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Ge 7:1-24.
英文原文
Ge 7:1-24.
ENTRANCE INTO THE ARK.
1. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark--The ark was finished; and Noah now, in the spirit of implicit faith, which had influenced his whole conduct, waited for directions from God.
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2, 3. 潔淨的牲畜……飛鳥——除了深海中的居住者以外，每一物種都要取一對，以保存各自的種類。這是一般的准入規則；只是關於那些稱為"潔淨"的動物，無論是牲畜是飛鳥，都要取三對；理由是當地得著更新之後，牠們的迅速繁衍無論作為食物或供人使用，都極為重要。但那第七隻作何用？顯然是保留為獻祭之用；如此一來，無論挪亞在方舟裡居住時，還是他回到乾地之後，都為按墮落之人宗教敬拜的禮儀作了預備。他並不像許多人那樣把宗教丟在身後；他在漫長的航行中為之作了預備。
英文原文
2, 3. Of every clean beast . . . fowls--Pairs of every species of animals, except the tenants of the deep, were to be taken for the preservation of their respective kinds. This was the general rule of admission, only with regard to those animals which are styled "clean," three pairs were to be taken, whether of beasts or birds; and the reason was that their rapid multiplication was a matter of the highest importance, when the earth should be renovated, for their utility either as articles of food or as employed in the service of man. But what was the use of the seventh? It was manifestly reserved for sacrifice; and so that both during Noah's residence in the ark, and after his return to dry land, provision was made for celebrating the rites of worship according to the religion of fallen man. He did not, like many, leave religion behind. He provided for it during his protracted voyage.
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4. 因為再過七天——給世人悔改的一週！何等嚴肅的停頓！他們是否仍然譏笑、嘲弄他的愚拙呢？那位眼看見、心感受到人類罪惡與悖逆之全量的主，已經告訴我們他們是何等輕忽不顧
(Lu 17:27)。
英文原文
4. For yet seven days--A week for a world to repent! What a solemn pause! Did they laugh and ridicule his folly still? He whose eyes saw and whose heart felt the full amount of human iniquity and perverseness has told us of their reckless disregard
(Lu 17:27).
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9. 都是一對一對地進去——無疑地，牠們是由神的感動所引導的。數目不會如人乍看所以為的那麼大。據計算，鳥獸的 distinct 種類不超過三百種，那些在形態、大小、顏色上的巨大變異，都可以追溯到氣候和其他環境的影響。
英文原文
9. There went in two and two--Doubtless they were led by a divine impulse. The number would not be so large as at first sight one is apt to imagine. It has been calculated that there are not more than three hundred distinct species of beasts and birds, the immense varieties in regard to form, size, and color being traceable to the influence of climate and other circumstances.
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16. 耶和華就把他關在裏頭——字面作「四面把他遮蓋」。「把他關在裏頭」表明挪亞已成為神特別看顧和保護的對象，而對外面的人，恩典的時期已經過去了
(Mt 25:10)。
英文原文
16. and the Lord shut him in--literally, "covered him round about." The "shutting him in" intimated that Noah had become the special object of divine care and protection, and that to those without the season of grace was over
(Mt 25:10).
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17. 水勢浩大，把方舟漂起——方舟似乎被逐漸抬起，幾乎不為其中的人所察覺。
英文原文
17. the waters increased, and bare up the ark--It seems to have been raised so gradually as to be scarcely perceptible to its occupants.
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20. 水勢比山高十五肘，山嶺都淹沒了——即高過最高山嶺之巔二十二呎半。這話的措辭與局部洪水之說不能相合。
英文原文
20. Fifteen cubits upward . . . and the mountains were covered--twenty-two and a half feet above the summits of the highest hills. The language is not consistent with the theory of a partial deluge.
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21. 凡有血肉的都死了……飛鳥……牲畜，和……爬物——當審判臨到地上之時，神一切與罪惡對象相連的事物都包括在內，這在神作為中是一貫不變的原則
(Ge 19:25； Ex 9:6)。
再者，如今人類既已縮減為一個家庭，走獸也必須按比例減少；否則牠們必因數量眾多而取得優勢，壓過那些將要重新充滿全地的少數人。於是恩慈與嚴厲相攙雜；耶和華在智慧中施行審判，在怒氣中仍記念憐憫。
英文原文
21. all flesh died . . . fowl . . . cattle, and . . . creeping thing--It has been a uniform principle in the divine procedure, when judgments were abroad on the earth, to include every thing connected with the sinful objects of His wrath
(Ge 19:25; Ex 9:6).
Besides, now that the human race was reduced to one single family, it was necessary that the beasts should be proportionally diminished, otherwise by their numbers they would have acquired the ascendancy and overmastered the few that were to repeople the world. Thus goodness was mingled with severity; the Lord exercises judgment in wisdom and in wrath remembers mercy.
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24. 共一百五十天——即五個月的時間。雖然早在那時之前，所有活物必已盡被淹死，但洪水如此長久持續，乃是要彰顯神對罪與罪人的嚴厲不悅。試想在這樣的危機中挪亞的境況。我們從
(Eze 14:14)
得知，他是一個習慣於在敬虔的氣氛中生活呼吸的人；他既在這種崇高的信心操練中以神為避難所，便不懼怕「水雖匉訇翻騰，山雖因海漲而搖撼」
[詩 46:3]。
英文原文
24. an hundred and fifty days--a period of five months. Though long before that every living creature must have been drowned, such a lengthened continuance of the flood was designed to manifest God's stern displeasure at sin and sinners. Think of Noah during such a crisis. We learn
(Eze 14:14)
that he was a man who lived and breathed habitually in an atmosphere of devotion; and having in the exercise of this high-toned faith made God his refuge, he did not fear "though the waters roared and were troubled; though the mountains shook with the swelling thereof"
[Ps 46:3].
Ge 7:1-24.
進入方舟。
1. 耶和華對挪亞說，你和你的全家都要進入方舟——方舟已經造好；挪亞此刻照著影響他全部行為的那毫不遲疑的信心，等候神的指示。