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每日讀經 – 6/29 (一) 耶利米書 4:1-4

6/29 (一)

耶利米書 4:1-4

1 上主這樣說:「以色列人哪,如果你們要回頭,就回到我這裡來吧!如果你們除去我憎恨的偶像,不再搖擺不定,
2 你們就可以用至誠、正直、公平的態度指著我的名發誓。這樣,萬國都會向我求福,都會頌讚我。」
3 上主這樣告訴猶大人和耶路撒冷人:「你們要開墾沒有耕犁過的土地,不要在荊棘中撒種。
4 猶大和耶路撒冷人哪,你們要在心靈上受割禮,把自己獻給我—你們的上主。不然,你們的惡行會激怒我,使我怒火中燒,沒有人能夠撲滅。」

ESV
1 “If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver,
2 and if you swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.”

《聖經背景注釋》
心受割禮的比喻 如埃及出土的圖像證據所顯示,割禮並不是以色列所獨有的。獨有的是其背後的意義:這是以色列人屬於耶和華的記號。正常的割禮象征性地將生殖的器官放在耶和華的控制下,作為立約應許──祂要使以色列成為大國──的提醒。心受割禮在概念上是將掌管意志的器官,象征式地放在耶和華的控制下,承認對律法負責任。