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

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1. And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. And when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, behold, the place was a place for livestock.

2. And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the rulers of the congregation, saying,

3 “Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

4. The land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”

5. And they said, “If we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over Jordan.”

6. And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here?

7. And why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

8. Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land,

9. For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

10. And the LORD’S anger was kindled at the same time, and He swore, saying,

11. ‘Surely, none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and up, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob because they have not fully followed Me,

12. Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have fully followed the LORD.’

13. And the LORD’S anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all that generation which had done evil in the sight of the LORD was destroyed.

14. And behold, you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

15. For if you turn away from following Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness. And you shall destroy all this people.”

(A Faithful Version)

1. 呂便的子孫和迦得的子孫擁有極多的牲畜。當他們看到雅謝和基列這一帶土地,非常適合放牧。

2. 這二族派人對摩西和祭司以利亞撒及民眾的首領表白:

3. 亞他錄、底本、雅謝、寧拉、希實本、以利亞利、示班、尼波、比穩,

4. 上述的地方是耶和華讓以色列收取之地,非常適合放牧之用,我們擁有許多牧畜。

5. 如果能夠蒙恩待,請將這片土地賜給我們作牧養之地,就不與你們往前過約旦河。

6. 摩西便對迦得的子孫和呂便的子孫表明:難道你是想眾兄弟去爭戰,而你們留在這裡?

7. 你們不願過河去收取耶和華賜給我們那片土地,是會打擊眾人的信心!

8. 從前,當我在加低斯·巴尼亞差派你們的先祖去探察地形,他們就是這樣。

9. 當時,因為看到以實各谷這片土地,令以色列人的心灰意冷,不願去取那塊耶和華賜給我們的土地。

10. 耶和華就有怒氣,起誓:

11. 從埃及出來,年紀在二十歲及以上的人,無人能見我向亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各,起誓賜給他們後裔的那片土地,只為沒有全心全意跟隨我,

12. 當時,只有基尼洗族人耶孚尼的兒子迦勒,和嫩的兒子約書亞除外,他倆是全心全意跟隨。

13. 耶和華當時向以色列人發的怒氣,就是要他們在曠野漂流了四十年,直到那一代人壽終為止。

14. 你們如今竟去重覆父輩的決定,再度犯錯,只會讓耶和華對以色列人發更大的怒氣。

15. 你們若是離祂,不願跟隨,是會再次把你們留在曠野。這決定會導致整個族群滅亡。

這段描述非常寫實,就是人擁有財富,就會希望永遠擁有,這心態正常。不正常的地方是當財富是可以當作永久的保障,想守住這保障,這是一時糊塗所致。財富可以多也可以少,信仰當中明確一點,那是多的時候,會愈多。

這二族人的表白,要保住現有的,就會失去更多這是一點。

第二點,是為了守住己的財富,忘記自己當有的責任。這二族人一旦為了自己的利益忘記了自己應有的責任,那是極之自利的行為,它破壞公平社會的和諧。

摩西陳述上述二族人的自顧自己的心態,緣來不是單一事件,摩西提出他們9先早也曾有過這樣的表現,有是因為財富,而是更為內在的因素:膽怯。

信仰上的描述人內在那份膽怯,有份與耶和華相連的內在因素,不同於單獨對人的研究,有相似的一面:

膽怯的現象學經驗是多方面的,涵蓋情緒、認知和生理成分。從情感上來說,它的特徵是強烈的脆弱感、憂慮感和高度的自我意識,常常表現為對負面評價的恐懼。在認知上,膽怯的人經常受到一系列負面自我參照思想的困擾,包括對失敗、社會排斥或不足的期望(Fernandez-Berrocal & Extremera,2004)。這種對潛在社會失誤的持續內部監控嚴重耗盡了認知資源,並進一步削弱了自然參與對話或協作活動的能力。從生理上來說,膽怯常常會觸發交感神經系統,導致心率加快、出汗、顫抖等症狀或有「喉嚨哽咽」的感覺,即使在預期微小的社會需求時也是如此。這些強烈的身體感覺強化了逃離感知到的威脅環境的願望。

摩西在此提出他們先祖的問題是因為膽怯,它表現在不同的物事上,背後的成因都是膽怯的原則不變。

這現象在今日的社會更為明顯,例如只求安定,盡說仁義,不理公平受到侵犯,不義之為更是幫凶,盡拿好處不付上自己的責任,例子比比皆是。今日黃之鋒的判刑十年,連外國媒體都為之發聲,就等香港人的反應,看看它跟膽怯是否有直接的關連作用?

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