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Homilies on Genesis 9 part 2/2

Greek original · 17 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 9:239–9:255 (255 verses in all)

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9:239

Ἔζησε Λάμεχ ἔτη ὀκτὼ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν, καὶ ἐγέννησεν υἱὸν, καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Νῶε, λέγων·

'Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-eight years, and begot a son, and called his name Noah, saying:'

「拉麥活到一百八十八歲，生了一個兒子，就給他起名叫挪亞，說：」

9:240

Οὗτος διαναπαύσει ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν πόνων ἡμῶν, καὶ τῶν λυπῶν, καὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν χειρῶν ἡμῶν, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, ἧς κατηράσατο ὁ Θεός

'This one shall give us rest from our labors and our sorrows, and from the works of our hands, and from the earth which God has cursed.'

「這個必使我們脫離我們手中勞苦愁煩的工作得安息，並脫離神所咒詛的地。」

9:241

Τί λέγεις, Ἀναπαύσει ἡμᾶς; Καὶ διὰ τί μὴ εἶπε, φησὶν, Οὗτος ἀποκτενεῖ ἡμᾶς, οὗτος ποιήσει τὸν κατακλυσμὸν γενέσθαι·

What do you say? 'He shall give us rest'? And why, one asks, did he not say, 'This one shall slay us, this one shall cause the Flood to come to pass';

你說什麼？「他必使我們得安息」？有人問，他為什麼不說：「這個必殺我們，這個必使洪水臨到」；

9:242

ἀλλ' εἶπεν, Ἀναπαύσει ἡμᾶς; Ἀνεστοιχειώθη ἡ κτίσις ἅπασα, ἄβυσσοι ἀνεῤῥάγησαν κάτωθεν, καταῤῥάκται ἀνεῴχθησαν ἄνωθεν, ἅπαντα πέλαγος ἦν ξένον καὶ παράδοξον καὶ φρικῶδες, καὶ ἐν τάφῳ κοινῷ τῇ ἰλύϊ καὶ σώματα ἀνθρώπων καὶ σώματα ἵππων καὶ θηρίων ἐκρύπτετο·

but instead said, 'He shall give us rest'? The whole creation was thrown back into chaos, the deeps were burst open from below, the floodgates were opened from above, everything was a strange and marvelous and dreadful sea, and in one common grave, in the mire, both the bodies of men and the bodies of horses and of beasts were hidden;

反倒說：「他必使我們得安息」？整個受造之物都被攪亂回到混沌，深淵從下面裂開，天上的閘門從上面敞開，一切都成了陌生、離奇而可怖的汪洋，在那共同的墳墓、淤泥之中，人的屍體、馬和野獸的屍體都被隱藏了；

9:243

καὶ τοσαῦτα κακὰ, εἰπέ μοι, καὶ τοσαύτην συμφορὰν ἀνάπαυσιν καλεῖς; Ναὶ, φησίν

and so many evils, tell me, and so great a calamity—do you call this 'rest'? 'Yes,' he says.

告訴我，這麼多的災禍，這麼大的災難，你竟稱之為「安息」嗎？他說：「是的。」

9:244

Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐν κακίᾳ ἔζων οἱ ἄνθρωποι, ὁ δὲ κατακλυσμὸς τὴν κακίαν ἀνέκοψεν, οἱ τῆς κακίας ἀπαλλαγέντες ἀνέπαυσαν

For since men were living in wickedness, and the Flood cut short their wickedness, those who were delivered from wickedness were given rest.

因為人既活在邪惡之中，而洪水制止了那邪惡，那些從邪惡中得釋放的人就得了安息。

9:245

Καθάπερ γὰρ σῶμα ποικίλοις νοσήμασι κατεχόμενον, καὶ ἰατρείαν οὐδεμίαν εὑρίσκον, ἐὰν ἐπελθὼν ὁ θάνατος λαβῇ, ἀνέπαυσεν·

For just as a body held fast by manifold diseases, and finding no cure, when death comes and takes it, is given rest;

正如一個身體被各樣的疾病所轄制，尋不著醫治，當死亡臨到把它取去時，就得了安息；

9:246

οὕτω δὴ καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐκείνων γενεὰν, καθάπερ σῶμα ἀνίατα νόσουν καὶ πολλοῖς προκατειλημμένον δεινοῖς παραμυθίαν οὐδεμίαν ἔχουσιν,. ἐπελθὼν ὁ κατακλυσμὸς ἐξήρπασε καὶ ἀνέπαυσεν

so also that generation of those men, being like a body sick with incurable diseases and beset by many terrors past all comfort, the Flood, coming upon it, snatched it away and gave it rest.

