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Joh 9:1-41.
英文原文
Joh 9:1-41.
THE OPENING OF THE EYES OF ONE BORN BLIND, AND WHAT FOLLOWED ON IT.
1-5. as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from birth--and who "sat begging"
(Joh 9:8).
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2. 是誰犯了罪？是這人呢？是他父母呢？是他生來瞎眼——不是指前世的狀態（關於惡人，猶太人並不相信有前世）；而是或許寬泛地表示罪在某處必定是這災禍的原因。
英文原文
2. who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind--not in a former state of existence, in which, as respects the wicked, the Jews did not believe; but, perhaps, expressing loosely that sin somewhere had surely been the cause of this calamity.
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3. 也不是這人等——原因既不在他自己，也不在他父母，而是為了在他得醫治上顯明「神的作為」。
英文原文
3. Neither . . . this man, &c.--The cause was neither in himself nor his parents, but, in order to the manifestation of "the works of God," in his cure.
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4. 趁著白日，我必須做那差我來者的工等等——這是出自基督口中一段極有意義的話；表明：（一）祂在世上有一項明確的工作要做，每一細節都已為祂安排妥當；（二）祂在地上所做的一切正是「神的工」——特別是「行善」，雖然不僅限於神蹟；（三）可以說，在祂的教導計畫中，每一項工作都有其明確的時間與地點；因此，（四）既然祂的工作期有明確的終結，那麼任何一項服事若錯過了所分配的時間，整個計畫就會被打亂、受損，並被推遲至預定完成期之後；（五）作為人，祂始終在這些考慮的推動下行事——「黑夜將到，沒有人（或譯：沒有人能）做工。」這裡為他人有何等的功課，又有何等從這榜樣而來的激勵！
英文原文
4. I must work the works of him that sent me, &c.--a most interesting statement from the mouth of Christ; intimating, (1) that He had a precise work to do upon earth, with every particular of it arranged and laid out to Him; (2) that all He did upon earth was just "the works of God"--particularly "going about doing good," though not exclusively by miracles; (3) that each work had its precise time and place in His programme of instructions, so to speak; hence, (4) that as His period for work had definite termination, so by letting any one service pass by its allotted time, the whole would be disarranged, marred, and driven beyond its destined period for completion; (5) that He acted ever under the impulse of these considerations, as man--"the night cometh when no man (or no one) can work." What lessons are here for others, and what encouragement from such Example!
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5. 我在世上的時候，是世上的光——並不是說此後祂就不再是光；而是祂在世上生涯持續期間，必須藉著彰顯祂的榮耀來充分證明祂的信實。「正如在拉撒路復活之前
（約11:25）
祂宣告自己是復活與生命，如今祂也把自己表明為那原始屬靈之光的源頭，而即將賜予的自然之光只是其衍生與象徵」〔ALFORD〕。
英文原文
5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world--not as if He would cease, after that, to be so; but that He must make full proof of His fidelity while His earthly career lasted by displaying His glory. "As before the raising of Lazarus
(Joh 11:25),
He announces Himself as the Resurrection and the Life, so now He sets Himself forth as the source of the archetypal spiritual light, of which the natural, now about to be conferred, is only a derivation and symbol" [ALFORD].
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6、7. 祂吐唾沫在地上，用唾沫和泥……抹在瞎子的眼睛上——這些動作在其性質上並不如表面看來那樣不協調，雖然若想像它們對隨後的果效有絲毫貢獻，便是荒謬的。（參
可6:13，
並參
約7:33
的註釋。）
英文原文
6, 7. he spat on the ground, and made clay . . . and he anointed the eyes of the blind man--These operations were not so incongruous in their nature as might appear, though it were absurd to imagine that they contributed in the least degree to the effect which followed. (See
Mr 6:13
and see on
Joh 7:33.)
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7. 你去在西羅亞池子裡洗……奉差遣等等——（參
王下5:10、14）。
既然所吩咐的動作在其設計上純粹是象徵性的，傳福音者便在此連結中注意到那池子象徵性的名字，因在這情況下它為那位被差遣來做它所象徵之事的那位作見證。（參
賽8:6，
那裡這同一個池子被比喻性地用來指「使神的城歡喜的河」，這河雖然卑微，卻表明以色列的神現今與他們同在。）
英文原文
7. Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, . . . Sent, &c.--(See
2Ki 5:10, 14).
