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Ge 5:1-32.
英文原文
Ge 5:1-32.
GENEALOGY OF THE PATRIARCHS.
1. book of the generations--(See
Ge 11:4).
Adam--used here either as the name of the first man, or of the human race generally.
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5. 亞當共活了的……所有日子——這個譜系中最顯著的特色，是亞當和他直接後裔的長壽。這裏列出了十位
(Ge 5:5-32)，
依次相承，其壽數遠超我們所熟悉的通常界限——最短的是三百六十五歲
[Ge 5:23]，
最長的是九百六十九歲
[Ge 5:27]。
究竟是否有、以及有甚麼次要原因促成了這長壽——強健的體質、飲食的性質、氣候的溫度和有益健康；或者，最後——既然這名單只包括真正敬拜神的人——他們的高齡是否由於對情慾較好的節制和生活的平靜安穩，追問這些是無用的。我們既不能在這些方面得到滿意的證據，便當明智地把這事歸於神的主權旨意。然而，我們可以追溯在早期護理的安排中，這事所服事的一些重要用途。它是保留對神的認識、宗教的偉大真理，以及真敬虔之影響的主要手段。因此，既然他們的知識是藉着傳統獲得的，他們便能在最純淨的狀態中將其保存。
英文原文
5. all the days . . . Adam lived--The most striking feature in this catalogue is the longevity of Adam and his immediate descendants. Ten are enumerated
(Ge 5:5-32)
in direct succession whose lives far exceed the ordinary limits with which we are familiar--the shortest being three hundred sixty-five,
[Ge 5:23]
and the longest nine hundred sixty-nine years
[Ge 5:27].
It is useless to inquire whether and what secondary causes may have contributed to this protracted longevity--vigorous constitutions, the nature of their diet, the temperature and salubrity of the climate; or, finally--as this list comprises only the true worshippers of God--whether their great age might be owing to the better government of their passions and the quiet, even tenor of their lives. Since we cannot obtain satisfactory evidence on these points, it is wise to resolve the fact into the sovereign will of God. We can, however, trace some of the important uses to which, in the early economy of Providence, it was subservient. It was the chief means of reserving a knowledge of God, of the great truths of religion, as well as the influence of genuine piety. So that, as their knowledge was obtained by tradition, they would be in a condition to preserve it in the greatest purity.
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21. 以諾……生了瑪土撒拉——這名的意思是「他死後，那事便要差來」，因此以諾以此作為洪水的預言而給他起名。據推算，瑪土撒拉正是死於洪水那一年。
英文原文
21. Enoch . . . begat Methuselah--This name signifies, "He dieth, and the sending forth," so that Enoch gave it as prophetical of the flood. It is computed that Methuselah died in the year of that catastrophe.
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24. 以諾與神同行——東方各國用以表示經常而親密交往的常用語。
神把他取去，他就不在了——在
Heb 11:5
我們得知他是被接升天的——這是為成就普通教導所未能達成的目的而行的重大奇蹟，在一個幾乎普遍不信的世代中，以具體可見的證據證明他所傳的教訓
(Jude 14, 15)
是真的，也證明他在反對之中對神與義之道的專一忠誠，深蒙神的喜悅。
英文原文
24. And Enoch walked with God--a common phrase in Eastern countries denoting constant and familiar intercourse.
was not; for God took him--In
Heb 11:5,
we are informed that he was translated to heaven--a mighty miracle, designed to effect what ordinary means of instruction had failed to accomplish, gave a palpable proof to an age of almost universal unbelief that the doctrines which he had taught
(Jude 14, 15)
were true and that his devotedness to the cause of God and righteousness in the midst of opposition was highly pleasing to the mind of God.
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26. 瑪土撒拉生了拉麥——與前一章
[Ge 4:18]
所提的同名者不同。
然而他與那位同名者一樣，也在挪亞出生時以詩歌體說話——「挪亞」即「安息」或「安慰」
[Ge 5:29, 旁註]。
「這典故無疑是指墮落在地上勞苦與患難中所受的刑罰後果，以及因賜予夏娃的應許而激發的對拯救者的盼望。這期望之建立在神的啟示上，我們從它所附的重要性和那肯定的表達方式可以推知。」[PETER SMITH]。
英文原文
26. Lamech--a different person from the one mentioned in the preceding chapter
[Ge 4:18].
Like his namesake, however, he also spoke in numbers on occasion of the birth of Noah--that is, "rest" or "comfort"
[Ge 5:29,
Margin].
"The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the penal consequences of the fall in earthly toils and sufferings, and to the hope of a Deliverer, excited by the promise made to Eve. That this expectation was founded on a divine communication we infer from the importance attached to it and the confidence of its expression" [PETER SMITH].
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32. 挪亞五百歲……生了——他和其他先祖在生子之前已年事高邁，這項難題大概是因為摩西在此並未記錄他們的長子，而只記錄了從亞當經塞特到亞伯拉罕的世系。
英文原文
32. Noah was five hundred years old: and . . . begat--That he and the other patriarchs were advanced in life before children were born to them is a difficulty accounted for probably from the circumstance that Moses does not here record their first-born sons, but only the succession from Adam through Seth to Abraham.
Ge 5:1-32.
先祖的家譜。
1. 後代的家譜——（見
Ge 11:4）。
亞當——在此或作為第一個人的名字，或指人類整體。