Apologies & Dialogue 3-16

Greek original · 5 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

3-16:1

Καὶ διὰ Μωσέως κέκραγεν ὁ θεὸς αὐτός, οὕτως λέγων· Καὶ περιτεμεῖσθε τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν ὑμῶν καὶ τὸν τράχηλον οὐ σκληρυνεῖτε ἔτι· ὁ γὰρ κύριος, ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν καὶ κύριος τῶν κυρίων, θεὸς μέγας καὶ ἰσχυρὸς καὶ φοβερός, ὅστις οὐ θαυμάζει πρόσωπον οὐδὲ μὴ λάβῃ δῶρον. Καὶ ἐν τῷ Λευιτικῷ· Ὅτι παρέβησαν καὶ ὑπερεῖδόν με καὶ ὅτι ἐπορεύθησαν ἐναντίον μου πλάγιοι, καὶ ἐγὼ ἐπορεύθην μετ αὐτῶν πλαγίως, καὶ ἀπολῶ αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ γῇ τῶν ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν. Τότε ἐντραπήσεται ἡ καρδία ἡ ἀπερίτμητος αὐτῶν

And through Moses God himself cried out, speaking thus: "And you shall circumcise your hardness of heart, and you shall no longer stiffen your neck; for the Lord your God and Lord of lords is a great and mighty and fearful God, who does not show partiality to any face, nor will he take a bribe." And in Leviticus: "Because they transgressed and disregarded me, and because they walked perversely against me, I also will walk perversely against them, and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies. Then their uncircumcised heart shall be ashamed."

神又親自藉著摩西呼喊，這樣說：「你們要將你們的硬心受割禮，不可再硬著頸項；因為耶和華你們的神，乃是萬主之主，是至大、至能、至可畏的神，他不偏待人的面，也不受賄賂。」又在利未記中說：「因為他們干犯我、藐視我，又行事與我作對，我也要行事與他們作對，把他們滅在仇敵之地。那時他們未受割禮的心必覺羞慚。」

3-16:2

Ἡ γὰρ ἀπὸ Ἀβραὰμ κατὰ σάρκα περιτομὴ εἰς σημεῖον ἐδόθη, ἵνα ἦτε ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν καὶ ἡμῶν ἀφωρισμένοι, καὶ ἵνα μόνοι πάθητεἃ νῦν ἐν δίκῃ πάσχετε, καὶ ἵνα γένωνται αἱ χῶραι ὑμῶν ἔρημοι καὶ αἱ πόλεις πυρίκαυστοι, καὶ τοὺς καρποὺς ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν κατεσθίωσιν ἀλλότριοι, καὶ μηδεὶς ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐπιβαίνῃ εἰς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ

For the circumcision according to the flesh, which came from Abraham, was given as a sign, that you might be separated from the other nations and from us, and that you alone might suffer the things you now justly suffer, and that your lands might become desolate and your cities burned with fire, and that strangers might devour your fruits before your eyes, and that none of you might set foot in Jerusalem.

因為從亞伯拉罕而來、按肉體的割禮，原是作為記號賜下的，叫你們與別的民族、並與我們分別出來，又叫惟獨你們承受你們如今照公義所受的苦，使你們的境地荒涼，城邑被火焚燒，又使外邦人在你們眼前吞喫你們地的出產，並且你們中間無一人得以踏進耶路撒冷。

3-16:3

Οὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἄλλου τινὸς γνωρίζεσθε παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους, ἢ ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν σαρκὶ ὑμῶν περιτομῆς. Οὐδεὶς γὰρ ὑμῶν, ὡς νομίζω, τολμήσει εἰπεῖν ὅτι μὴ καὶ προγνώστης τῶν γίνεσθαι μελλόντων ἦν καὶ ἔστιν ὁ θεὸς καὶ τὰ ἄξια ἑκάστῳ προετοιμάζων. Καὶ ὑμῖν οὖν ταῦτα καλῶς καὶ δικαίως γέγονεν

For you are distinguished from other men by nothing else than the circumcision in your flesh. None of you, I think, will dare to say that God was not and is not the foreknower of things to come, and the one who prepares beforehand what each deserves. So these things have come upon you also rightly and justly.

