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Lu 21:1-4.
英文原文
Lu 21:1-4.
THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES.
1. looked up--He had "sat down over against the treasury"
(Mr 12:41),
probably to rest, for He had continued long standing as he taught in the temple court
(Mr 11:27),
and "looking up He saw"--as in Zaccheus' case, not quite casually.
the rich, &c.--"the people," says
Mr 12:41
"cast money into the treasury, and many rich east in much"; that is, into chests deposited in one of the courts of the temple to receive the offerings of the people towards its maintenance
(2Ki 12:9; Joh 8:20).
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2. 兩個小錢——「就是一個大錢」
（可 12:42）， 是猶太最小的錢幣。「她本可以留下一個」〔BENGEL〕。
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2. two mites--"which make a farthing"
(Mr 12:42),
the smallest Jewish coin. "She might have kept one" [BENGEL].
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3. 耶穌說——「對門徒說」，祂「叫門徒來」
（可 12:43）， 要從這事教導他們一個重大的功課。
比眾人所投的更多——就其力量所能的比例而言，這正是上帝的標準
（林後 8:12）。
英文原文
3. And he said--"to His disciples," whom He "called to Him"
(Mr 12:43),
to teach from it a great future lesson.
more than . . . all--in proportion to her means, which is God's standard
(2Co 8:12).
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4. 在有餘——即他們的盈餘；他們所多出來的，超出他們所需的。
在不足——或作「缺乏」
（可 12:44）—— 她的短缺，少於她自己所需用的，「她一切養生的」。馬可記得更為有力：「她一切養生的都投上了」。 附註：（一）基督的聖工如今在本地與外地仍需要聖殿的奉獻，因此祂如今「向下觀看」——正如當日「向上觀看」——「看見」誰「投入」，以及投入了多少。（二）基督所稱許的奉獻標準，不是我們的盈餘，而是我們的短缺——不是我們永不會覺得缺少的，而是要我們付出真實犧牲的，且恰好按這相對的犧牲比例而定。（見
林後 8:1-3。）
英文原文
4. of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare," or beyond what they needed.
of her penury--or "want"
(Mr 12:44)
--her deficiency, of what was less than her own wants required, "all the living she had." Mark
(Mr 12:44)
still more emphatically, "all that she had--her whole subsistence." Note: (1) As temple offerings are needed still for the service of Christ at home and abroad, so "looking down" now, as then "up," Me "sees" who "cast in," and how much. (2) Christ's standard of commendable offering is not our superfluity, but our deficiency--not what will never be missed, but what costs us some real sacrifice, and just in proportion to the relative amount of that sacrifice. (See
2Co 8:1-3.)
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Lu 21:5-38.
路 21:5-38.
基督預言耶路撒冷的毀滅，以及因此而發的、為祂第二次降臨作準備的警告——祂最後一週的日日夜夜。
5-7. （見
太 24:1-3 註釋。）
英文原文
Lu 21:5-38.
CHRIST'S PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND WARNINGS TO PREPARE FOR HIS SECOND COMING, SUGGESTED BY IT--HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS DURING HIS LAST WEEK.
5-7. (See on
Mt 24:1-3.)
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8. 時候——指國度在豐滿榮耀中降臨之時。
不要……跟從——「我不是那麼快就來」
(2Th 2:1, 2)
[斯蒂爾]。
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8. the time--of the Kingdom, in its full glory.
go . . . not . . . after them--"I come not so very soon"
(2Th 2:1, 2)
[STIER].
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9-11. 不要驚惶——（見
Lu 21:19；
Isa 8:11-14）。
末期不能立時就到——或作立刻，尚未
(Mt 24:6；
Mr 13:7)：
即「在一切未了之前，還有更糟的要來。」
英文原文
9-11. not terrified--(See
Lu 21:19; Isa 8:11-14).
end not by and by--or immediately, not yet
(Mt 24:6; Mr 13:7):
that is, "Worse must come before all is over."
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10. 民族等——馬太與馬可
(Mt 24:8；
Mr 13:8)
加上「這一切都是災難的起頭」，即生產之難的起頭——重大災禍被比作生產之苦
(Jer 4:31
等)。
英文原文
10. Nation, &c.--Matthew and Mark
(Mt 24:8; Mr 13:8)
add, "All these are the beginning of sorrows," or travail pangs, to which heavy calamities are compared
(Jer 4:31,
&c.).
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12. 帶到等——使徒行傳證實了這一切。
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12. brought before, &c.--The book of Acts verifies all this.
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13. 作見證——即作見證的機會。
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13. for a testimony--an opportunity of bearing testimony.
