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Ge 19:1-38.
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Ge 19:1-38.
LOT'S ENTERTAINMENT.
1. there came two angels--most probably two of those that had been with Abraham, commissioned to execute the divine judgment against Sodom.
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom--In Eastern cities it is the market, the seat of justice, of social intercourse and amusement, especially a favorite lounge in the evenings, the arched roof affording a pleasant shade.
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2. 我主啊，請……到……住宿——所提供的，是與
Ge 18:2-8
所描述相同的慷慨款待，這種款待至今在小城鎮仍自發地實行。
他們說，不，我們要在街上住宿——在沒有客店又沒有熟人的地方，旅人在街上裹著外衣睡覺，並非罕見。
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2. turn in, I pray you . . . tarry all night--offer of the same generous hospitalities as described in
Ge 18:2-8,
and which are still spontaneously practised in the small towns.
And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night--Where there are no inns and no acquaintance, it is not uncommon for travellers to sleep in the street wrapped up in their cloaks.
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3. 進了他的房子——當羅得遷到平原之時，他本意是住在帳棚裏，與當地百姓分開
[Ge 13:12]。
但他漸漸被牽引進去，住在城中，他和他的家人藉着姻親關係與城裏的居民連結在一起。
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3. entered into his house--On removing to the plain, Lot intended at first to live in his tent apart from the people
[Ge 13:12].
But he was gradually drawn in, dwelt in the city, and he and his family were connected with the citizens by marriage ties.
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4. 所多瑪人……圍住那房子——這裏給了他們惡行的駭人證據。顯然，不良的交往敗壞了好的品格；否則羅得決不會作出他所行的那樣。
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4. men of Sodom, compassed the house--Appalling proofs are here given of their wickedness. It is evident that evil communications had corrupted good manners; otherwise Lot would never have acted as he did.
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12, 13. 你這裏還有甚麼人嗎？……我們要毀滅這地方——使徒的權威已經宣稱羅得是個「義人」
(2Pe 2:8)，
在本質上是好的，雖然他只滿足於為他所見的罪哀歎，卻沒有按自己的確信行事，沒有把自己和家人從這樣的罪惡淵藪中抽離。但恩惠卻賜給了他：甚至他那些不好的親屬，也為他的緣故得了拯救的應許，這應許卻被譏誚和拒絕
(2Pe 3:4)。
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12, 13. Hast thou here any besides? . . . we will destroy this place--Apostolic authority has declared Lot was "a righteous man"
(2Pe 2:8),
at bottom good, though he contented himself with lamenting the sins that he saw, instead of acting on his own convictions, and withdrawing himself and family from such a sink of corruption. But favor was shown him: and even his bad relatives had, for his sake, an offer of deliverance, which was ridiculed and spurned
(2Pe 3:4).
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15-17. 天使對保全羅得所作的仁慈關切，美好地顯示了出來。但他「遲延」。是因為想到將要失去他多年積蓄的全部財產而悲傷嗎？還是因他那善良的心被那可怖危機的念頭所癱瘓？這是對一種耽延的寬厚解釋，若不是天使友善的催促，這耽延原是致命的。
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15-17. The kindly interest the angels took in the preservation of Lot is beautifully displayed. But he "lingered." Was it from sorrow at the prospect of losing all his property, the acquisition of many years? Or was it that his benevolent heart was paralyzed by thoughts of the awful crisis? This is the charitable way of accounting for a delay that would have been fatal but for the friendly urgency of the angel.
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18, 19. 羅得說……我主啊，不要如此……我不能逃到山上去——何等奇特的信心和勇氣的缺乏，好像那位為營救他而干預的神，不能在山中的荒野保護羅得一樣。
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18, 19. Lot said . . . Oh, not so, my Lord . . . I cannot escape to the mountain--What a strange want of faith and fortitude, as if He who had interfered for his rescue would not have protected Lot in the mountain solitude.
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21. 你看，我在這事上應允了你……這事我也會行——他的請求得了應允，信心的祈禱發生了功效；並要使他從自身的經歷確信：若即時毫無保留地順從神的指示，原是最上算、最穩妥的。
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21. See, I have accepted thee concerning this . . . also--His request was granted him, the prayer of faith availed, and to convince him, from his own experience, that it would have been best and safest at once to follow implicitly the divine directions.
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22. 你要趕快……因為你還沒有到那裏，我不能做甚麼——所多瑪的毀滅要等到他安全了才會施行。神是何等顧念祂的百姓
(Re 7:3)！
這是神對一個雖善良卻軟弱的人所懷之愛，是何等的明證！
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22. Haste . . . for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither--The ruin of Sodom was suspended till he was secure. What care God does take of His people
(Re 7:3)!
What a proof of the love which God bore to a good though weak man!
