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1:1 以下所記的是摩西在約旦河東的曠野、疏弗對面的亞拉巴─就是巴蘭、陀弗、拉班、哈洗錄、底撒哈中間─向以色列眾人所說的話。 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan--that is, in the Arabah--opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
1:2 （從何烈山經過西珥山到加低斯‧巴尼亞有十一天的路程。） (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.) 1:3 出埃及第四十年十一月初一日，摩西照耶和華藉著他所吩咐以色列人的話都曉諭他們。 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them. 1:4 那時，他已經擊殺了住希實本的亞摩利王西宏和住以得來、亞斯他錄的巴珊王噩。 This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth. 1:5 摩西在約旦河東的摩押地講律法說： East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying: 1:6 「耶和華─我們的 神在何烈山曉諭我們說：你們在這山上住的日子夠了； The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, <<You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 1:7 要起行轉到亞摩利人的山地和靠近這山地的各處，就是亞拉巴、山地、高原、南地，沿海一帶迦南人的地，並黎巴嫩山又到幼發拉底大河。 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. 1:8 如今我將這地擺在你們面前；你們要進去得這地，就是耶和華向你們列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓應許賜給他們和他們後裔為業之地。」 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and to their descendants after them.>> 1:9 「那時，我對你們說：『管理你們的重任，我獨自擔當不起。 At that time I said to you, <<You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone. 1:10 耶和華─你們的 神使你們多起來。看哪，你們今日像天上的星那樣多。 The LORD your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky. 1:11 惟願耶和華─你們列祖的 神使你們比如今更多千倍，照他所應許你們的話賜福與你們。 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised! 1:12 但你們的麻煩，和管理你們的重任，並你們的爭訟，我獨自一人怎能擔當得起呢？ But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself? 1:13 你們要按著各支派選舉有智慧、有見識、為眾人所認識的，我立他們為你們的首領。』 Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.>> 1:14 你們回答我說：『照你所說的行了為妙。』 You answered me, <<What you propose to do is good.>> 1:15 我便將你們各支派的首領，有智慧、為眾人所認識的，照你們的支派，立他們為官長、千夫長、百夫長、五十夫長、十夫長，管理你們。 So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you--as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials. 1:16 「當時，我囑咐你們的審判官說：『你們聽訟，無論是弟兄彼此爭訟，是與同居的外人爭訟，都要按公義判斷。 And I charged your judges at that time: Hear the disputes between your brothers and judge fairly, whether the case is between brother Israelites or between one of them and an alien. 1:17 審判的時候，不可看人的外貌；聽訟不可分貴賤，不可懼怕人，因為審判是屬乎 神的。若有難斷的案件，可以呈到我這裏，我就判斷。』 Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of any man, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it. 1:18 那時，我將你們所當行的事都吩咐你們了。」 And at that time I told you everything you were to do. 1:19 「我們照著耶和華─我們 神所吩咐的從何烈山起行，經過你們所看見那大而可怕的曠野，往亞摩利人的山地去，到了加低斯‧巴尼亞。 Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful desert that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. 1:20 我對你們說：『你們已經到了耶和華─我們 神所賜給我們的亞摩利人之山地。 Then I said to you, <<You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us. 1:21 看哪，耶和華─你的 神已將那地擺在你面前，你要照耶和華─你列祖的 神所說的上去得那地為業；不要懼怕，也不要驚惶。』 See, the LORD your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.>> 1:22 你們都就近我來說：『我們要先打發人去，為我們窺探那地，將我們上去該走何道，必進何城，都回報我們。』 Then all of you came to me and said, <<Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.>> 1:23 這話我以為美，就從你們中間選了十二個人，每支派一人。 The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe. 1:24 於是他們起身上山地去，到以實各谷，窺探那地。 They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and explored it. 1:25 他們手裏拿著那地的果子下來，到我們那裏，回報說：『耶和華─我們的 神所賜給我們的是美地。』 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, <<It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.