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Ge 11:1-32.
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Ge 11:1-32.
CONFUSION OF TONGUES.
1. the whole earth was of one language. The descendants of Noah, united by the strong bond of a common language, had not separated, and notwithstanding the divine command to replenish the earth, were unwilling to separate. The more pious and well-disposed would of course obey the divine will; but a numerous body, seemingly the aggressive horde mentioned
(Ge 10:10),
determined to please themselves by occupying the fairest region they came to.
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2. 示拿地——幼發拉底河與底格里斯河所澆灌的肥沃谷地，被選為他們聯合的中心與權力的所在。
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2. land of Shinar--The fertile valley watered by the Euphrates and Tigris was chosen as the center of their union and the seat of their power.
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3. 磚——那一帶沒有石頭，因此磚是、也曾是唯一用作建築的材料，這從畢爾斯寧錄那一大堆廢墟中可以看出，那可能就是那些古時叛徒所建的城。這些磚有些是日曬的——有些是在窯中燒的，顏色各異。
漆——瀝青，一種礦物瀝青，硬化後成為堅固的黏合劑，至今在亞述仍被普遍使用，也是古時燒磚廢墟上所見之灰漿的成分。
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3. brick--There being no stone in that quarter, brick is, and was, the only material used for building, as appears in the mass of ruins which at the Birs Nimroud may have been the very town formed by those ancient rebels. Some of these are sun-dried--others burnt in the kiln and of different colors.
slime--bitumen, a mineral pitch, which, when hardened, forms a strong cement, commonly used in Assyria to this day, and forming the mortar found on the burnt brick remains of antiquity.
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4. 一座塔，塔頂通天——這是表示極高的一種常見修辭
(De 1:28; 9:1-6)。
免得我們分散——建造一座城和一座鎮本身並不是罪；但這樣做是為要藉着企圖阻止遷移來破壞天上的旨意，便是愚昧的、邪惡的、也是理當惹神發怒的。
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4. a tower whose top may reach unto heaven--a common figurative expression for great height
(De 1:28; 9:1-6).
lest we be scattered--To build a city and a town was no crime; but to do this to defeat the counsels of heaven by attempting to prevent emigration was foolish, wicked, and justly offensive to God.
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6. 如今沒有甚麼能擋住他們了——這顯然是承認那計劃是可行的，若沒有神的干預，便會被付諸實行。
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6. and now nothing will be restrained from them--an apparent admission that the design was practicable, and would have been executed but for the divine interposition.
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7. 變亂他們的口音——字面作「他們的嘴唇」；這是發音上的失敗，造成了只有同族的人才能聽懂的方言差異。神就這樣輕易地挫敗了他們的目的，並迫使他們分散，正是他們本想合力防止的分散。我們只有從聖經才能得知世上各國各族和各種語言的真正起源。藉着一次方言的神蹟，人被分散，並逐漸偏離了真宗教。藉着另一次，國族的壁壘被打破——為要使萬人都被帶回神的家中。
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7. confound their language--literally, "their lip"; it was a failure in utterance, occasioning a difference in dialect which was intelligible only to those of the same tribe. Thus easily by God their purpose was defeated, and they were compelled to the dispersion they had combined to prevent. It is only from the Scriptures we learn the true origin of the different nations and languages of the world. By one miracle of tongues men were dispersed and gradually fell from true religion. By another, national barriers were broken down--that all men might be brought back to the family of God.
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28. 吾珥——今稱奧爾法（Orfa），意為「光」或「火」。其名大概是因獻於拜火的禮儀而得。他拉和他全家與其餘居民一樣，都染上了那種偶像崇拜
(Jos 24:15)。
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28. Ur--now Orfa; that is, "light," or "fire." Its name probably derived from its being devoted to the rites of fire-worship. Terah and his family were equally infected with that idolatry as the rest of the inhabitants
(Jos 24:15).
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31. 兒婦撒萊——與以斯加
[Ge 11:29]
是同一個人，是他拉的孫女，大概是他拉第二個妻子所生，按古時的風俗，可以嫁給她的叔伯亞伯蘭。
他們到了哈蘭——在吾珥以南偏東兩日的路程，正當通往拉卡（Rakka）幼發拉底河渡口的大道上，是通往巴勒斯坦最近、最方便的路線。
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31. Sarai his daughter-in-law--the same as Iscah
[Ge 11:29],
granddaughter of Terah, probably by a second wife, and by early usages considered marriageable to her uncle, Abraham.
they came unto Haran--two days' journey south-southeast from Ur, on the direct road to the ford of the Euphrates at Rakka, the nearest and most convenient route to Palestine.
Ge 11:1-32.
口音的變亂。
1. 那時，天下人的口音、言語都是一樣。 挪亞的後裔因共同語言這一強大紐帶而聯合，並未分散；他們不顧神叫他們遍滿地面的命令，不願分散。當然，那些更敬虔、性情更善良的人會順服神的旨意；但一大群人——似乎是
(Ge 10:10)
所提到的那支好侵略的群眾——決定要自行其是，佔據他們所到的最美好之地。