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譯本是參照 AFV(A Faithful Version) 2009
11. By faith also Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, and gave birth when she was well beyond the childbearing age because she esteemed Him faithful Who had personally promised her a son. 12. Because of this faith, there came into being from one man—and moreover, one who was reproductively dead— descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and as countless as the sand on the sea shore. 13. All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having been persuaded of them, and having embraced them, and having confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. 14. For those who say such things make it manifest that they seek their own country, as promised by God. 15. And if, on the one hand, they had let their minds dwell fondly on the place where they came from, they might have had opportunity to return. 16. But now, on the other hand, they are aspiring to a more excellent country— that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God because He has prepared a city for them. 17. By faith Abraham, when he was being tried, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son 18. Of whom it was said, “In Isaac shall your Seed be called”; 19. Because he reckoned that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative way. 20. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things that were to come. (A Faithful Version)
11. 因信,莎拉能懷孕,在遠遠超過生育年齡限時誕下嬰孩,只因知道神是信實,親口許諾給她兒子。
12. 由於信心,就讓一位過了能繁殖後代的男人,子孫卻如天上的星星、如海邊的沙那樣多。
13. 他們許多在死時仍是滿有信心,當時沒有看到這應許的落實。從歷史回看,都被現在的情況說服,很想去擁抱它們,不得不承認,他們是這樣特別地寄居於這個地上。
14. 說這些話,是要說明他們是尋求屬於自己的家園,是神應許的。
15. 他們也許有一個想法,對於出生之地有一份深厚的感情,很想回到那裡。
16. 現在,卻有另一想法,是更為嚮往一處比之前的更為美好的家園,是在天上。再不會以稱這神為恥,因為神,為他們預備了一美好的屬天之城。
17. 亞伯拉罕的信心,受到的試驗,是將以撒獻上,就是要將神應許的獨生子獻上
18. 對於以撒,據說有言:從以撒生的,才能稱為你的後裔。
19. 因為以撒被神認定會從死亡中拯救出來,這事正好說明後來的人被神拯救的明證。
20. 以撒的信心,祝福了雅各和以掃,有關他們以後身上發生的事。
希伯來書作者在上仍舊說信心這回事,之前是個人,今回同時個人,但這個人卻被其信心,增加至一族。而這一族當中二位後裔,一位雅各一位以掃,一位是今日的以色列一位是今日的回教宗教政體(根據伊斯蘭學者的說法,先知阿尤布是以掃的兒子魯埃爾的曾孫),是不是很奇妙又難以明白的事,因為同受祝福,又相互為敵,從那時到今朝。
對於亞伯拉罕和莎拉的一段故事,不在此論述,在此是談信心對對神的人帶來的影響。
莎拉因為沒有所出(不曾生育),又稱亞伯拉罕過了生育的年限,由此可以看出記述的人已經有統計的思維,用科學的觀點去解釋生育的現象。這不是重點,重點是過了生育年數,仍能成孕的莎拉,她的處境被不能生育帶來的歧視,這是社會觀念引來的不公現象。她向神求公平的對待。
如果就現象是莎拉真實的訴求緣由,那麼神是公義,這現象正好用來說明。
另外是神的祝福給亞伯拉罕,這人不完全,沒有什麼可以陳述的地方,只有一事被神看為寶貴,就是信。第17節的描述,神叫亞伯拉罕去獻以撒,是直系的親生兒子,按描述亞伯拉罕是沒有因為去懷疑神。事實也許是有疑惑,不知神為何如此要求,只因得以撒是神安排,失以撒如果是神的安排,就相信有失必有得,便安然去接受。
亞伯拉罕這份信心,當今許多信神的,都沒有。沒有這樣的信心,算不算相信?
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