>> 1:26 「你們卻不肯上去，竟違背了耶和華─你們 神的命令， But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. 1:27 在帳棚內發怨言說：『耶和華因為恨我們，所以將我們從埃及地領出來，要交在亞摩利人手中，除滅我們。 You grumbled in your tents and said, <<The LORD hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us. 1:28 我們上哪裏去呢？我們的弟兄使我們的心消化，說那地的民比我們又大又高，城邑又廣大又堅固，高得頂天，並且我們在那裏看見亞衲族的人。』 Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart. They say, <The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.> >> 1:29 我就對你們說：『不要驚恐，也不要怕他們。 Then I said to you, <<Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. 1:30 在你們前面行的耶和華─你們的 神必為你們爭戰，正如他在埃及和曠野，在你們眼前所行的一樣。 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 1:31 你們在曠野所行的路上，也曾見耶和華─你們的 神撫養你們，如同人撫養兒子一般，直等你們來到這地方。』 and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.>> 1:32 你們在這事上卻不信耶和華─你們的 神。 In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, 1:33 他在路上，在你們前面行，為你們找安營的地方；夜間在火柱裏，日間在雲柱裏，指示你們所當行的路。」 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go. 1:34 「耶和華聽見你們這話，就發怒，起誓說： When the LORD heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: 1:35 『這惡世代的人，連一個也不得見我起誓應許賜給你們列祖的美地； <<Not a man of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your forefathers, 1:36 惟有耶孚尼的兒子迦勒必得看見，並且我要將他所踏過的地賜給他和他的子孫，因為他專心跟從我。』 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.>> 1:37 耶和華為你們的緣故也向我發怒，說：『你必不得進入那地。 Because of you the LORD became angry with me also and said, <<You shall not enter it, either. 1:38 伺候你、嫩的兒子約書亞，他必得進入那地；你要勉勵他，因為他要使以色列人承受那地為業。 But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it. 1:39 並且你們的婦人孩子，就是你們所說、必被擄掠的，和今日不知善惡的兒女，必進入那地。我要將那地賜給他們，他們必得為業。 And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad--they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it. 1:40 至於你們，要轉回，從紅海的路往曠野去。』 But as for you, turn around and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.>> 1:40 Hebrew ((Yam Suph)); that is, Sea of Reeds 1:41 「那時，你們回答我說：『我們得罪了耶和華，情願照耶和華─我們 神一切所吩咐的上去爭戰。』於是你們各人帶著兵器，爭先上山地去了。 Then you replied, <<We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God commanded us.>> So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country. 1:42 耶和華吩咐我說：『你對他們說：不要上去，也不要爭戰；因我不在你們中間，恐怕你們被仇敵殺敗了。』 But the LORD said to me, <<Tell them, <Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.> >> 1:43 我就告訴了你們，你們卻不聽從，竟違背耶和華的命令，擅自上山地去了。 So I told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the LORD's command and in your arrogance you marched up into the hill country. 1:44 住那山地的亞摩利人就出來攻擊你們，追趕你們，如蜂擁一般，在西珥殺退你們，直到何珥瑪。 The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah. 1:45 你們便回來，在耶和華面前哭號；耶和華卻不聽你們的聲音，也不向你們側耳。 You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you. 1:46 於是你們在加低斯住了許多日子。」 And so you stayed in Kadesh many days--all the time you spent there. 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二月廿四日 「約翰一件神蹟沒有行；但約翰指著這人所說的一切話都是真的。」約翰福音十章41節 也許你對於自己非常不滿意，因為你既不是一個天才，又沒有顯著的恩賜，又沒有特別的技能。雖然你的生活頂平庸，你的日子都是平淡無味的，然而你仍舊可以活出一個偉大的、非常的生命來。 約翰一件神蹟沒有行過，但是主耶穌讚許他說：「凡婦人所生的，沒有一個興起來大過施洗約翰的。」 約翰惟一的職務，是為光作見證，這件事是你我都作得到的。約翰的目的，只要有人需要基督，他自己只作一個聲音就滿足了，你我亦該如此。 甘願只作一個聲音，只能被聽見，不能被看見；甘願只作一面鏡子，因反射日光的榮耀，以至鏡面被隱蔽；甘願只作黎明的微風，早晨起來報告：「白日將至！白日將至！」一會兒遂即隱逝，作主的工作也是如此。 或許你作的是一件最普通，最微小的事情，絕沒有人注意你，但是這正是主所派你的工作。如果你生活在性情不相投的人們中間，你就當用愛心去戰勝他們。如果你有了錯誤，不要讓它伸長開來，而遮蔽了一切，你要把它深鎖在胸中，消除它和戰敗它。 也許不知不覺間我們自己還不知道，我們已經作了頂美的工作：撒種、通水泉、領人對基督有正當的認識……雖然沒有廣告替我們鼓吹，沒有紀念碑為我們建立，然而我的心已經滿足，如果有人——只有一個人也不妨——能說： 「……他一件神蹟沒有行過，但是因著他見證的聲音，我們就親自認識主了。」 ─馬得勝 「您所隱藏的人。」（詩八三3） 從泥土裏， 萌茁了濃濃的緣葉， 這是由於春風的呼喚與吹拂， 葉子底下微微的清香， 預示著花之將發。 多麼美好的花， 躲在葉子下面， 為我們粗疏的目光所沒有發現， 揭開葉子讓粉紅或純白的五月花， 仰起頭來迎接外面射來的亮光。 不是正有這樣的生命， 他的美德善行， 只被洞燭幾微的神所看見， 有如隱在葉下的花， 長得無比的美艷？ 被摧殘的靈魂開出了， 純潔美麗的信與愛之花， 因為葉子的遮掩， 隱沒了它可愛的容華。 忠義之花， 冠蓋群芳， 生長在人所不見的地方， 奇妙的是藏在葉下的花， 發出最甜蜜的芬芳。 我們模糊的視覺雖無所見， 一苞一萼， 祂卻完全知道； 安心等待聖光的啟示， 總有一天， 主會親手揭開葉子， 顯出它的美好。 許多神最寶貴的工人， 都是從普通的人群裏呼召出來的。（太十四23）