因為除了你們肉身上的割禮以外，你們再沒有別的記號使你們與其他人有所分別。我想，你們中間沒有人敢說：神不是、也不曾是那預知將來之事的神，也不是那為各人預備所當得之分的神。所以這些事臨到你們，乃是正當而公義的。

3-16:4

Ἀπεκτείνατε γὰρ τὸν δίκαιον καὶ πρὸ αὐτοῦ τοὺς προφήτας αὐτοῦ· καὶ νῦν τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπ αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν πέμψαντα αὐτὸν παντοκράτορα καὶ ποιητὴν τῶν ὅλων θεὸν ἀθετεῖτε καί, ὅσον ἐφ ὑμῖν. ἀτιμάζετε, καταρώμενοι ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς ὑμῶν τοὺς πιστεύοντας ἐπὶ τὸν Χριστόν. Οὐ γὰρ ἐξουσίαν ἔχετε αὐτόχειρες γενέσθαι ἡμῶν διὰ τοὺς νῦν ἐπικρατοῦντας· ὁσάκις δὲ ἂν ἐδυνήθητε, καὶ τοῦτο ἐπράξατε

For you killed the Righteous One, and before him his prophets; and now you reject those who set their hope on him, and him who sent him—the Almighty God, the Maker of all things—and, as far as it lies in your power, you dishonor him, cursing in your synagogues those who believe in Christ. For you do not have the authority to lay hands on us yourselves, because of those who now hold power; but as often as you have been able, you have done even this.

因為你們殺了那義者，在他以前又殺了他的眾先知；如今你們棄絕那些仰望他的人，並棄絕那差他來的全能的神、萬有的創造者；並且就你們所能的，你們羞辱他，在你們的會堂裏咒詛那些信基督的人。因為由於現今掌權者的緣故，你們無權親手害我們；然而每逢你們能夠的時候，你們連這事也作了。

3-16:5

Διὸ καὶ ἐμβοᾷ ὑμῖν ὁ θεὸς διὰ τοῦ Ἡσαΐου λέγων· Ἴδετε ὡς ὁ δίκαιος ἀπώλετο, καὶ οὐδεὶς κατανοεῖ. Ἀπὸ γὰρ προσώπου τῆς ἀδικίας ἦρται ὁ δίκάιος. Ἔσται ἐν εἰρήνῃ· ἡ ταφὴ αὐτοῦ ᾖρται ἐκ τοῦ μέσου. Ὑμεῖς προσηγάγετε ὥδε, υἱοὶ ἄνομοι, σπέρμα μοιχῶν καὶ τέκνα πόρνης. Ἐν τίνι ἐνετρυφᾶτε καὶ ἐπὶ τίνα ἠνοίξατε τὸ στόμα καὶ ἐπὶ τίνι ἐχαλάσατε τὴν γλῶσσαν

Therefore God also cries out to you through Isaiah, saying: "See how the righteous one has perished, and no one takes it to heart. For the righteous one has been taken away from the presence of injustice. He shall be in peace; his burial has been taken away from the midst. But you, draw near here, you lawless sons, seed of adulterers and children of a harlot. In whom did you take your delight, and against whom did you open your mouth, and against whom did you let loose your tongue?"

因此神也藉著以賽亞向你們呼喊說：「你們看義人怎樣滅亡，無人放在心上。義人被收去脫離了禍患，他要進入平安；他的安葬已從人中除去了。至於你們這些悖逆的兒女、姦淫者的後裔、妓女的子孫哪，你們近前來罷！你們向誰戲笑？向誰張口？向誰伸舌呢？」

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