As the prescribed action was purely symbolical in its design, so in connection with it the Evangelist notices the symbolical name of the pool as in this case bearing testimony to him who was sent to do what it only symbolized. (See
Isa 8:6,
where this same pool is used figuratively to denote "the streams that make glad the city of God," and which, humble though they be, betoken a present God of Israel.)
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8-15. 鄰舍和……說：這不是那從前坐著討飯的人嗎？——這裡有若干細節，用以辨認這個剛得看見的人就是那為人所熟知、長久以來瞎眼的乞丐。
英文原文
8-15. The neighbours therefore . . . said, Is not this he that sat and begged--Here are a number of details to identify the newly seeing with the long-known blind beggar.
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13. 他們把……帶到法利賽人那裡——可能正坐在公會中，且主要是那個教派的人
（約7:47、48）。
英文原文
13. They brought to the Pharisees--sitting probably in council, and chiefly of that sect
(Joh 7:47, 48).
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16、17. 這個人不是從神來的等等——（參
約5:9；
約5:16
的註釋。）
又有人說等等——如尼哥底母和約瑟。
英文原文
16, 17. This man is not of God, &c.--(See on
Joh 5:9;
Joh 5:16).
Others said, &c.--such as Nicodemus and Joseph.
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17. 瞎子……說：他是個先知——正確地將這神蹟視為祂先知使命的「記號」。
英文原文
17. the blind man . . . said, He is a prophet--rightly viewing the miracle as but a "sign" of His prophetic commission.
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18-23. 猶太人不信……他是生來瞎眼的……直到他們叫了那得到醫治之人的父母來——他們被那年輕人自己的見證所挫敗，便希望能藉著盤問他的父母來質疑事實。父母察覺所設的網羅，便巧妙地逃避，只為他們兒子的身分和他生來瞎眼作見證，至於醫治則留給他自己——一個勝任的見證人——去說。然而，他們在說「不知道是誰開了他的眼睛」時是在支吾，因為「他們怕猶太人」，後者已經達成諒解（可能在
約7:50
等等所記的事之後；但此時已為人所熟知）：凡承認祂是基督的，都要被趕出會堂——即不僅僅是被排除，而是被逐出教門。
英文原文
18-23. the Jews did not believe . . . he had been born blind . . . till they called the parents of him that had received his sight--Foiled by the testimony of the young man himself, they hope to throw doubt on the fact by close questioning his parents, who, perceiving the snare laid for them, ingeniously escape it by testifying simply to the identity of their son, and his birth-blindness, leaving it to himself, as a competent witness, to speak as to the cure. They prevaricated, however, in saying they "knew not who had opened his eyes," for "they feared the Jews," who had come to an understanding (probably after what is recorded,
Joh 7:50,
&c.; but by this time well known), that whoever owned Him as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue--that is, not simply excluded, but excommunicated.
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24-34. 你該將榮耀歸給神，我們知道這個人是個罪人——他們並不要他承認自己身上行了神蹟（即便這承認是為了讚美神），而是要他體貼神的尊榮，過於將這樣的事歸於一個罪人。
英文原文
24-34. Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner--not wishing him to own, even to the praise of God, that a miracle had been wrought upon him, but to show more regard to the honor of God than ascribe any such act to one who was a sinner.
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25. 他回答說：祂是不是個罪人，我不知道——這並不是說那人有意暗示自己在「祂是罪人」這一點上有什麼懷疑，而是因為他在這事上的意見對別人無關緊要，所以他只願就自己親身經歷所知道的事實來說話。
英文原文
25. He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, &c.--Not that the man meant to insinuate any doubt in his own mind on the point of His being "a sinner," but as his opinion on such a point would be of no consequence to others, he would speak only to what he knew as fact in his own case.
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26. 他們……就說：祂向祢做了什麼？——他們指望藉著重複盤問來使他落入圈套，但這少年人卻綽綽有餘地應付他們。
英文原文
26. Then said they . . . again, What did he to thee? &c.--hoping by repeated questions to ensnare him, but the youth is more than a match for them.
