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De 9:1-25.
英文原文
De 9:1-25.
MOSES DISSUADES THEM FROM THE OPINION OF THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
1. this day--means this time. The Israelites had reached the confines of the promised land, but were obliged, to their great mortification, to return. But now they certainly were to enter it. No obstacle could prevent their possession; neither the fortified defenses of the towns, nor the resistance of the gigantic inhabitants of whom they had received from the spies so formidable a description.
cities great and fenced up to heaven--Oriental cities generally cover a much greater space than those in Europe; for the houses often stand apart with gardens and fields intervening. They are almost all surrounded with walls built of burnt or sun-dried bricks, about forty feet in height. All classes in the East, but especially the nomad tribes, in their ignorance of engineering and artillery, would have abandoned in despair the idea of an assault on a walled town, which to-day would be demolished in a few hours.
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4-6. 你不可心裡說……說，耶和華因我的義將我領進來得這地為業——摩西特別謹慎地提防國人因虛榮而以為，是自己的功勞為他們贏得了這獨特的特權。迦南人是無可救藥地敗壞的族類，理當滅絕；但歷史記載了許多顯著的事例，神借著同樣敗壞的其他民族來懲治敗壞有罪的國家。神將迦南賜給他們，不是為了以色列人的緣故，而是為了祂自己的緣故，為了向他們敬虔的列祖所立的應許，並為了成就對世界更高更廣的善旨。
英文原文
4-6. Speak not thou in thine heart, . . . saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land--Moses takes special care to guard his countrymen against the vanity of supposing that their own merits had procured them the distinguished privilege. The Canaanites were a hopelessly corrupt race, and deserved extermination; but history relates many remarkable instances in which God punished corrupt and guilty nations by the instrumentality of other people as bad as themselves. It was not for the sake of the Israelites, but for His own sake, for the promise made to their pious ancestors, and in furtherance of high and comprehensive purposes of good to the world, that God was about to give them a grant of Canaan.
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7. 你當記念，不忘記，你在曠野怎樣惹耶和華發怒——為從他們心中除掉任何自恃為義的念頭，摩西重述他們屢次所犯的悖逆和背叛——而且往往是在極其莊嚴可畏的場合中所犯——他們已喪失一切蒙神恩寵的資格。他以坦誠和直率陳述這些指控，百姓又耐心順服地聆聽——這對他們民族品格如此不利的指控——常被引為本書歷史真實性的諸多證據之一。
英文原文
7. Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord--To dislodge from their minds any presumptuous idea of their own righteousness, Moses rehearses their acts of disobedience and rebellion committed so frequently, and in circumstances of the most awful and impressive solemnity, that they had forfeited all claims to the favor of God. The candor and boldness with which he gave, and the patient submission with which the people bore, his recital of charges so discreditable to their national character, has often been appealed to as among the many evidences of the truth of this history.
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8. 你們在何烈山又惹耶和華發怒——更恰當的譯法是"甚至在何烈山"，在那裡人本可以期望他們會有不同的表現。
英文原文
8. Also in Horeb--rather, "even in Horeb," where it might have been expected they would have acted otherwise.
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12-29. 起來，趕快下去，因為你的百姓……已經敗壞了——為要有效地使他們謙卑下來，摩西開始逐一細述他們背道中最惡劣的實例。他先從金牛犢的褻瀆說起——那褻瀆發生之時，他們從埃及奇蹟般的拯救、鄰近山上所彰顯最驚人的神聖威嚴，以及他們剛剛批准的、承諾作神子民的聖約，都還記憶猶新；在此情形下，這背道顯示了幾乎不可置信的反覆和墮落。
英文原文
12-29. Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people . . . have corrupted themselves--With a view to humble them effectually, Moses proceeds to particularize some of the most atrocious instances of their infidelity. He begins with the impiety of the golden calf--an impiety which, while their miraculous emancipation from Egypt, the most stupendous displays of the Divine Majesty that were exhibited on the adjoining mount, and the recent ratification of the covenant by which they engaged to act as the people of God, were fresh in memory, indicated a degree of inconstancy or debasement almost incredible.
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17. 我就拿那兩塊版……在你們眼前摔碎了——不是出於不能自制的忿怒，而是出於義憤，為維護神無玷的榮耀，也是受祂聖靈的感動，藉此表明聖約已被破壞、百姓已被排除在神的恩寵之外。
英文原文
17. I took the two tables, . . . and broke them before your eyes--not in the heat of intemperate passion, but in righteous indignation, from zeal to vindicate the unsullied honor of God, and by the suggestion of His Spirit to intimate that the covenant had been broken, and the people excluded from the divine favor.
