ashdod arose early--They were filled with consternation when they found the object of their stupid veneration prostrate before the symbol of the divine presence. Though set up, it fell again, and lay in a state of complete mutilation; its head and arms, severed from the trunk, were lying in distant and separate places, as if violently cast off, and only the fishy part remained. The degradation of their idol, though concealed by the priests on the former occasion, was now more manifest and infamous. It lay in the attitude of a vanquished enemy and a suppliant, and this picture of humiliation significantly declared the superiority of the God of Israel.
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5. 因此大袞的祭司和一切進大袞廟的人都不踏大袞廟的門檻——一個迷信的儀式悄然出現，並在神的護理下被延續下去，非利士人因此有分於傳揚這個證明他們的神無能為力的證據。
直到今日——這慣例在撰寫這段歷史時仍在實行——可能是在撒母耳晚年。
英文原文
5. Therefore neither the priests . . . nor any . . . tread on the threshold of Dagon--A superstitious ceremony crept in, and in the providence of God was continued, by which the Philistines contributed to publish this proof of the helplessness of their god.
unto this day--The usage continued in practice at the time when this history was written--probably in the later years of Samuel's life.
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1Sa 5:6-12.
1Sa 5:6-12.
非利士人受痔瘡之災。
6. 耶和華的手重加重擊亞實突人——亞實突人的狂妄受到一場以瘟疫形式臨到的嚴厲審判之罰。
使他們生痔瘡——出血性痔瘡
(Ps 78:66)，
病況極為嚴重。由於異教徒通常認為影響身體隱私部位的疾病是神明對冒犯自己的罪行的刑罰，亞實突人更容易將這流行的疫病視為證明神的忿怒——這忿怒已經彰顯在他們的偶像身上。
英文原文
1Sa 5:6-12.
THE PHILISTINES ARE SMITTEN WITH EMERODS.
6. the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod--The presumption of the Ashdodites was punished by a severe judgment that overtook them in the form of a pestilence.
smote them with emerods--bleeding piles, hemorrhoids
(Ps 78:66),
in a very aggravated form. As the heathens generally regarded diseases affecting the secret parts of the body as punishments from the gods for trespasses committed against themselves, the Ashdodites would be the more ready to look upon the prevailing epidemic as demonstrating the anger of God, already shown against their idol.
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7. 神的約櫃不可留在我們這裡——約櫃被依次移到全國幾個大城，但每個地方都爆發了同樣的瘟疫，來勢兇猛且致命，當局不得不將約櫃送回以色列地
[1Sa 5:8-10]。
英文原文
7. the ark of God shall not abide with us--It was removed successively to several of the large towns of the country, but the same pestilence broke out in every place and raged so fiercely and fatally that the authorities were forced to send the ark back into the land of Israel
[1Sa 5:8-10].
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11. 他們打發人——即以革倫的官長。
英文原文
11. they sent--that is, the magistrates of Ekron.
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12. 城裡的呼喊聲達到天上——這疾病伴有劇烈的疼痛，在非利士平原決非罕見的現象 [VAN DE VELDE]。
英文原文
12. the cry of the city went up to heaven--The disease is attended with acute pain, and it is far from being a rare phenomenon in the Philistian plain [VAN DE VELDE].
撒上5:1, 2。
非利士人把約櫃抬進大袞廟。
1. 亞實突——即亞鎖都，非利士五大省分之一，是一座堅固的大城。這是一個內陸城鎮，在迦薩以北三十四英里，現稱埃斯杜德。