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24. 耶和華將……硫磺與火從……天上下——神在成就祂的目的時，或直接行動，或間接藉著媒介；我們有充分理由相信，祂傾覆平原諸城所用的是後一種方式——即藉著火山爆發。火與硫磺從天降下，與這個觀點完全相符，因為那些物質被火山的力量拋入空中，便會以火雨的形式落在周圍地區。這見解似乎也得到約伯記的支持
[Job 1:16; 18:15]。
那究竟是奇蹟地產生的，還是神所使用的自然作為，倒不很重要：那是出於神的審判，為懲罰那些罪大惡極之人而預先宣告並命定的。
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24. Then the Lord rained . . . brimstone and fire from . . . heaven--God, in accomplishing His purposes, acts immediately or mediately through the agency of means; and there are strong grounds for believing that it was in the latter way He effected the overthrow of the cities of the plain--that it was, in fact, by a volcanic eruption. The raining down of fire and brimstone from heaven is perfectly accordant with this idea since those very substances, being raised into the air by the force of the volcano, would fall in a fiery shower on the surrounding region. This view seems countenanced by Job
[Job 1:16; 18:15].
Whether it was miraculously produced, or the natural operation employed by God, it is not of much consequence to determine: it was a divine judgment, foretold and designed for the punishment of those who were sinners exceedingly.
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26. 羅得有妻子和兩個女兒相隨。但他妻子卻遲延了——是出於不能抑制的好奇心，還是感情的激動，或是要回去搶救甚麼東西，我們不得而知；她既不順從那臨別的勸戒——「不可回頭看，也不可在平原上停留」
[Ge 19:17]，
熔岩的洪流便將她淹沒，使她成了自己怠惰或罪惡冒失的犧牲品。
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26. Lot was accompanied by his wife and two daughters. But whether it was from irresistible curiosity or perturbation of feeling, or that she was about to return to save something, his wife lingered, and while thus disobeying the parting counsel, "to look not back, nor stay in all the plain"
[Ge 19:17],
the torrent of liquid lava enveloped her so that she became the victim of her supine indolence or sinful rashness.
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27. 亞伯拉罕清早起來等——此時亞伯拉罕在幔利，靠近希伯崙；去年有一位旅行者證實了本段經文的真確性。「從俯瞰希伯崙、先祖曾站立的高地，今日的觀察者向死海方向望去，眼前展開一片廣闊的視野。從平原升起的煙雲，今日希伯崙的人可以看見；因此神毀滅所多瑪的那個早晨，亞伯拉罕望向所多瑪之時也必能看見。」[HACKETT]。
那景象必然可畏，聖經中屢屢提及
(De 29:23； Isa 13:19； Jude 7)。
「如今為鹽海（死海）所覆蓋的平原，從湖北端與南端水底的高度差——南端十三呎，北端一千三百呎——可以看出南端是近期形成的，在諸城傾覆之時才被淹沒。」[LYNCH]。
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27. Abraham gat up early in the morning, &c.--Abraham was at this time in Mamre, near Hebron, and a traveller last year verified the truth of this passage. "From the height which overlooks Hebron, where the patriarch stood, the observer at the present day has an extensive view spread out before him towards the Dead Sea. A cloud of smoke rising from the plain would be visible to a person at Hebron now, and could have been, therefore, to Abraham as he looked toward Sodom on the morning of its destruction by God" [HACKETT]. It must have been an awful sight, and is frequently alluded to in Scripture
(De 29:23; Isa 13:19; Jude 7).
"The plain which is now covered by the Salt or Dead Sea shows in the great difference of level between the bottoms of the northern and southern ends of the lake--the latter being thirteen feet and the former thirteen hundred--that the southern end was of recent formation, and submerged at the time of the fall of the cities" [LYNCH].
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29. 神毀滅諸城的時候等——這段記載在那樣痛心的故事之後，最為可喜、最具教益。它表明：神若對惡人是「吞滅的火」
[De 4:24； Heb 12:29]，
對義人祂卻是朋友。祂「記念」了亞伯拉罕的代求；祂既如此，豈不也要記念那位比亞伯拉罕更大者為我們所作的代求？這應當給我們何等的確據。
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29. when God destroyed the cities, &c.--This is most welcome and instructive after so painful a narrative. It shows if God is a "consuming fire" to the wicked
[De 4:24; Heb 12:29],
He is the friend of the righteous. He "remembered" the intercessions of Abraham, and what confidence should not this give us that He will remember the intercessions of a greater than Abraham in our behalf.
Ge 19:1-38.
羅得接待天使。
1. 兩個天使到了——很可能是先前與亞伯拉罕同在的兩位中的，被差來執行神對所多瑪的審判。
羅得正坐在所多瑪城門口——在東方城市中，城門口是市集、法庭、社交往來和娛樂的所在，尤其是傍晚受人喜愛的休憩處，拱形的頂蓋提供涼快的蔭蔽。