Apologies & Dialogue 3-111

Greek original · 4 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

3-111:1

Καὶ ὅτι δύο παρουσίας συμβολικῶς γενήσεσθαι τούτου τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ὑπὸ Μωσέως προελέγετο, προεῖπον διὰ τοῦ συμβόλου τῶν ἐν τῇ νηστείᾳ προσφερομένων τράγων. Καὶ πάλιν ἐν οἷς ἐποίησαν Μωσῆς καὶ Ἰησοῦς τὸ αὐτὸ προκηρυσσόμενον συμβολικῶς ἦν καὶ λεγόμενον.Ὁ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν τὰς χεῖρας ἐκτείνας ἐπὶ τοῦ βουνοῦ μέχρις ἑσπέρας ἔμενεν, ὑποβασταζομένων τῶν χειρῶν, ὃ οὐδενὸς ἄλλου τύπον δείκνυσιν ἢ τοῦ σταυροῦ, ὁ δὲ τῷ Ἰησοῦ ὀνόματι μετονομασθεὶς ἦρχε τῆς μάχης, καὶ ἐνίκα Ἰσραήλ

And that two comings of this Christ were to take place symbolically was foretold also by Moses, as I said before, through the symbol of the goats offered at the fast. And again, in what Moses and Joshua did, the same thing was being proclaimed beforehand symbolically and in word. For the one of them, stretching out his hands, remained upon the hill until evening, his hands being held up—which shows the type of nothing else than the cross; while the other, who was renamed by the name Jesus, led the battle, and Israel was victorious.

這基督要兩次來臨，是藉象徵預言的，如我先前所說，藉著禁食時所獻之公山羊的象徵。再者，在摩西和約書亞所行的事上，同一件事也藉象徵和言語預先宣告了。因為他們中的一位伸開手，停留在山上直到晚上，他的手被扶著——這不顯出別的，正是十字架的預表；而另一位，被改名為約書亞（耶穌）的，領導爭戰，以色列就得了勝。

3-111:2

Ἦν δὲ καὶ τοῦτο ἐπ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν ἁγίων ἀνδρῶν ἐκείνων καὶ προφητῶν τοῦ θεοῦ νοῆσαι γεγενημένον, ὅτι ἀμφότερα τὰ μυστήρια εἷς αὐτῶν βαστάσαι οὐκ ἦν δυνατός, λέγω δὲ τὸν τύπον τοῦ σταυροῦ καὶ τὸν τύπον τῆς τοῦ ὀνόματος ἐπικλήσεως· ἑνὸς γὰρ μόνου ἡ ἰσχὺς αὕτη ἐστὶ καὶ ἦν καὶ ἔσται, οὗ καὶ τὸ ὄνομα πᾶσα ἀρχὴ δέδιεν, ὠδίνουσα ὅτι δι αὐτοῦ καταλύεσθαι μέλλουσιν.Ὁ οὖν παθητὸς ἡμῶν καὶ σταυρωθεὶς Χριστὸς οὐ κατηράθη ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου, ἀλλὰ μόνος σώσειν τοὺς μὴ ἀφισταμένους τῆς πίστεως αὐτοῦ ἐδήλου

And this too was given to be understood as having taken place in those two holy men and prophets of God, namely, that one of them could not bear both mysteries—I mean the type of the cross and the type of the calling upon the name; for this strength is, and was, and shall be of one alone, whose name every principality dreads, being in travail because they are to be destroyed through Him. Our Christ, therefore, who suffered and was crucified, was not cursed by the Law, but showed that He alone would save those who do not depart from faith in Him.

