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Eze 31:1-18.
英文原文
Eze 31:1-18.
THE OVERTHROW OF EGYPT ILLUSTRATED BY THAT OF ASSYRIA.
Not that Egypt was, like Assyria, utterly to cease to be, but it was, like Assyria, to lose its prominence in the empire of the world.
1. third month--two months later than the prophecy delivered in
Eze 30:20.
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2. 你像誰呢——答案是：你像那驕傲的亞述王；他怎樣被迦勒底人傾覆，你也必照樣被同一民族傾覆。
英文原文
2. Whom art thou like--The answer is, Thou art like the haughty king of Assyria; as he was overthrown by the Chaldeans, so shalt thou be by the same.
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3. 他以亞述的驕傲及其隨後的傾覆為例，好讓埃及更清楚知道自己將有何結局。
利巴嫩的香柏樹——往往高達八十英尺，其枝子所覆蓋的直徑更為廣大：對稱完美。比較相似的意象
(Eze 17:3; Da 4:20-22)。
蔭影密佈——遮蔭的密林。
樹尖……在……密枝中——更確切地說〔HENGSTENBERG〕，「在雲中」。但英文版更符合希伯來文。樹尖或頂端的嫩枝代表君王；密枝代表帝國的龐大資源。
英文原文
3. He illustrates the pride and the consequent overthrow of the Assyrian, that Egypt may the better know what she must expect.
cedar in Lebanon--often eighty feet high, and the diameter of the space covered by its boughs still greater: the symmetry perfect. Compare the similar image
(Eze 17:3; Da 4:20-22).
with a shadowing shroud--with an overshadowing thicket.
top . . . among . . . thick boughs--rather [HENGSTENBERG], "among the clouds." But English Version agrees better with the Hebrew. The top, or topmost shoot, represents the king; the thick boughs, the large resources of the empire.
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4. 眾水……小河——底格里斯河及其支流與「溪流」，或灌溉用的「水道」，是亞述肥沃之源。「深水」是源源不絕、從不乾涸的水。隱喻上指亞述的資源，而「水道」指她的殖民地。
英文原文
4. waters . . . little rivers--the Tigris with its branches and "rivulets," or "conduits" for irrigation, the source of Assyria's fertility. "The deep" is the ever flowing water, never dry. Metaphorically, for Assyria's resources, as the "conduits" are her colonies.
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5. 發旺的時候——因滋潤他發旺的豐富水分。但見旁註。
英文原文
5. when he shot forth--because of the abundant moisture which nourished him in shooting forth. But see Margin.
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6. 飛鳥……在枝上搭窩——照樣
Eze 17:23; Da 4:12。
福音的國度要將一切聚攏在其蔭庇之下，為他們的益處和神的榮耀——而世界諸國這樣做是為邪惡和自我擴張
(Mt 13:32)。
英文原文
6. fowls . . . made . . . nests in . . . boughs--so
Eze 17:23; Da 4:12.
The gospel kingdom shall gather all under its covert, for their good and for the glory of God, which the world kingdoms did for evil and for self-aggrandizement
(Mt 13:32).
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8. 香柏樹……不能遮蔽他——不能高過他。沒有別的王蓋過他。
不能與他相比——不能與之相提並論。
神的園——正如推羅的情形
（結二十八13），
應用於亞述王的意象取自伊甸園；這尤為貼切，因為伊甸園是由其後灌溉亞述的河流所滋潤的
（創二10-14）。
這棵香柏樹似乎在自身中復甦了樂園一切的榮美，以致園中沒有一棵樹高過它。
英文原文
8. cedars . . . could not hide him--could not outtop him. No other king eclipsed him.
were not like--were not comparable to.
garden of God--As in the case of Tyre
(Eze 28:13),
the imagery, that is applied to the Assyrian king, is taken from Eden; peculiarly appropriate, as Eden was watered by rivers that afterwards watered Assyria
(Ge 2:10-14).
This cedar seemed to revive in itself all the glories of paradise, so that no tree there outtopped it.
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9. 我……使他——這一切都歸功於我白白的恩典。
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9. I . . . made him--It was all due to My free grace.
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10. 你……他——人稱的轉換是因為這話部分指香柏樹，部分指香柏樹所代表的人。
英文原文
10. thou . . . he--The change of persons is because the language refers partly to the cedar, partly to the person signified by the cedar.
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11. 此處字面取代了比喻。
必照待他的方法待他——照自己的心意，並照亞述人（撒縵以色）所配得的。尼布甲尼撒被稱為「大有能力者」（El，神的名號之一），因為他是神的代表和審判的工具
（但二37-38）。
英文原文
11. Here the literal supersedes the figurative.
shall surely deal with him--according to his own pleasure, and according to the Assyrian's (Sardanapalus) desert. Nebuchadnezzar is called "the mighty one" (El, a name of God), because he was God's representative and instrument of judgment
(Da 2:37, 38).
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12. 從他的蔭下——他們先前在其下居住作為隱蔽之處
（結三十一6）。
英文原文
12. from his shadow--under which they had formerly dwelt as their covert
(Eze 31:6).