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月24日）
February 24 "John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true." (John 10:41.) ＹOU may be very discontented with yourself. You are no genius, have no brilliant gifts, and are inconspicuous for any special faculty. Mediocrity is the law of your existence. Your days are remarkable for nothing but sameness and insipidity. Yet you may live a great life. John did no miracle, but Jesus said that among those born of women there had not appeared a greater than he. John's main business was to bear witness to the Light, and this may be yours and mine. John was content to be only a voice, if men would think of Christ. Be willing to be only a voice, heard but not seen; a mirror whose surface is lost to view, because it reflects the dazzling glory of the sun; a breeze that springs up just before daylight, and says, "The dawn! the dawn!" and then dies away. Do the commonest and smallest things as beneath His eye. If you must live with uncongenial people, set to their conquest by love. If you have made a great mistake in your life, do not let it becloud all of it; but, locking the secret in your breast, compel it to yield strength and sweetness. We are doing more good than we know, sowing seeds, starting streamlets, giving men true thoughts of Christ, to which they will refer one day as the first things that started them thinking of Him; and, of my part, I shall be satisfied if no great mausoleum is raised over my grave, but that simple souls shall gather there when I am gone, and say, "He was a good man; he wrought no miracles, but he spake words about Christ, which led me to know Him for myself." ─George Matheson. "THY HIDDEN ONES" (psa. 83:3.) "Thick green leaves from the soft brown earth, Happy springtime hath called them forth; First faint promise of summer bloom, Breathes from the fragrant, sweet perfume, Under the leaves. "Lift them! what marvelous beauty lies, Hidden beneath, from our thoughtless eyes! Mayflowers, rosy or purest white, Lift their cups to the sudden light, Under the leaves. "Are there no lives whose holy deeds─ Seen by no eye save His who reads Motive and action─in silence grow, Into rare beauty, and bud and blow Under the leaves? "Fair white flowers of faith and trust, Springing from spirts bruised and crushed; Blossoms of love, rose-tinted and bright, Touched and painted with Heaven's own light Under the leaves. "Full fresh clusters of duty borne, Fairest of all in that shadow grown; Wondrous the fragrance that sweet and rare, Comes from the flower-cups hidden there Under the leaves. "Though unseen by our vision dim, Bud and blossom are known to Him; Wait we content for His heavenly ray─ Wait till our Master Himself one day Lifteth the leaves." "God calls many of His most valued workers from the unknown multitude." (Luke 14:23.)