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27. 我方才告訴你們……你們也要作祂的門徒嗎？——他以尖銳的諷刺口吻，把他們的盤問當作出於焦切慕道者、幾乎要作門徒的人！他們被這話刺痛，便反唇相譏，視他為門徒（這一點他們顯然沒有錯）；至於他們自己，則退回到摩西那裡——關於摩西沒有什麼可懷疑的；但這個暴發戶是誰，有誰知道呢？
英文原文
27. I have told you already . . . will ye also be his disciples?--In a vein of keen irony he treats their questions as those of anxious inquirers, almost ready for discipleship! Stung by this, they retort upon him as the disciple (and here they plainly were not wrong); for themselves, they fall back upon Moses; about him there could be no doubt; but who knew about this upstart?
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30. 那人回答說：祂開了我的眼睛，你們竟不知道祂從哪裡來，這真是奇怪！——他本不必再多說一句話；但他在為恩人辯護上越發勇敢，他的見解也因所需的勇氣而越發明朗，他便質問他們，怎能假裝不能判斷一個開了生來瞎眼之人的眼睛者，到底是「出於神」還是「是個罪人」——是從上頭來還是從下頭來——並以非凡的能力開始與他們辯論這事。他的論證如此不可抗拒，以致他們的怒氣爆發為一篇充滿法利賽精神的話：「你全然生在罪中，還敢教訓我們嗎？」——你這個出身卑賤、未受教養、膽大妄為的少年人，竟敢教訓我們這些受過訓練、被設立、被公認為百姓在神之事上的引導者！可恥！
英文原文
30. The man answered, Herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes--He had no need to say another word; but waxing bolder in defense of his Benefactor, and his views brightening by the very courage which it demanded, he puts it to them how they could pretend inability to tell whether one who opened the eyes of a man born blind was "of God" or "a sinner"--from above or from beneath--and proceeds to argue the case with remarkable power. So irresistible was his argument that their rage burst forth in a speech of intense Pharisaism, "Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us?"--thou, a base-born, uneducated, impudent youth, teach us, the trained, constituted, recognized guides of the people in the things of God! Out upon thee!
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31. 他們把他趕出去了——無疑是按司法程序，事實上也是如此。他們提到他「生在罪中」，似乎暗中承認了他生來瞎眼的事實——這正是他們一直極不願承認的。但對真理的狂怒與敵意在發作之時很少是前後一致的。這位被逐出教門之少年的朋友們簇擁在他周圍，對他表示同情，大概會表示驚訝：一位能行如此醫治的主，竟不能保護祂的病人免受這醫治所引起的逼迫，或者竟擁有能力卻不使用。這樣的念頭若也曾在少年人自己心中浮現，也不足為奇。但若確曾浮現，從下文看來可以肯定，它們並未在那裡扎根，因為他清楚知道「從前他是眼瞎的，如今能看見了」，並且確信他的恩人「若不是從神來的，祂就什麼也不能做」（約9:33）。對他而言也有一句話，若是從神的言語中對他耳語，便似乎是特為描述他的處境、並為他將與那滿有恩典的朋友即將來臨的會面作準備：「你們因耶和華言語戰兢的人，當聽耶和華的話。*你們的弟兄，就是恨惡你們、因我名趕出你們的，曾說：願耶和華得榮耀；*但祂必顯現，使你們歡喜，他們卻必蒙羞」（賽66:5）。然而，那位得了如此崇高見證、為祂受了如此逼迫的主，如今在做什麼呢？也許正在隱密處、「大聲哀哭、流淚」地誦念著預言詩篇的話：「萬軍之主耶和華啊，求祢叫那等候祢的，不致因我蒙羞；以色列的神啊，求祢叫那尋求祢的，不致因我受辱；因我為祢的緣故受了辱罚……並且辱罵祢的人辱罵了祢，都落在我身上」（詩69:6-7、9）。
英文原文
31. they cast him out--judicially, no doubt, as well in fact. The allusion to his being "born in sins" seems a tacit admission of his being blind from birth--the very thing they had been so unwilling to own. But rage and enmity to truth are seldom consistent in their outbreaks. The friends of this excommunicated youth, crowding around him with their sympathy, would probably express surprise that One who could work such a cure should be unable to protect his patient from the persecution it had raised against him, or should possess the power without using it. Nor would it be strange if such thoughts should arise in the youth's own mind. But if they did, it is certain, from what follows, that they made no lodgment there, conscious as he was that "whereas he was blind, now he saw," and satisfied that if his Benefactor "were not of God, He could do nothing"
(Joh 9:33).
There was a word for him too, which, if whispered in his ear from the oracles of God, would seem expressly designed to describe his case, and prepare him for the coming interview with his gracious Friend. "Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His word. Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified; BUT HE SHALL APPEAR TO YOUR JOY, and they shall be ashamed"
(Isa 66:5).
