Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · Leviticus 第15章

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Leviticus 第 15 章

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Le 15:1-18.

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Le 15:1-18.

男人的不潔

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Le 15:1-18.

UNCLEANNESS OF MEN.

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2. 若有人患漏症——本章描述其他形式的不潔,其性質在經文中已足夠明白,無需解釋。這些既是放縱情慾的後果,理當屬於立法者關注的範圍;此處所定極其嚴格的規條,既為隔離患者,也為避免因任何與他有關之物而受污染,不僅能有效防止傳染,也能遏止放縱情慾的過度行為。

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2. When any man hath a running issue--This chapter describes other forms of uncleanness, the nature of which is sufficiently intelligible in the text without any explanatory comment. Being the effects of licentiousness, they properly come within the notice of the legislator, and the very stringent rules here prescribed, both for the separation of the person diseased and for avoiding contamination from anything connected with him, were well calculated not only to prevent contagion, but to discourage the excesses of licentious indulgence.

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9. 患漏症人所騎的……鞍子都不潔淨——(參

Ge 31:34 的註釋)。

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9. what saddle . . . he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean--(See on

Ge 31:34).

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12. 患漏症人所摸的瓦器必打碎——據推測以色列人的陶器,如同埃及人儲水的瓦罐一樣,是無釉的、因此是多孔的;正因為它多孔,極易吸收少量不潔之物質,這便是被不潔之人觸碰的器皿要被打碎的原因。

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12. the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken--It is thought that the pottery of the Israelites, like the earthenware jars in which the Egyptians kept their water, was unglazed and consequently porous, and that it was its porousness which, rendering it extremely liable to imbibe small particles of impure matter, was the reason why the vessel touched by an unclean person was ordered to be broken.

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13, 14. 他要為潔淨自己計算七天——如同痲瘋患者一樣,他要經過一週的考驗,以確定他已完全痊愈。然後祭司用所定的祭為他贖罪,即獻上為除去他禮儀上不潔、以及象徵性地赦免他的罪所必需的供物。

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13, 14. then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing--Like a leprous person he underwent a week's probation, to make sure he was completely healed. Then with the sacrifices prescribed, the priest made an atonement for him, that is, offered the oblations necessary for the removal of his ceremonial defilement, as well as the typical pardon of his sins.

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Le 15:19-33.

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Le 15:19-33.

女人的不潔

19. 女人若患漏症——這雖如痲瘋一樣可能是天然的病症,古時卻被視為傳染性的,並招致禮儀上的不潔,象徵著道德上的不潔。這禮儀上的不潔必須藉著所定的禮儀性贖罪之法來除去,若忽略它,便使人擔當玷污會幕的罪,並以死作為褻瀆妄為的刑罰。

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Le 15:19-33.

UNCLEANNESS OF WOMEN.

19. if a woman have an issue--Though this, like the leprosy, might be a natural affection, it was anciently considered contagious and entailed a ceremonial defilement which typified a moral impurity. This ceremonial defilement had to be removed by an appointed method of ceremonial expiation, and the neglect of it subjected any one to the guilt of defiling the tabernacle, and to death as the penalty of profane temerity.

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31-33. 你們要這樣使以色列人與他們的污穢隔絕——神聖的智慧表現在使以色列人對聖物產生深刻的敬畏;再沒有比禁止一切被任何不潔——無論是禮儀的還是天然的、心靈的還是身體的——所污染的人進入會幕,更適合這目的的了。為了更好地標明那百姓為他的家屬、他的僕人和祭司——住在營中如同住在聖地,因他的同在和會幕而分別為聖——他要求他們完全的潔淨,不容許他們在被玷污時——即使因非自願的或隱秘的不潔——來到他面前,這是對他威嚴當有的尊敬。當我們記得神正在訓練一個在他面前生活、在某種程度上作為獻身事奉他的祭司的民族時,我們便不會認為這些維持個人潔淨的規條過於嚴格或過於繁瑣

(1Th 4:4)。

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31-33. Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness--The divine wisdom was manifested in inspiring the Israelites with a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to this purpose than to debar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, mental as well as physical. The better to mark out that people as His family, His servants and priests, dwelling in the camp as in a holy place, consecrated by His presence and His tabernacle, He required of them complete purity, and did not allow them to come before Him when defiled, even by involuntary or secret impurities, as a want of respect due to His majesty. And when we bear in mind that God was training a people to live in His presence in some measure as priests devoted to His service, we shall not consider these rules for the maintenance of personal purity either too stringent or too minute

(1Th 4:4).