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Ge 20:1-18.
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Ge 20:1-18.
ABRAHAM'S DENIAL OF HIS WIFE.
1. Abraham journeyed from thence . . . and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur--Leaving the encampment, he migrated to the southern border of Canaan. In the neighborhood of Gerar was a very rich and well-watered pasture land.
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2. 亞伯拉罕稱他的妻撒拉為妹子——對所處之人的恐懼，誘使他含糊其辭。他的行為當受高度責備。這是欺騙，是深思熟慮、蓄意而為——並沒有突然的壓力臨到他——這是同類過犯中的第二次〔參
Ge 12:13 注釋〕——這是對神的不信，各方面都令人驚奇，而且可能對周圍的異教徒產生有害的影響。其為害之勢不久便顯露出來。
亞比米勒（父王）……差人把撒拉取了去——作他的妻子之一，這是東方君王所要求的特權，前已說明（參
Ge 12:15 注釋）。
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2. Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister--Fear of the people among whom he was, tempted him to equivocate. His conduct was highly culpable. It was deceit, deliberate and premeditated--there was no sudden pressure upon him--it was the second offense of the kind [see on
Ge 12:13]
--it was a distrust of God every way surprising, and it was calculated to produce injurious effects on the heathen around. Its mischievous tendency was not long in being developed.
Abimelech (father-king) . . . sent and took Sarah--to be one of his wives, in the exercise of a privilege claimed by Eastern sovereigns, already explained (see on
Ge 12:15).
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3. 但夜間神來在夢中對亞比米勒——在古時，夢常被用作傳達重要真理的媒介；這方法也是為了保護撒拉而被採用。
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3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream--In early times a dream was often made the medium of communicating important truths; and this method was adopted for the preservation of Sarah.
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9. 亞比米勒召了亞伯拉罕來，對他說……你作了甚麼事呢？——先祖如今出現在一個何等令人羞愧的境地——他，一個真神的僕人，竟被一個外邦君王責備。誰不寧願處在亞比米勒的地位，而不願處在那尊貴卻可悲地犯罪的先祖的地位呢！王的態度何等端莊——平靜而公正地責備先祖的罪，卻尊重他的身分，並以豐厚的禮物厚待他，如同把炭火堆在他的頭上。
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9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said . . . What hast thou done?--In what a humiliating plight does the patriarch now appear--he, a servant of the true God, rebuked by a heathen prince. Who would not rather be in the place of Abimelech than of the honored but sadly offending patriarch! What a dignified attitude is that of the king--calmly and justly reproving the sin of the patriarch, but respecting his person and heaping coals of fire on his head by the liberal presents made to him.
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11. 亞伯拉罕說……我心裏說，這地方總沒有敬畏神的——從所多瑪的可怕罪行，他似乎有了這樣的印象，以為迦南其餘各城都同樣敗壞。敬畏神的人也許寥寥無幾或根本沒有，但當屬世之人比真敬拜者表現出更高的榮譽感和對罪行更深的厭惡時，這是何等可悲的事！
英文原文
11. And Abraham said . . . I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place--From the horrible vices of Sodom he seems to have taken up the impression that all other cities of Canaan were equally corrupt. There might have been few or none who feared God, but what a sad thing when men of the world show a higher sense of honor and a greater abhorrence of crimes than a true worshipper!
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12. 她也實在是我的妹子——（見
Ge 11:31
的註釋）。亞伯拉罕所作的辯護何等薄弱。這話雖然使他免除了直接而絕對說謊的指控，他卻說了道德上的謊言，因為其中有欺騙的意圖（參
Ge 12:11-13）。
「誠實總是上策。」亞伯拉罕的生命即使沒有這詭計，也會同樣得到保護：而多少對自己的羞辱、對神的不信、對宗教的羞辱，本是可以避免的！「各人與鄰舍說誠實話」
[Zec 8:16； Eph 4:25]。
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12. yet indeed she is my sister--(See on
Ge 11:31).
What a poor defense Abraham made. The statement absolved him from the charge of direct and absolute falsehood, but he had told a moral untruth because there was an intention to deceive (compare
Ge 12:11-13).
"Honesty is always the best policy." Abraham's life would have been as well protected without the fraud as with it: and what shame to himself, what distrust to God, what dishonor to religion might have been prevented! "Let us speak truth every man to his neighbor"
[Zec 8:16; Eph 4:25].
Ge 20:1-18.
亞伯拉罕否認自己的妻子。
1. 亞伯拉罕從那裡向南地遷去……寄居在加低斯和書珥中間——他離開了營地，遷到迦南的南界。基拉耳附近有極豐美、水源充足的牧場。