But how was He engaged to whom such noble testimony had been given, and for whom such persecution had been borne? Uttering, perhaps, in secret, "with strong crying and tears," the words of the prophetic psalm, "Let not them that wait on Thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake; let none that seek Thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel; because for Thy sake I have borne reproach . . . and the reproaches of them that reproached Thee are fallen upon me"
(Ps 69:6, 7, 9).
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35-38. 耶穌聽見——即藉著帶來的消息。
他們把他趕出去了；耶穌遇見他——是偶然的嗎？不太可能。那心中的同情不可能長久與它的對象隔絕。
就對他說：你信神的兒子嗎？——這問題故意超越了他現今的領悟，為要更快地引導他——在他如今可教導的狀態中——進入最高的真理。
英文原文
35-38. Jesus heard--that is, by intelligence brought Him.
that they had cast him out; and when he had found him--by accident? Not very likely. Sympathy in that breast could not long keep aloof from its object.
he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?--A question stretching purposely beyond his present attainments, in order the more quickly to lead him--in his present teachable frame--into the highest truth.
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36. 他回答說：主啊，誰是神的兒子，叫我信祂呢？——「他的回答是肯定的、且是出於期待的相信，一俟耶穌說出自己是誰，他便應許相信」〔STIER〕。
英文原文
36. He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?--"His reply is affirmative, and believing by anticipation, promising faith as soon as Jesus shall say who He is" [STIER].
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37. 耶穌對他說：你已經看見祂——那新的視覺在那一刻有了最高的運用，就是注視著「世界的光」。
英文原文
37. Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him--the new sense of sight having at that moment its highest exercise, in gazing upon "the Light of the world."
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38. 他說：主啊，我信！就拜耶穌——這信心和這敬拜，毫無疑問地，所要表達的遠超過他對任何屬人的「先知」（約9:17）所認為合宜的——這大概是那不自覺的、不可抗拒的至高信心與敬拜的表達，雖然他對此所包含的含義尚未完全理解。
英文原文
38. he said, Lord, I believe: and he worshipped him--a faith and a worship, beyond doubt, meant to express far more than he would think proper to any human "prophet"
(Joh 9:17)
--the unstudied, resistless expression, probably of SUPREME faith and adoration, though without the full understanding of what that implied.
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39-41. 耶穌說——也許是同時說的，但發生在一群人——包括一些懷疑和譏誚的首領——看見耶穌與那得醫治的少年說話、便急忙趕到那裡之後。
叫不能看見的，可以看見，等等——上升到那視覺，而賜予那少年的自然視力不過是其象徵。（參見 約9:5，並參 路4:18。）
能看見的，反瞎了眼——即在審判上無力領會並接受那他們故意閉眼不看的真理。
英文原文
39-41. Jesus said--perhaps at the same time, but after a crowd, including some of the skeptical and scornful rulers, had, on seeing Jesus talking with the healed youth, hastened to the spot.
that they which see not might see, &c.--rising to that sight of which the natural vision communicated to the youth was but the symbol. (See on
Joh 9:5,
and compare
Lu 4:18).
that they which see might be made blind--judicially incapable of apprehending and receiving the truth, to which they have wilfully shut their eyes.
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40. 難道我們也瞎了眼嗎？——我們這些在屬靈之事上被設立、被公認為百姓的引導者嗎？這問題出於驕傲與怒氣。
英文原文
40. Are we blind also?--We, the constituted, recognized guides of the people in spiritual things? pride and rage prompting the question.
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41. 你們若瞎了眼——即缺乏辨認我宣稱的真光，而僅僅等候接受它。
就沒有罪了——即沒有那拒絕真光的罪咎。
如今你們說我們能看見，所以你們的罪還在——你們一面拒絕我、一面宣稱擁有真光，正是這點將你們封閉在不信的罪咎之中。
英文原文
41. If ye were blind--wanted light to discern My claims, and only waited to receive it.
ye should have no sin--none of the guilt of shutting out the light.
ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth--Your claim to possess light, while rejecting Me, is that which seals you up in the guilt of unbelief.
約9:1-41。
一個生來瞎眼的人眼睛得開，以及隨之而來的事。
1-5. 耶穌過去的時候，看見一個人生來是瞎眼的——他「坐著討飯」
(Joh 9:8)。