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譯本是參照 AFV (A Faithful Version) 2009
1. Know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come; 2. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, braggarts, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3. Without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, despisers of those who are good, 4. Betrayers, reckless, egotistical, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 5. Having an outward appearance of godliness, but denying the power of true godliness. But as for you, turn away from all these. 6. For from men such as these come those who are worming their way into houses, and are gaining control over empty-headed gullible women given over to various sins, being driven by all kinds of lust. 7. They are always learning but are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8. Now just as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, in the same manner also these are brazenly standing against the truth; they are men of depraved minds, reprobate in respect to the faith. 9. But they will proceed no further, because their folly will become clearly evident to everyone, just as theirs also was. (A Faithful Version)
1. 同樣要知道,在末後的日子,它同時有許多令人難以接受的情況產生。
2. 那時的人,更顧自己、愛錢、愛吹牛、自傲、自以為是神、忤逆父母、忘恩負義、不自潔、
3. 無同情心,不守盟約,喜誣告,不喜自控,野蠻,不屑去做好人好事,
4. 容易做出背叛的事、行事魯莽、為人自負、愛享樂多過愛神;
5. 有敬虔的外表,卻否認敬虔是實用。提犘太,還是遠離一點好。
6. 這些人,偷偷地摸到聚集的地方,有了影響力,就對那些頭腦單純的婦女,誘發她們的慾望,從而犯下各種錯事。
7. 都是裝成好學的樣子,對真正實在的道理卻是無法入腦。
8. 當中如雅尼斯和詹布雷,都反對摩西,他們也同樣公然反對這些道理。是滿腦子墮落的思想,不認為有信心是有用。
9. 這些人是無法持久,因為許多人都知道,這些愚行,只有愚蠢的人會做。
註:https://tyndalehouse.com/explore/articles/the-strange-case-of-jannes-and-jambres/ v.8 可以參考這個解釋。
保羅對提摩太再一次提點,將來的處境比現在的更不好。按文理,末後的日子是怎樣?保羅的理解那是人的行為,愈來愈自我為中心。從 第2-4節很仔細說出,人的行為愈來愈多,又愈來愈是明顯有這種情況出現,那是末世。意思是人與人之間愈發覺,少了以前人對人那份真情相待的感覺。這現象也是社會現象,例如公事公辦。人與人之間的相助,是資料凡提供,丈人去那處找求助,而不是有份憐憫之情。
這現象是社會和種因素構成,例如愈來愈制度化,又如社會福利愈來愈是完善,人的生活愈來愈富裕,科學的進展人愈來愈令人滿意…等等因素,都使人依賴別人的需要減少。那是經濟上的改變,但人與人之間情緒上的壓力卻是愈大。
保羅同時解釋,社會功能的發展,學識知識愈是廣泛,人依賴學識和由此建構的制度愈是依賴,人對神的信心愈少。這倒是一個末世真正令人困惑的地方,信神的人如何保持一份單純對神的信心,那是個人極大的挑戰。
提摩太有沒有領受,不知道。只是這段話卻對今日信神的人,有更大的提醒,那是為什麼前輩們保留這些書卷的緣因吧。
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