參考版本 AFV  A  Faithful Version 的希臘文 2009版本    

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28. And he sent Judah before him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.

29. And Joseph made his chariot ready, and went up to Goshen to meet Israel his father, and presented himself to him. And he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

30. And Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face because you are still alive.”

31. And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s house, “I will go up and show Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32. And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock. And they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

33. And it shall be when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say, ‘What is your occupation?’

34. Then you shall answer, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’—so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

 (A Faithful Version)

28. 雅各讓猶大先去見約瑟,問歌珊地的位置,眾人往歌珊地去。

29. 約瑟隨後坐自己的御駕前往歌珊,去迎接父親以色列,到了面前,相互的擁抱,淚流得滿頸都是。

30. 以色列對約瑟說:見你依舊存活,就算是死也無遺憾。

31. 於是,約瑟對與眾兄弟探討如何處理雅各家的事宜,並會回去稟告法老,告訴他:我在迦南的家人現在都遷到我這裡來。

32. 他們原是以畜牧為生,因此也帶就來羊群、牛群,並家中所有都一起帶來。

33. 法老若願意召見你們,問你們以什麼為生。

34. 你們可以這樣回說:我們的祖先與我們,一直都是以畜牧為生。這時便可以提出可否讓你們在歌珊地放牧,選這地方是因為埃及人鄙視畜牧這行業。

這位以色列,就是昔日的雅各。耶和華替他起了以色列,那是因為祂鑑察人心的改變,看見這個人在人生中掙扎求存,有接地的人氣,不好高慕遠。有分辨有能力,為自己安危作出努力去適應,卻從不留下任何把柄,讓人去質疑。而是在不傷人卻又行己的情況下,雙得益彰,他人得財富自己也從中得益。

華人傳傳統有個想法,人要做到超凡入聖這樣高度要求,似乎是孔子作為人最高理想,而這種理想被許多學人認為是人生最高境界。它影響著一代一代的人,就算今日,到了一個極之摩登的年代,事物發展到人不能想像的變化當中,做人的要求始終沒有放下。沒有放下是好事,它的壞事是要求別人,自己不做,這樣的情況得出的結果,是人極之分裂虛假。若是發生在個人,那是個人的事,可怕的是被要求人人都以這種人生理想為目標,卻做不到時,產生的社會效應,是世世代代。

耶和華要求這位以色列,不是要成為道德高尚的人,而是實實在在忠於自己,了解別人,以靈巧純良,去避免自己失去了人性也不讓失去人性的人所傷害。這是個對個人而言是極之不利的處境,人在這處境下,獨自處理機乎是不可能的事。只是,人相信這位耶和華,深明祂是守約施慈愛,就像對雅各一樣。雙方都守住自的本份,耶和華的幫助,就從他的人生中,出了一位約瑟和便雅憫,為雅各的一生,不留遺憾。

雅各有子孫七十,耶和華讓他成為大族 (中文譯國是不同的觀念),這份應許耶和華會在晚年讓相信的人看到。意思是相信的人,人生的過程也許千瘡百孔,可以到頭來,必然看到耶和華的應許實現,沒有遺憾地離開人間,與耶和華和耶穌同處。用神學去解釋,這景象的意義:三位一體,是現實在每個人,這個人本身就是教會,是基督的身體,可以聯合又是各自分開。

有一座教堂能表達這種個別又合一的體會精神,它就是西班牙這百年教會:它的外型是眾多一座座纖細個體聚合而成,外表多元內中華麗,是最有代表性的教會意念。

Sagrada Familia  

https://youtu.be/Uuocce8_4wI?si=JGUTHNz4F87wpuo_

In 2026, above Barcelona, a giant crane slowly lifts a glowing star toward the top of the Sagrada Familia. Workers hold their breath as it moves into place. At the moment it was installed, the building became the tallest church in the world after 144 years. But the deeper you go into its backstory…the more it feels like this structure was never meant to exist today. A war destroyed its designs, a civil war shattered its models, and a pandemic stopped its progress. For more than a century, the project stood between survival and failure. So how did this impossible structure still rise to completion after everything that tried to erase it? Let’s dive in!

雅各一家,就是現今世界這個舞台上的一個縮影,一個由耶和華有執無導的舞台。是描述一家人的事,祖先就是亞當夏娃,由亞伯拉罕起至雅各為終的一套人生真實的故事。簡單直述,又是那麼的真實。

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