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Apologies & Dialogue 3-20

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3-20:1

Καὶ γὰρ βρωμάτων τινῶν ἀπέχεσθαι προσέταξεν ὑμῖν, ἵνα καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐσθίειν καὶ πίνειν πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν ἔχητε τὸν θεόν, εὐκατάφοροι ὄντες καὶ εὐχερεῖς πρὸς τὸ ἀφίστασθαι τῆς γνώσεως αὐτοῦ, ὡς καὶ Μωσῆς φησιν· Ἔφαγε καὶ ἔπιεν ὁ λαὸς καὶ ἀνέστη τοῦ παίζειν. Καὶ πάλιν· Ἔφαγεν Ἰακὼβ καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη, καὶ ἐλιπάνθη, καὶ ἀπελάκτισεν ὁ ἠγαπημένος· ἐλιπάνθη, ἐπαχύνθη, ἐπλατύνθη, καὶ ἐγκατέλιπε θεὸν τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν. Τῷ γὰρ Νῶε ὃτι συγκεχώρητο ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, δικαίῳ ὄντι, πᾶν ἔμψυχον ἐσθίειν πλὴν κρέας ἐν αἵματι, ὅπερ ἐστὶ νεκριμαῖον, διὰ Μωσέως ἀνιστορήθη ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ τῆς Γενέσεως

Moreover, He commanded you to abstain from certain foods, so that even in eating and drinking you might keep God before your eyes, since you are prone and ready to fall away from the knowledge of Him; as Moses also says: 'The people ate and drank and rose up to play.' And again: 'Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved grew fat and kicked; he grew fat, he became thick, he became broad, and he forsook God who made him.' For that it was permitted by God to Noah, being a righteous man, to eat every living thing except flesh with the blood in it—that is, what dies of itself—was recorded for you through Moses in the book of Genesis.

再者，祂吩咐你們戒絕某些食物，為要使你們連在吃喝之時也把神擺在眼前，因為你們本是容易傾向、輕易離棄祂之知識的；正如摩西所說：『百姓坐下吃喝，起來玩耍。』又說：『雅各吃了就飽足，那蒙愛的長得肥胖，便踢跳；他肥胖了、粗壯了、寬大了，就離棄造他的神。』至於神曾准許義人挪亞吃一切有生命的活物，惟獨帶血的肉，就是自死的，不可吃——這事已藉摩西記在創世記的書上，給你們知道了。

3-20:2

Καὶ βουλομένου αὐτοῦ εἰπεὶν Ὡς λάχανα χόρτου, προεῖπον ἐγώ· Τὸ ὡς λάχανα χόρτου τοῦ μὴ ἀκούσεσθε ὡς εἴρηται ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, ὅτι ὡς τὰ λάχανα εἰς τροφὴν τῳ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐπεποιήκει ὁ θεός, οὕτως καὶ τὰ ζῶα εἰς κρεωφαγίαν ἐδεδώκει; Ἀλλ ἐπεί τινα τῶν χόρτων οὐκ ἐσθίομεν, οὕτω καὶ διαστολήν ἔκτοτε τῷ Νῶε διεστάλθαι φατέ

And as he was about to say, 'as the green herb,' I anticipated him: 'When God said "as the green herb," will you not understand it thus—that as God had made the herbs for man's food, so too He had given the animals for the eating of flesh? But since there are certain herbs we do not eat, you say that in like manner a distinction was at that time laid down for Noah.'

他正要說『如同青菜蔬草』時，我便先說：『神說「如同青菜蔬草」，你們豈不該這樣領會麼——正如神為人造了菜蔬作食物，照樣也把走獸賜下作肉食？但既有些菜蔬我們不吃，你們便說，從那時起也照樣對挪亞立了分別。』

3-20:3

Οὐκ ὡς ἐξηγεῖσθε πιστευτέον. Πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ὅτι πᾶν λάχανον χόρτου ἔστι καὶ βιβρώσκεσθαι δυνάμενος λέγειν καὶ κρατύνειν, οὐκ ἐν τούτῳ ἀσχοληθήσομαι. Ἀλλὰ εἰ καὶ τὰ λάχανα τοῦ χόρτου διακρίνομεν, μὴ πάντα ἐσθίοντες, οὐ διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτὰ κοινὰ ἢ ἀκάθαρτα οὐκ ἐσθίομεν, ἀλλ ἢ διὰ τὸ πικρὰ ἢ θανάσιμα ἢ ἀκανθώδη· τῶν δὲ γλυκέων πάντων καὶ τροφιμωτάτων καὶ καλλίστων, θαλασσίων τε καὶ χερσαίων, ἐφιέμεθα καὶ μετέχομεν

One must not believe it as you expound it. For first, that every herb of the field can also be said and maintained to be edible—on this point I will not dwell. But even if we do distinguish among the herbs of the field, not eating them all, it is not because they are common or unclean that we refrain from them, but rather because they are bitter, or deadly, or thorny; whereas of all that are sweet and most nourishing and finest, both of the sea and of the land, we desire and partake.

不可照你們所講解的去相信。首先，田間每一樣的菜蔬都可以說是、也可堅持是能吃的——這一點我不打算多費唇舌。但縱然我們在田間的菜蔬中有所分別，不全都吃，那也不是因為它們是俗的或不潔的而不吃，乃是因為它們苦、或有毒、或多刺；至於一切甘甜、最有營養、最美好的，無論海裡的或陸地的，我們都樂意取用、有分享用。

3-20:4

Οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἀκαθάρτων καὶ ἀδίκων καὶ παρανόμων ἀπέχεσθαι ὑμᾶς ἐκέλευσεν ὁ θεὸς διὰ Μωσέως, ἐπειδὴ καὶ τὸ μάννα ἐσθίοντες ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ καὶ τὰ θαυμάσια πάντα ὁρῶντες ὑμῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ γινόμενα, μόσχον τὸν χρύσεον ποιήσαντες προσεκυνεῖτε. Ὥστε δικαίως ἀεὶ βοᾷ· Υἱοὶ ἀσύνετοι, οὐκ ἔστι πίστις ἐν αὐτοῖς

So too God commanded you, through Moses, to abstain from things unclean and unjust and lawless, since even while eating the manna in the wilderness and beholding all the wonders God wrought for you, you made the golden calf and worshipped it. Wherefore He justly cries out forever: 'They are foolish sons, in whom there is no faith.'

照樣，神也藉摩西吩咐你們戒絕那不潔、不義、違法的事，因為你們在曠野吃嗎哪、又親眼看見神為你們行的一切奇事之時，竟造了金牛犢去敬拜。因此祂始終公義地呼喊說：『他們是愚昧無知的兒女，心中毫無信實。』

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