照樣，那些人的世代，如同一個患了不治之症、被許多禍患所困而毫無安慰的身體，洪水臨到，就把它奪去，使它得了安息。

9:247

Εἰ γὰρ Θάνατος ἀνδρὶ ἀνάπαυσις, πολλῷ μᾶλλον τοῖς ἐν κακίᾳ ἀδιορθώτως ζῶσιν ἀνάπαυσις ὁ θάνατος, τῶν πόνων αὐτοὺς ἀπαλλάττων, καὶ οὐκ ἐῶν περαιτέρω τῆς πονηρίας τὴν νομὴν προελθεῖν, οὐδὲ βαρύτερον τοῦ ὄντος γενέσθαι τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων τὸ φορτίον

For if 'death is rest for a man,' much more is death a rest for those living in wickedness without amendment, freeing them from their toils, and not permitting the spread of their wickedness to advance further, nor the burden of their sins to become heavier than it already is.

因為若「死亡對人而言乃是安息」，那麼對那些活在邪惡中毫不悔改的人，死亡更是安息，使他們脫離勞苦，不容他們邪惡的蔓延進一步擴散，也不容他們罪的擔子比現今變得更加沉重。

9:248

Οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτω βαρὺ καὶ δυσβάστακτον, ὡς ἁμαρτίας φύσις·

For nothing is so heavy and hard to bear as the nature of sin;

因為沒有什麼像罪的本性那樣沉重難擔；

9:249

οὐδὲν οὕτω κάματον καὶ πόνον ἡμῖν παρέχει, ὡς τὸ τῆς πονηρίας εἶδος καὶ τὰ πλημμελήματα

nothing so gives us weariness and toil as the form of wickedness and our transgressions.

沒有什麼像邪惡的樣式和我們的過犯那樣使我們疲乏勞苦。

9:250

Διὰ τοῦτο ὁ Χριστὸς τοῖς ἐν ἁμαρτίαις ζῶσι ἔλεγε·

Therefore Christ said to those living in sins:

所以基督對那些活在罪中的人說：

9:251

Δεῦτε πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κἀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς

'Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'

「凡勞苦擔重擔的，都到我這裡來，我要使你們得安息。」

9:252

Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ Λάμεχ ἀνάπαυσιν τὸν κατακλυσμὸν ἐκάλεσεν, ἐπελθόντα καὶ στήσαντα τὴν πονηρίαν

For this reason Lamech too called the Flood 'rest,' since it came and put a stop to their wickedness.

因這緣故，拉麥也把洪水稱為「安息」，因為它臨到，止住了那邪惡。

9:253

Ἐβουλόμην περαιτέρω τὸν λόγον ἐκτεῖναι τοῦτον·

I could wish to extend this discourse further;

我本想把這篇話語再延伸下去；

9:254

καὶ γὰρ πολλὰ ὑπολέλειπται ἀπὸ τῆς προσηγορίας τοῦ Νῶε·

for much still remains concerning the name of Noah;

因為關於挪亞這名字，還有許多沒有講到；

9:255

ἀλλὰ τέως ταῦτα τῇ μνήμῃ τῆς ὑμετέρας διανοίας ἐναποθέμενοι, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἡμετέρους ἀδελφοὺς τοὺς ἀπολειφθέντας εἰπόντες, ἵνα μὴ πάλιν ἀναγκαζώμεθα μακρότερα ποιεῖν τὰ προοίμια, τῶν εἰρημένων τὴν ἀκολουθίαν ἀναλαμβάνοντες, εἰς εὐχὰς τὸν λόγον καταλύσωμεν, εὐχαριστοῦντες τῷ ταῦτα δεδωκότι εἰπεῖν Θεῷ, ὅτι αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων

but for the present, having laid these things up in the memory of your minds, and having repeated them to our brethren who have been left behind—so that we may not again be compelled to make our introductions longer—let us take up the sequence of what has been said, and bring our discourse to a close in prayers, giving thanks to God who has granted us to speak these things; for to Him be the glory, unto the ages of ages.

但眼下，你們既把這些事存放在你們心思的記憶中，又向那些缺席的弟兄們複述——免得我們又被迫把開場白拉得更長——就讓我們接續已經所說的，在禱告中結束這篇話語，感謝那賜我們講說這些事的神；願榮耀歸與祂，直到世世代代。

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