■ 永活之泉（02月24日）
二月廿四日 神的慈愛 「你們要稱謝耶和華，因祂本為善，祂的慈愛永遠長存。」詩篇一三六篇1節 這篇詩，完全是讚美神的慈愛。在這廿六節中，我們看見每一節都有：「祂的慈愛永遠長存。」詩人心中充滿了這個喜樂的思想，我們的心中也應當充滿了這賜福的保證。神永遠不改變的慈愛，是我們不止息地讚美和感謝的緣由。 讓我們看詩篇一○三篇怎樣述說神的慈愛：「我的心哪，你要稱頌耶和華，……祂以仁愛和慈悲為你的冠冕。」（1、4節）在神一切的屬性中，慈愛是祂的冠冕；但願這個也成為我們頭上和生命中的冠冕。「耶和華有憐憫，有恩典，不輕易發怒，且有豐盛的慈愛。」（8節）神的偉大，是何等的奇妙；照樣，祂的慈愛也是何等的無限。「天離地何等的高，祂的慈愛向敬畏祂的人，也是何等的大。」（11節）這是何等的思想！像天離地那樣的高，神的慈愛，要帶下祂豐富的祝福，也是測不透的人。「耶和華的慈愛，歸於敬畏祂的人，從亙古到永遠。」（17節）在這裡，詩人又重新說到那無邊無涯的慈愛和憐憫。 哦！我的心哪，多少次讀到這些話，都沒有思想到這測不透的偉大。要安靜默想，直到你的心響應詩篇卅六篇的話：「耶和華啊，您的慈愛上及諸天……，神啊，您的慈愛何其寶貴！世人投靠在您翅膀的蔭下。……，願您常施慈愛給認識您的人。」 哦，我的魂哪，我們要在極大的喜樂中稱頌感謝神，因為祂以奇妙的慈愛，作為你的冠冕，並且說：「您的慈愛比生命更好。」（詩六十三3）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月24日）
二月廿四日 犧牲的快樂 「我也甘心樂意為你們……費財費力。」哥林多後書十二章15節 神的靈將祂的愛澆灌到我們心裡的時候，我們就能將自己與耶穌基督對於人類所具的興趣化合起來，而耶穌基督對於各種人都具有興趣。我們在基督徒的事工中，不可受我們各方面的關係的指導；這是我們對耶穌基督關係中的一個最大的試驗。犧牲的快樂，在於為朋友捨命，不在於將生命隨隨便便的拋棄，卻是有意的為祂和祂對於人類所具的興趣而送掉，不是為甚麼運動。保羅僅為一件事犧牲自己──就是要得人順服耶穌基督。保羅無時無刻不注視耶穌，從未注視自己。「向甚麼樣的人，我就作甚麼樣的人，無論如何，總要救些人。」當某人說他定要向神開展一種聖潔生活的時候，他對於他的同胞再沒有甚麼用處；是將他自己放在臺上了，怎能與人們的生活發生關係呢？保羅把自己看為犧牲品；所以他無論往那裡，聽耶穌基督隨意使用。我們中有許多人是追求我們自己的目的，所以耶穌基督不能隨意使用我們。如果我們服從耶穌，我們就不服從自己的目的去做事。保羅說他知道怎樣處卑賤，因為他生活的本源是崇敬耶穌。我們易於不崇敬耶穌基督，卻易於崇敬那些解脫我們靈性的事。保羅不照他的動機：「為我弟兄，就是自己被咒詛，與基督分離，我也願意。」──這是胡說亂道麼？一個具有愛心的人，像這樣表白，並非過分，保羅真真是愛耶穌基督的。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月24日）
二月廿四日 「罪必不能作你們的主，因你們不在律法之下，乃在恩典之中」羅馬書六章14節 摩西失敗的原因在於：「(律法原來一無所成)就引進了更美的指望。」(來七19)也因此他一生的工作不能完全實現。他看到迦南地卻無法進入；他是律法的起草人，但也是其受害者；他的生及死可說是說明律法無法領人到應許之地的最佳證據。得知摩西僅僅因為一點小錯誤，而失去了他所有的遺產，使我更加願意強調法律嚴刑：「……凡不常照律法書上所記一切之事去行的，就被咒詛。」(加三10) 但是藉著神恩典的榮耀，我們可以加上「律法不能為摩西所行的，福音卻能成就。」那因舊約律法緣故不能渡過約但河的人，卻能與神的兒子同站在黑門山上，分享主改變形像時的榮耀，談論祂在髑髏地上永續的榮耀。 那樣的恩典，我們只有在耶穌基督的福音下始能得著。
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