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Ge 9:1-7.
英文原文
Ge 9:1-7.
COVENANT.
1. And God blessed Noah--Here is republished the law of nature that was announced to Adam, consisting as it originally did of several parts.
Be fruitful, &c.--The first part relates to the transmission of life, the original blessing being reannounced in the very same words in which it had been promised at first
[Ge 1:28].
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2. 凡地上的走獸……都必驚恐，懼怕你們——第二部分重新建立人對低等動物的統治；這統治如今不是如起初那樣建立在愛和恩慈之上，而是建立在恐懼之上；這種對人的畏懼存在於動物族中無論強弱的一切成員之中，使除了供他使用的以外，一切都遠離他的居所。
英文原文
2. And the fear of you and the dread of you--The second part re-establishes man's dominion over the inferior animals; it was now founded not as at first in love and kindness, but in terror; this dread of man prevails among all the stronger as well as the weaker members of the animal tribes and keeps away from his haunts all but those employed in his service.
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3. 凡活着的動物，都可以作你們的食物——第三部分論到維持生命的方法；人似乎是頭一次被允許使用動物作食物，但這許可是帶着一個限制的。
英文原文
3. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you--The third part concerns the means of sustaining life; man was for the first time, it would seem, allowed the use of animal food, but the grant was accompanied with one restriction.
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4. 惟獨肉……帶着血……你們不可吃——這禁令的唯一目的，是要防止那些吃活物之肉的食人獸性泛濫，這是人在世界早期容易陷入的。
英文原文
4. But flesh . . . the blood . . . shall ye not eat--The sole intention of this prohibition was to prevent these excesses of cannibal ferocity in eating flesh of living animals, to which men in the earlier ages of the world were liable.
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5. 我必討流你們血之罪——第四部分確立了一項為要保護生命的新權力——即設立民事官長
(Ro 13:4)，
賦予其公開而官方的權威，以壓制暴力和罪行的發生。這樣的權力在先祖社會中從未存在過。
英文原文
5. surely your blood of your lives will I require--The fourth part establishes a new power for protecting life--the institution of the civil magistrate
(Ro 13:4),
armed with public and official authority to repress the commission of violence and crime. Such a power had not previously existed in patriarchal society.
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6. 凡流人血的……因為神造人是照自己的形像造的——固然，那形像因墮落已受損，卻沒有喪失。從這觀點看，每一個人，即使是最貧窮、最卑微的人，其生命也被賦予極高的價值，而毀滅人的生命便牽涉到可怕的罪責。
英文原文
6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood . . . for in the image of God made he man--It is true that image has been injured by the fall, but it is not lost. In this view, a high value is attached to the life of every man, even the poorest and humblest, and an awful criminality is involved in the destruction of it.
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Ge 9:8-29.
Ge 9:8-29.
彩虹。
英文原文
Ge 9:8-29.
RAINBOW.
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13. 我把虹放在雲彩中——放，即設立或指定。這尋常而熟悉的現象既被作為和平的憑據，當雨水開始降下時，它的出現便會以最活潑的喜樂之情被迎接。
英文原文
13. I do set my bow in the cloud--set, that is, constitute or appoint. This common and familiar phenomenon being made the pledge of peace, its appearance when showers began to fall would be welcomed with the liveliest feelings of joy.
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20. 挪亞……栽了一個葡萄園——挪亞大概自幼受過土壤耕作的訓練，離開方舟後便恢復了那職業。
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20. And Noah . . . planted a vineyard--Noah had been probably bred to the culture of the soil, and resumed that employment on leaving the ark.
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21. 他喝了園中的酒便醉了——也許是在葡萄收穫季節的宴樂中。像挪亞這樣極敬虔之人，其品格上唯一這處污點，據信必是因年邁或不慎所致。
英文原文
21. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken--perhaps at the festivities of the vintage season. This solitary stain on the character of so eminently pious a man must, it is believed, have been the result of age or inadvertency.
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24. 這事件大概不會在洪水之後二十年以前發生；因為迦南——他的行為比他父親更為冒犯——是那次事件之後才出生的。這幾節之間很可能包含一段長長的間隔；這預言如同雅各對他眾子的預言一樣，大概直到挪亞臨終、預言的靈降在他身上時才發出；他死期隨後立即被提及，更增強了這項推測。
英文原文
24. This incident could scarcely have happened till twenty years after the flood; for Canaan, whose conduct was more offensive than that even of his father, was not born till after that event. It is probable that there is a long interval included between these verses and that this prophecy, like that of Jacob on his sons, was not uttered till near the close of Noah's life when the prophetic spirit came upon him; this presumption is strengthened by the mention of his death immediately after.
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25. 迦南當受咒詛——這咒詛已應驗於迦南人的滅亡、埃及的衰敗，以及含的後裔非洲人的被奴役。
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25. Cursed be Canaan--This doom has been fulfilled in the destruction of the Canaanites--in the degradation of Egypt and the slavery of the Africans, the descendants of Ham.
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26. 耶和華閃的神是應當稱頌的——更恰當地說：「閃是蒙耶和華我神賜福的」——這暗示閃的後裔要在事奉真神的事上特別得著尊榮，祂的教會長久設立在他們（猶太人）中間，並且基督按肉體說也是從他們出來的。他們取得了迦南為業——那地的居民或因被征服，或如基遍人那樣因歸順
[Jos 9:25]，
作了他們的「僕人」。
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26. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem--rather, "Blessed of Jehovah, my God, be Shem,"--an intimation that the descendants of Shem should be peculiarly honored in the service of the true God, His Church being for ages established among them (the Jews), and of them, concerning the flesh, Christ came. They got possession of Canaan, the people of that land being made their "servants" either by conquest, or, like the Gibeonites, by submission
[Jos 9:25].
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27. 神必使雅弗擴張——指後裔與產業的廣大增長。果然，他的後裔最為活躍進取，遍佈世界最好最大的部分——整個歐洲和亞洲相當大的一部分。
他必住在閃的帳棚裏——今日正在應驗的預言：英國政府在印度建立，盎格魯撒克遜人從歐洲到印度、從印度到美洲大陸都佔優勢。短短幾節經文之中，何等奇妙的預言
(Isa 46:10； 1Pe 1:25)！
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27. God shall enlarge Japheth--pointing to a vast increase in posterity and possessions. Accordingly his descendants have been the most active and enterprising, spread over the best and largest portion of the world, all Europe and a considerable part of Asia.
he shall dwell in the tents of Shem--a prophecy being fulfilled at the present day, as in India British Government is established and the Anglo-Saxons being in the ascendancy from Europe to India, from India over the American continent. What a wonderful prophecy in a few verses
(Isa 46:10; 1Pe 1:25)!
Ge 9:1-7.
立約。
1. 神賜福給挪亞——在此重新頒布了向亞當宣布的自然律；這律原本由幾部分組成。
你們要生養眾多，等等——第一部分關乎生命的傳遞，原先的祝福以最初應許時完全相同的話再次宣告
[Ge 1:28]。