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Le 24:1-23.
英文原文
Le 24:1-23.
OIL FOR THE LAMPS.
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2. 要吩咐以色列人——這是重申先前所頒的律法
(Ex 27:20, 21)。
清橄欖油搗成的——即冷壓而成的，這種油極其純淨。
英文原文
2. Command the children of Israel--This is the repetition of a law previously given
(Ex 27:20, 21).
pure oil olive beaten--or cold-drawn, which is always of great purity.
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3, 4. 亞倫從晚上到早晨必在耶和華面前經理這燈——祭司每日必須在場，監督清理與修剪的工作。
英文原文
3, 4. Aaron shall order it from the evening unto the morning--The daily presence of the priests was necessary to superintend the cleaning and trimming.
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4. 在精金的燈臺上——因由純金製成，故稱精金。這象徵傳道人在教會中所當散發的光。
英文原文
4. upon the pure candlestick--so called because of pure gold. This was symbolical of the light which ministers are to diffuse through the Church.
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5-9. 取細麵，烤成十二個餅——作為陳設餅，如先前所定
(Ex 25:30)。
這些餅由利未人烤製，麵粉由百姓供應
(1Ch 9:32; 23:29)，
油、酒和鹽為其他成分
(Le 2:13)。
伊法十分之二——即每個十三磅半重；在每排或每疊餅上撒一些乳香，乳香焚燒時，便使陳設餅被稱為「火祭」。每個安息日要換上新鮮的供應；熱餅放在壇上以代替放了一週的陳餅，陳餅被撤下，只歸祭司食用，必要時例外
(1Sa 21:3-6;
亦見
Lu 6:3, 4)。
英文原文
5-9. take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes--for the showbread, as previously appointed
(Ex 25:30).
Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people
(1Ch 9:32; 23:29),
oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients
(Le 2:13).
two tenth deals--that is, of an ephah--thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was strewed, which, being burnt, led to the showbread being called "an offering made by fire." Every Sabbath a fresh supply was furnished; hot loaves were placed on the altar instead of the stale ones, which, having lain a week, were removed, and eaten only by the priests, except in cases of necessity
(1Sa 21:3-6;
also
Lu 6:3, 4).
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10. 一個以色列婦人的兒子等——本段記述一條新律法的制定，並詳述引致其制定的情況。那伴隨以色列人出埃及的「閒雜人」
[Ex 12:38]
使人推斷，此處所描述的那類婚姻關係並不罕見。在兩族相對的處境下，父親為埃及人、母親為以色列人，是最自然不過的。
英文原文
10. the son of an Israelitish woman, &c.--This passage narrates the enactment of a new law, with a detail of the circumstances which gave rise to it. The "mixed multitude"
[Ex 12:38]
that accompanied the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt creates a presumption that marriage connections of the kind described were not infrequent. And it was most natural, in the relative circumstances of the two people, that the father should be an Egyptian and the mother an Israelite.
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11. 這以色列婦人的兒子褻瀆了耶和華的名——這個半血統的青年因與一個以色列人爭吵
[Le 24:10]，
便以某種可怕的褻瀆形式發洩他的怒氣。埃及人有一個常見的做法：當他們不能從偶像那裡得到所求之物時，便咒罵他們的偶像。這青年的埃及心思認為，對他的對手最大的侮辱，莫過於褻瀆他宗教上所敬畏的對象。他出言不敬地論及那兼為希伯來百姓之王和神的一位；因這罪是新的，便被收監，直到查明主的心意如何處置他。
英文原文
11. And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord--A youth of this half-blood, having quarrelled with an Israelite
[Le 24:10],
vented his rage in some horrid form of impiety. It was a common practice among the Egyptians to curse their idols when disappointed in obtaining the object of their petitions. The Egyptian mind of this youth thought the greatest insult to his opponent was to blaspheme the object of his religious reverence. He spoke disrespectfully of One who sustained the double character of the King as well as the God of the Hebrew people; as the offense was a new one, he was put in ward till the mind of the Lord was ascertained as to his disposal.
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14. 把那咒詛聖名的人帶到營外——一切處決都在營外進行；這安排可能源於一個觀念：既然以色列人要作「聖潔的國民」
[De 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:19; 28:9]，
一切公然犯罪的人都當被逐出他們的社會。
叫聽見的人都按手在他頭上等——按手構成對罪行公開而莊嚴的見證，同時使刑罰成為合法。
英文原文
14. Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp--All executions took place without the camp; and this arrangement probably originated in the idea that, as the Israelites were to be "a holy people"
[De 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:19; 28:9],
all flagrant offenders should be thrust out of their society.
let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, &c.--The imposition of hands formed a public and solemn testimony against the crime, and at the same time made the punishment legal.
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16. 那褻瀆耶和華名的，無論是寄居的、是本地人，必被治死——外人雖不一定要受割禮，但既加入了以色列人的營，便須服從律法，特別是論到褻瀆的律法。
英文原文
16. as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death--Although strangers were not obliged to be circumcised, yet by joining the Israelitish camp, they became amenable to the law, especially that which related to blasphemy.
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17-22. 打死人的，必被治死——這幾節重複了一些其他律法，論及社會性質的罪行，其刑罰不由私人執行，而是透過審理案件的審判官來執行。
英文原文
17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.
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23. 以色列人照耶和華所吩咐的行了——本章以示羅密兒子被處決作結
[Le 24:14]——
此後石刑成為一切褻瀆之罪的既定刑罰，這也說明了司提反的遭遇——他在褻瀆之罪的虛假指控下受害
[Ac 7:58, 59]。
英文原文
23. the children of Israel did as the Lord's commanded--The chapter closes with the execution of Shelomith's son
[Le 24:14]
--and stoning having afterwards become the established punishment in all cases of blasphemy, it illustrates the fate of Stephen, who suffered under a false imputation of that crime
[Ac 7:58, 59].
Le 24:1-23.
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