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18. 連一根頭髮也……不損壞——祂剛才說過
(Lu 21:16)
他們要被治死；這表明這寶貴的應許遠超過僅僅免受身體損害，並為正確解釋詩篇第九十一篇等類經文提供了一把鑰匙。馬太補充以下的話
(Mt 24:12)：
「只因不法的事增多，許多人的」——這「許多人」或說「大多數人」，即普遍的認信門徒——「愛心，才漸漸冷淡了」。惟有忍耐到底的必然得救。關於不法的事增多使忠信門徒的愛心冷淡的可悲例證，我們見於大約寫於此一時期的雅各書，以及此後太多次的例證
(Heb 10:38, 39; Re 2:10)。
「這天國的福音要傳遍天下，對萬民作見證，然後末期才來到」
(Mt 24:14)。
神從不未經事先警告就降下審判；猶太人既已散居於大多數已知國家，無疑在猶太國終結之前幾乎全都聽過福音「作見證」。同樣的原則曾重複發生，並要重複直到那末了。
英文原文
18. not a hair . . . perish--He had just said
(Lu 21:16)
they should be put to death; showing that this precious promise is far above immunity from mere bodily harm, and furnishing a key to the right interpretation of the ninety-first Psalm, and such like. Matthew adds the following
(Mt 24:12):
"And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many," the many or, the most--the generality of professed disciples--"shall wax cold." But he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Sad illustrations of the effect of abounding iniquity in cooling the love of faithful disciples we have in the Epistle of James, written about this period referred to, and too frequently ever since
(Heb 10:38, 39; Re 2:10).
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness, and then shall the end come"
(Mt 24:14).
God never sends judgment without previous warning; and there can be no doubt that the Jews, already dispersed over most known countries, had nearly all heard the Gospel "as a witness," before the end of the Jewish state. The same principle was repeated and will repeat itself to the end.
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20, 21. 被兵丁圍困——即紮營的軍隊，也就是被圍困：「那行毀壞可憎的」（指羅馬軍旗，作為偶像崇拜的、異教的、不潔之權勢的象徵）——「先知但以理所說的」
(Da 9:27)
「站在不當站的地方」
(Mr 13:14)。
「讀［那預言］的人須要會意」
(Mt 24:15)。
那時……逃走等——優西比烏說基督徒「受了預言的指引」，逃到比利亞北端的庇累；也許是藉著比這更明確的某種預言提示，而這話仍然是他們的航圖。
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20, 21. by armies--encamped armies, that is, besieged: "the abomination of desolation" (meaning the Roman ensigns, as the symbols of an idolatrous, pagan, unclean power) "spoken of by Daniel the prophet"
(Da 9:27)
"standing where it ought not"
(Mr 13:14).
"Whoso readeth [that prophecy] let him understand"
(Mt 24:15).
Then . . . flee, &c.--EUSEBIUS says the Christians fled to Pella, at the north extremity of Perea, being "prophetically directed"; perhaps by some prophetic intimation still more explicit than this, which still would be their chart.
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23. 禍——即「哀哉」。
懷孕等——因其將帶來更大的痛苦；同樣他們要「祈求」不致在「冬天或安息日」逃走
(Mt 24:20)，
前者對身體更為煎熬，後者對靈魂更為煎熬。「因為那時必有大災難，從世界的起頭直到如今，未有這樣的」——這在舊約中是表達驚天災禍並不罕見的語言，儘管對此事或可字面地說：「若不減少那些日子，凡有血氣的總沒有一個得救的；只是為選民，那日子必減少了」
(Mt 24:21, 22)。
若非由於多種原因奇妙交織而帶來這仁慈的「減少」，全國必已滅亡，而其中還存留著日後要被招聚出來的餘民。此處在馬太和馬可
(Mt 24:24; Mr 13:22)
有一些關於「假基督」的細節，他們「若能行」——寶貴的副詞——「連選民也就迷惑了」。（比較
2Th 2:9-11; Re 13:13。）
英文原文
23. woe unto--"alas for."
with child, &c.--from the greater suffering it would involve; as also "flight in winter, and on the sabbath," which they were to "pray" against
(Mt 24:20),
the one as more trying to the body, the other to the soul. "For then shall be tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world, nor ever shall be"--language not unusual in the Old Testament for tremendous calamities, though of this it may perhaps be literally said, "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened"
(Mt 24:21, 22).
But for this merciful "shortening," brought about by a remarkable concurrence of causes, the whole nation would have perished, in which there yet remained a remnant to be afterwards gathered out. Here in Matthew and Mark
(Mt 24:24; Mr 13:22)
are some particulars about "false Christs," who should, "if possible"--a precious clause--"deceive the very elect." (Compare
2Th 2:9-11; Re 13:13.)