這事也被賜下叫人領悟，就是這兩位聖潔之人、神的先知所成就的，乃是他們中一位無法擔當這兩個奧祕——我是說十字架的預表和呼求名的預表；因為這力量是、曾是、且將是惟獨一位所有的，諸權勢都懼怕祂的名，因牠們要藉祂被毀滅而陣痛。因此我們這位受苦並被釘十字架的基督，並未被律法咒詛，乃是顯明惟有祂要拯救那些不離棄對祂之信心的人。

3-111:3

Καὶ τοὺς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δὲ σωθέντας, ὅτε ἀπώλλυντο τὰ πρωτότοκα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, τὸ τοῦ πάσχα ἐρρύσατο αἷμα, τὸ ἑκατέρωσε τῶν σταθμῶν καὶ τοῦ ὑπερθύρου χρισθέν. Ἦν γὰρ τὸ πάσχα ὁ Χριστός, ὁ τυθεὶς ὕστερον, ὡς καὶ Ἡσαςΐας ἔφη· Αὐτὸς ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη. Καὶ ὅτι ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ πάσχα συνελάβετε αὐτὸν καὶ ὁμοίως ἐν τῷ πάσχα ἐσταυρώσατε, γέγραπται. Ὡς δὲ τοὺς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἔσωσε τὸ αἷμα τοῦ πάσχα, οὕτως καὶ τοῦς πιστεύσαντας ῥύσεται ἐκ θανάτου τὸ αἷμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ

And those in Egypt who were saved, when the firstborn of the Egyptians were perishing, the blood of the Passover delivered, the blood smeared on both doorposts and on the lintel. For the Passover was Christ, who was afterward sacrificed, as Isaiah also said: 'He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.' And that on the day of the Passover you seized Him, and likewise crucified Him at the Passover, is written. And as the blood of the Passover saved those in Egypt, so also the blood of Christ shall deliver from death those who have believed.

在埃及那些得救的人，當埃及人的長子滅亡時，是逾越節的血救了他們，就是塗在門框兩邊和門楣上的血。因為逾越節就是基督，祂後來被獻為祭，正如以賽亞也說：「祂像羊被牽到宰殺之地。」並且記著你們在逾越節那日捉拿了祂，又同樣在逾越節把祂釘了十字架。正如逾越節的血救了在埃及的人，照樣基督的血也要救那些已經相信的人脫離死亡。

3-111:4

Ἔμελλεν οὖν ὁ θεὸς πλανᾶσθαι, εἰ μὴ τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο ἐπὶ τῶν θυρῶν ἐγεγόνει; Οὔ φημι ἐγώ, ἀλλ ὅτι προεκήρυσσε τὴν μέλλουσαν δι αἵματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ γενήσεσθαι σωτηρίαν τῷ γένει τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Καὶ γὰρ τὸ σύμβολον τοῦ κοκκίνου σπαρτίου, οὗ ἔδωκαν ἐν Ἱεριχῶ οἱ ἀπὸ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Ναυῆ πεμφθέντες κατάσκοποι Ῥαὰβ τῇ πόρνῃ, εἰπόντες προσδῆσαι αὐτὸ τῇ θυρίδι, δι ἧς αὐτοὺς ἐχάλασεν ὅπως λάθωσι τοὺς πολεμίους, ὁμοίως τὸ σύμβολον τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐδήλου, δι οὗ οἱ πάλαι πόρνοι καὶ ἄδικοι ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν σώζονται, ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν λαβόντες καὶ μηκέτι ἁμαρτάνοντες

Was God, then, going to be deceived, if this sign had not been on the doors? I do not say so, but rather that it proclaimed beforehand the salvation that was to come to the human race through the blood of Christ. For the symbol of the scarlet cord, which the spies sent by Joshua the son of Nun gave to Rahab the harlot in Jericho, telling her to bind it to the window through which she let them down so that they might escape the enemy, likewise signified the symbol of the blood of Christ, by which those of all the nations who were formerly fornicators and unjust are saved, receiving forgiveness of sins and sinning no more.

那麼，若門上沒有這記號，神難道會受蒙蔽嗎？我不是這樣說，乃是說這記號預先宣告了那要藉基督的血臨到人類的拯救。因為那朱紅繩子的象徵，就是嫩的兒子約書亞所差的探子在耶利哥交給妓女喇合的——叫她把繩子繫在她放他們縋下、好叫他們逃脫仇敵的窗戶上——同樣表明基督之血的象徵，藉此各國從前行淫、不義的人得救，得著罪的赦免，不再犯罪。

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