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譯本是參照 AFV(A Faithful Version) 2009
32. Now what more can I say? For time would fail me to relate the accounts of Gideon, Barak also, and Samson and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets; 33. Who by faith were victorious over kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34. Quenched the fury of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in war, and turned back the armies of foreigners. 35. Women received their dead restored to life; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a superior resurrection; 36. And others endured the trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; yes, and moreover, of chains and imprisonment. 37. They were stoned to death, they were sawed in two, they were brutally interrogated, and slaughtered by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and in goatskins, being destitute, oppressed, and ill-treated; 38. Of whom the world was not worthy; they wandered in deserts and in mountains, living in caves and in holes in the earth. 39. But these all, though they had received a good report through faith, did not obtain the promise 40. Because God had determined in advance to provide something superior for us so that without us they would not be made perfect. (A Faithful Version)
32. 到此,還能說什麼?篇幅有限,無法詳述基甸、巴拉、參孫和耶弗他、大衛、撒母耳和眾先知等事跡,
33. 他們都是憑信心勝了列國,行正義,獲得應許,封住眾英雄能者之口,
34. 平息列強之火,避開了刀劍鋒芒,化弱為強,在爭戰顯的威猛無比,擊退了外族的入侵。
35. 婦女從失落中重燃希望,遭受過虐待的,不會接受以贖金去讓敵人有重獲新生的機會。
36. 還有一些曾受過無情嘲笑和鞭打的,他們更期待的是,還這些人以鎖鍊和監禁。
37. 這得勝的人,曾經是被石頭砸死,鋸成兩半,受殘酷審訊,並被刀劍屠殺的。這些人披著綿羊皮、山羊皮到處逃亡,飽受貧窮、壓迫和虐待。
38. 世界沒有地方留給他們,只能流落於沙漠荒領,住在洞穴。
39. 他們每一個人,都能用信心見證著但這些事情的發生,卻沒有在當時得到神應許的落實,
40. 是因為神早有預備,去提供人一些更優越的。若是沒有他們,今日的我們就不會變得完全。
這是一段反覆論證的說明,為的是說明神在這段歷史,當中他們信心滿滿,持守著對神的信心,只是未能得到所應許之地,當中的緣由是因為神要將祂的祝福,透過以色列人給予外邦人一個機會。
這段說話能否安慰或者讓當時受信的以色列人認同,實是個疑問。
就算今日,即2024年,用這段說話去解釋今日藉耶穌信神的人,要接受神這樣的安排的解釋,都會引起許多的疑惑。緣因是:人都會自私。都會去問一個問題,為什麼是我?
為此,只能從信神當中的愛去了解。愛當中最大的功能,是犧牲。意思是放下自己,成全他人。如果不明白,就不會理解作者在此說明的用意。因此,在翻譯的英中文版本,都未能讓看官明白當中要說的是什麼意思。
1. 正面解說的:第32 – 36節。
2. 反面解說:第37 – 38節
3. 總結出來的意思:第39 – 40節。
這段記述的文字,有點不按乎人之常情的描述,在這早期文字多次轉換文字之間,譯的人對神的心意,有多少的了解,會直接反映在文字的言詞和語氣當中。這是翻譯的難處。這個是不是很近的譯文,不知道,冀盼多多指正。
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