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24. 耶路撒冷……被踐踏……直到等——暗示 (1) 有一天耶路撒冷必不再「被外邦人踐踏」
(Re 11:2)，
如當日為異教徒、如今則為回教不信者所踐踏；(2) 這事將發生在「外邦人的日期」「滿了」之時，從
Ro 11:25
（取自本處）我們斷定其意為：直到外邦人在教會中得著充足的時間，享受猶太人當日在他們之前所享的那個位置——此後猶太人重新「接在本國的橄欖樹上」，由猶太人與外邦人共同組成的同一個教會將充滿全地
(Ro 11:1-36)。
這展開了何等廣闊的視野！
英文原文
24. Jerusalem . . . trodden down . . . until, &c.--Implying (1) that one day Jerusalem shall cease to be "trodden down by the Gentiles"
(Re 11:2),
as then by pagan so now by Mohammedan unbelievers; (2) that this shall be at the "completion" of "the times of the Gentiles," which from
Ro 11:25
(taken from this) we conclude to mean till the Gentiles have had their full time of that place in the Church which the Jews in their time had before them--after which, the Jews being again "grafted into their own olive tree," one Church of Jew and Gentile together shall fill the earth
(Ro 11:1-36).
What a vista this opens up!
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25-28. 日月星辰的兆頭等——這語言的雄渾將人的心思越過除基督再臨以外的一切時期，然而幾乎每一表達都可在論及主在可怕的列國審判（如巴比倫等）中降臨時見到；而且從
Lu 21:28, 32
看來，其直接的所指似乎無可否認是耶路撒冷的毀滅，雖其終極的所指無疑是基督最後的降臨。
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25-28. signs, &c.--Though the grandeur of this language carries the mind over the head of all periods but that of Christ's second coming, nearly every expression will be found used of the Lord's coming in terrible national judgments, as of Babylon, &c.; and from
Lu 21:28, 32,
it seems undeniable that its immediate reference was to the destruction of Jerusalem, though its ultimate reference beyond doubt is to Christ's final coming.
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28. 得贖——指藉猶太國度的完全傾覆與福音國度的堅固建立，脫離教會專制與律法束縛的壓制
(Lu 21:31)。
但這些話有著遠更寬廣、更寶貴的含義。馬太
(Mt 24:30)
說：「那時，人子的兆頭要顯在天上」，顯然與隨即提及的祂自己有所區別。這到底何指，解經家意見不一。但正如基督來毀滅耶路撒冷之前，空中曾出現駭人的異象；照樣在祂親自顯現之前，可能也會目睹類似之事，雖其性質如何，揣測也是徒然。
英文原文
28. redemption--from the oppression of ecclesiastical despotism and legal bondage by the total subversion of the Jewish state and the firm establishment of the evangelical kingdom
(Lu 21:31).
But the words are of far wider and more precious import. Matthew
(Mt 24:30)
says, "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven," evidently something distinct from Himself, mentioned immediately after. What this was intended to mean, interpreters are not agreed. But as before Christ came to destroy Jerusalem, some appalling portents were seen in the air, so before His personal appearing it is likely that something analogous will be witnessed, though of what nature it is vain to conjecture.
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32. 這世代——並非如有些人所解釋的「這國族」；此解本身雖可通，但在此顯得極不自然。更當如
Lu 9:27
所指。
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32. This generation--not "this nation," as some interpret it, which, though admissible in itself, seems very unnatural here. It is rather as in
Lu 9:27.
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34-37. 貪食、醉酒——一切肉體的放縱，撲滅屬靈。
今生的思慮——（參見
Mr 4:7；
Mr 4:19
的註釋。）
英文原文
34-37. surfeiting, and drunkenness--All animal excesses, quenching spirituality.
cares of this life--(See on
Mr 4:7;
Mr 4:19).
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36. 儆醒……祈求等——在試煉前景中常常吩咐的兩大本分。這些因著預備面對將臨的大災難、現有秩序的全面崩潰之需而發的警告，是整篇講論的一般應用，將人心引向前瞻另一種類、更宏大也更可畏規模的審判與報應——不是教會的或政治的，而是個人的；不是暫時的，而是永遠的——那時一切的安全與福氣，都將在於能在祂親自降臨的榮耀中「站在人子面前」。
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36. Watch . . . pray, &c.--the two great duties which in prospect of trial are constantly enjoined. These warnings, suggested by the need of preparedness for the tremendous calamities approaching, and the total wreck of the existing state of things, are the general improvement of the whole discourse, carrying the mind forward to Judgment and Vengeance of another kind and on a grander and more awful scale--not ecclesiastical or political but personal, not temporal but eternal--when all safety and blessedness will be found to lie in being able to "STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN" in the glory of His personal appearing.
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37, 38. 每日——祂這最後一個星期的白日。
在橄欖山上住宿——即在伯大尼
(Mt 21:17)。
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37, 38. in the daytime--of this His last week.
abode in the mount--that is, at Bethany
(Mt 21:17).
路 21:1-4.
寡婦的兩個小錢。
1. 抬頭看——祂「對著銀庫坐著」
（可 12:41）， 大概是為了休息，因為祂在聖殿院中教訓人時已經久站
（可 11:27）； 「祂抬頭看」就看见——正如在撒該的事上一樣，並非出於偶然。
財主等語——「眾人」，
可 12:41 說，「把錢投進庫裏；有好些財主，投了許多」；即投入聖殿院中設置、用以收取百姓為聖殿維修所獻捐項的箱子
（王下 12:9； 約 8:20）。