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18. 我就在耶和華面前俯伏——這異教狂歡的場面在那敬虔而愛國的領袖心中所引起的突然而痛苦的震撼，難以言表。重大的公開罪惡需要非常的自卑時刻；在他為那可怕的背道所受的深切痛苦中，他似乎保持了一次與以往一樣長久的奇蹟性禁食。
英文原文
18. I fell down before the Lord--The sudden and painful reaction which this scene of pagan revelry produced on the mind of the pious and patriotic leader can be more easily imagined than described. Great and public sins call for seasons of extraordinary humiliation, and in his deep affliction for the awful apostasy, he seems to have held a miraculous fast as long as before.
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20. 耶和華向亞倫甚是發怒，要滅絕他——亞倫因任憑自己被群眾呼聲所淹沒，成了拜偶像之罪的共犯，本要為其有罪的妥協受罰；幸而摩西為他懇切的代求蒙了垂聽。
英文原文
20. The Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him--By allowing himself to be overborne by the tide of popular clamor, Aaron became a partaker in the guilt of idolatry and would have suffered the penalty of his sinful compliance, had not the earnest intercession of Moses on his behalf prevailed.
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21. 我把那牛犢所磨的粉撒在從山上流下來的溪水中——即"那被擊打的磐石"（El Leja），大概緊鄰西奈、或為西奈的一部分。人們常常忽略一點：雖然以色列人在利非訂（Wady Feiran）安營時從這磐石得水供應，聖經記載中卻沒有甚麼能使我們推想那磐石就在該地附近
(參 出 17:5)。
從這被擊打之磐石流出的水，大概就是從山上流下來的那道溪。那水或許從磐石流出許多英里之遠，正如今日阿拉伯石地（Arabia-Petræa）的旱谷中的冬汛一樣
(詩 78:15, 16)。
那磐石或許被擊打於相當的高度、並在一個與西奈諸谷成某種關係的位置，以致能以此方式供應以色列人從何烈經西珥山路和加低斯巴尼亞一路旅程所需的水
(申 1:1, 2)。
基於這一假設，使徒論到"那磐石隨著他們"的比喻性語言
(林前 10:4)
或許有了新的亮光
〔WILSON, Land of the Bible〕。
英文原文
21. I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount--that is, "the smitten rock" (El Leja) which was probably contiguous to, or a part of, Sinai. It is too seldom borne in mind that though the Israelites were supplied with water from this rock when they were stationed at Rephidim (Wady Feiran), there is nothing in the Scripture narrative which should lead us to suppose that the rock was in the immediate neighborhood of that place (see on
Ex 17:5).
The water on this smitten rock was probably the brook that descended from the mount. The water may have flowed at the distance of many miles from the rock, as the winter torrents do now through the wadies of Arabia-Petræa
(Ps 78:15, 16).
And the rock may have been smitten at such a height, and at a spot bearing such a relation to the Sinaitic valleys, as to furnish in this way supplies of water to the Israelites during the journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir and Kadesh-barnea
(De 1:1, 2).
On this supposition new light is, perhaps, cast on the figurative language of the apostle, when he speaks of "the rock following" the Israelites
(1Co 10:4)
[WILSON, Land of the Bible].
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25. 我因耶和華說要滅絕你們，就在耶和華面前照舊俯伏四十晝夜——在列舉各種悖逆之後，他曾提及加低斯巴尼亞的叛亂；驟讀本節，似乎那次叛亂引致摩西第三次而持久地自卑。但將本段與
民 14:5
相比較，這禱告的主題和語氣表明，此處所更詳細描述的，只是第二次的代求
(申 9:18)。
英文原文
25. Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first--After the enumeration of various acts of rebellion, he had mentioned the outbreak at Kadesh-barnea, which, on a superficial reading of this verse, would seem to have led Moses to a third and protracted season of humiliation. But on a comparison of this passage with
Nu 14:5,
the subject and language of this prayer show that only the second act of intercession
(De 9:18)
is now described in fuller detail.
申 9:1-25.
摩西勸阻他們自恃己義的念頭。
1. 今日——意為*這時候。*以色列人已到達應許之地的邊界，卻不得不鎩羽而歸，大感屈辱。但如今他們確然要進去了。沒有任何障礙能阻止他們取得此地；無論是城鎮堅固的防禦，還是探子所描述的那身材高大可畏的居民的抵抗。
又廣大又堅固、高得頂天的城——東方的城市一般佔地遠大於歐洲的城；因為房屋往往相隔甚遠，其間有園子和田地。它們幾乎都有城牆圍繞，牆用燒磚或日曬磚築成，高約四十英尺。東方各階層，尤其是遊牧部落，因不懂工程和炮術，對於攻打有牆之城必定絕望放棄——而那樣的城今天幾小時內就可被攻破。