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13. 飛鳥和走獸必在他傾倒的樹幹上凌辱戲弄。
英文原文
13. Birds and beasts shall insult over his fallen trunk.
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14. 水旁的樹——即因水而豐盛供應的：資源豐富的國家。
以其高大自尊——即倚靠其高大：站立其上作為信心的根基。FAIRBAIRN 對希伯來文有不同的標點，將「他們的樹」譯為「（使一切喝水的都不能）因自己的（偉大而站立）」。但通常的讀法較好，因為亞述和各盟邦始終被比作堅壯的樹。「一切喝水的」這子句標明了樹「以其高大」為信心的根基——即他們有充足的供應來源。MAURER 保留同樣的希伯來文，譯為「使他們的篤耨香樹也不能以其高大自尊，一切（其他樹木）喝水的也是如此」。
下……地……坑中——
（結三十二18； 詩八十二7）。
英文原文
14. trees by the waters--that is, that are plentifully supplied by the waters: nations abounding in resources.
stand up in their height--that is, trust in their height: stand upon it as their ground of confidence. FAIRBAIRN points the Hebrew differently, so as for "their trees," to translate, "(And that none that drink water may stand) on themselves, (because of their greatness)." But the usual reading is better, as Assyria and the confederate states throughout are compared to strong trees. The clause, "All that drink water," marks the ground of the trees' confidence "in their height," namely, that they have ample sources of supply. MAURER, retaining the same Hebrew, translates, "that neither their terebinth trees may stand up in their height, nor all (the other trees) that drink water."
to . . . nether . . . earth . . . pit--
(Eze 32:18; Ps 82:7).
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15. 遮掩深淵——如舉哀者遮蓋頭部以示哀悼，「我使那滋潤香柏樹的深淵」為他披上哀悼。深淵的水是亞述的附屬民族
（啟十七15）。
昏暗——字面意思是「昏厥」（本身）；比動詞更為有力。
英文原文
15. covered the deep--as mourners cover their heads in token of mourning, "I made the deep that watered the cedar" to wrap itself in mourning for him. The waters of the deep are the tributary peoples of Assyria
(Re 17:15).
fainted--literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb.
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16. 陰間——Sheol 或 Hades，不可見的世界：相當於「我將他投入遺忘之中」（參較
賽 14:9-11）。
得安慰——因為像亞述這樣偉大的王竟被降到與他們同等的地位。在苦難中有同受患難的同伴，這對不幸者而言是一種安慰。
英文原文
16. hell--Sheol or Hades, the unseen world: equivalent to, "I cast him into oblivion" (compare
Isa 14:9-11).
shall be comforted--because so great a king as the Assyrian is brought down to a level with them. It is a kind of consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
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17. 他的膀臂，就是住在他蔭下的人——指那些作他暴政幫兇或工具的人，因而享受他的保護（例如敘利亞及其鄰邦）。這些人必與他同遭命運。比較同樣用語，指住在王保護之下的猶大人
（哀 4:20）；
兩者皆「以肉體為膀臂，心中遠離耶和華」
（耶 17:5）。
英文原文
17. his arm, that dwelt under his shadow--those who were the helpers or tool of his tyranny, and therefore enjoyed his protection (for example, Syria and her neighbors). These were sure to share her fate. Compare the same phrase as to the Jews living under the protection of their king
(La 4:20);
both alike "making flesh their arm, and in heart departing from the Lord"
(Jer 17:5).
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18. 將亞述的比喻性描述應用於埃及的平行個案。「凡論亞述所說的一切，你要當作是對你自己說的。除了亞述之外，你能與誰相比呢？無人可比。」亞述如伊甸般的特權因驕傲與罪惡而被濫用，正如伊甸中第一個人一樣，以毀滅告終，這大規模的教訓將在埃及身上重演。因為不改變的神以同樣不改變的原則治理世界。
你必與……未受割禮的人同臥——割禮既是你嘲弄的對象，你必躺在未受割禮之人中間，為他們的刀劍所殺〔GROTIUS〕。這是同類的報應
（結 28:10）。
這是法老——法老的結局將與我所描繪亞述的結局同樣屈辱。「這」是指示性的，彷彿他用手指著那仆倒在地、供眾人觀看的法老，如同在紅海邊上
（出 14:30, 31）。
英文原文
18. Application of the parabolic description of Assyria to the parallel case of Egypt. "All that has been said of the Assyrian consider as said to thyself. To whom art thou so like, as thou art to the Assyrian? To none." The lesson on a gigantic scale of Eden-like privileges abused to pride and sin by the Assyrian, as in the case of the first man in Eden, ending in ruin, was to be repeated in Egypt's case. For the unchangeable God governs the world on the same unchangeable principles.
thou shall lie in . . . uncircumcised--As circumcision was an object of mocking to thee, thou shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, slain by their sword [GROTIUS]. Retribution in kind
(Eze 28:10).
This is Pharaoh--Pharaoh's end shall be the same humiliating one as I have depicted the Assyrian's to have been. "This" is demonstrative, as if he were pointing with the finger to Pharaoh lying prostrate, a spectacle to all, as on the shore of the Red Sea
(Ex 14:30, 31).
Eze 31:1-18.
以亞述的傾覆說明埃及的傾覆。
這並非說埃及要像亞述一樣完全消亡，而是要像亞述一樣，在世界帝國中失去其顯赫地位。
1. 第三個月——比
Eze 30:20
所傳的預言晚兩個月。