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旧约 - 何西阿书(Hosea)第2章

"Say of your brothers, 'My people,' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.'
"Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.
Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.'
Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'
She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold--which they used for Baal.
"Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her nakedness.
So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.
I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days--all her appointed feasts.
I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.
I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot," declares the LORD.
"Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.
There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
"In that day," declares the LORD, "you will call me 'my husband'; you will no longer call me 'my master.'
I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.
In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.
I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.
I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.
"In that day I will respond," declares the LORD--"I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;
and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.
I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one.' I will say to those called 'Not my people,' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'"
何西阿书第二章   第 2 章 

  何 2 章 > 被管教的儿女再次投入父亲的怀抱,以色列如是,我们…… 

  2 章 以色列所受的惩罚和复兴是本章的主题。正如在法庭上奸淫者要受审判被定罪一样,以色列也要受惩罚。但惩罚过后,她要欢喜、轻柔地投回神的怀抱。 

  灵性上与肉体上的不忠 

  何 2:5-7> 以色列人走迷时,神带领他,犯罪时,神阻止他。但神只对以色列人如此作吗? 

  2:5-7 以色列人崇拜假神,特别崇拜他们相信能控制气候、掌管农业的巴力,而不敬拜供应他们衣、食、住的真神。所以神用荆棘堵塞以色列的道,筑墙挡住他们的路,让崇拜偶像的结果令他们大大失望,藉此使他们归向真神。不管以色列如何叛逆,神仍然信实且满有怜悯。耶和华继续向祂的子民展开双臂,甚至在他们恣意妄为的路上阻止他们,使他们回转归向祂。 

  何 2:7> 在不得意时才回到从前所弃的怀抱!我对神也是如此?我…… 

  2:7 正如歌篾可能在认为跟着何西阿会比较幸福时重回丈夫怀抱一样,人也常在无法承受人生的挣扎时归向神。因失意沮丧而归向神总比与神对抗好,但因出于感谢的心而归向神就更好了。 

  何 2:8> 歌篾以金钱供奉巴力;今天我们也毫不逊色,有没有察验什么是自己的“巴力”? 

  2:8 在绝大多数社会中,财富丰厚是成功的象征。当时的以色列是一个富裕的国家,歌篾也许已积蓄了不少金银。然而,歌篾并没意识到所有的财富都是何西阿给她的,就好像以色列人不知道神是赐恩惠者一样。歌篾和以色列都在追求情人和假神时,任意挥霍他们所拥有的财富。你怎样运用你的钱财?是用神赐给我们的财产来荣耀祂吗? 

  何 2:12> 环顾我所拥有的,大概都是我所努力争取得来的。你说我忘了那个很重要的? 

  2:12 以色列人沉迷于崇拜偶像之中,以致他们相信自己的葡萄园和果园(“她的葡萄树和无花果树”)都是来自异教之神的。他们忘记了以色列全地都是神所赐的(参申 32:49 )。今天,许多人把自己的成就归功于神以外的人和事──幸运、勤奋、聪慧、交际广泛;当你成功时,你归功于谁? 

  何 2:13> 既有耶和华,为何还要供奉巴力?既有耶和华,人为什么还总不满足? 

  2:13 巴力是迦南诸神中最主要的一个,人们用他的名字来代表所有在以色列领土上的假神。以色列人没有按照神的命令废除偶像和异教的崇拜,反而容忍、甚至参与对巴力的崇拜。百姓敬拜巴力,往往是受了昏君的影响,以色列王亚哈就是其中的带领者。先知以利亚曾与亚哈所雇的先知一决雌雄,证明神的力量远超过巴力(参王上 18 章)。 

  何 2:14-15> 困境背后,仍见彩虹,只因为有神的应许!以色列人应当体会得到,你的生命又如何? 

  2:14-15 神应许:( 1 )将以色列民领到旷野,使他们不致分心,以便与他们沟通。( 2 )将困苦的时光变为希望的时刻。亚割谷(意为 " 麻烦 " )是亚干违反神的吩咐,藏起战利品而犯罪的地方(参书 7 章),因亚干的罪,约书亚的军队在攻打艾城时惨败。神甚至利用惨痛教训来制造机会使人归向祂。当你面对困难和考验时,要记住不论在顺境或逆境,神都对你说话。 

  何 2:16> 与神的关系可以亲密如夫妻一样?我看今天我和神嘛…… 

  2:16 直到犹大人被掳,整个民族才开始醒悟,并放弃偶像归向神;直到神通过弥赛亚耶稣来统治世界,神和祂的百姓之间的关系才会恢复。那时,神不再像人的主人,而像个丈夫(参赛 54:4-8 ),神人关系会更深厚、更亲密。虽然我们对这种关系所知有限,却可透过婚姻关系来体会。 

  何 2:19-20> 今天婚姻遭人冷漠,但神所期盼的神人关系却是那样神圣…… 

  2:19-20 总有一天,人不可能再对神不忠,因为神要以祂那完美的公义、公平、慈爱、怜悯和信实来坚固我们与祂的关系。在何西阿的时代,婚约不只是一纸简单的婚书,而且是一个有约束力的合约,是双方为了未来永久的关系而作出的重大承诺。这里,神应许的是神人关系的一个崭新开始,而不是在陈旧契约里作出的一个临时修改(参耶 31:31-34 )。 

  何 2:19-20> 神以怜悯聘我们,我们怎能配得?…… 

  2:19-20 神赐给他的子民的结婚礼物,在何西阿时代是丰盛的怜悯,在今日亦然。神原谅我们,使我们在祂面前称义,并不是因为我们的优点和功劳,因靠我们的努力根本无法达到神对于道德和属灵生命的最高标准。神仁慈地接纳我们,宽恕我们,把我们引到祂的身边,使我们可以和祂有个人的、亲密的交通。──《灵修版圣经注释》