以色列的子孙是否独享被拣选的地位?
WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EXCLUSIVELY THE CHOSEN?
《圣经》关于救恩的论述存在明显的矛盾。根据《约翰福音》,耶稣(愿主赐他平安)在与撒玛利亚妇人谈论弥赛亚时说:"救恩是从犹太人来的。"(约翰福音 4:22)
The Bible talks with clear contradiction about salvation. According to John, Jesus (PBUH) told the Samaritan woman in his talk about the messiah: "for salvation is from the Jews." (John: 4/22).
然而,这一问题已被圣经中的其他许多经文所驳斥。这些经文令人怀疑这句话是否真的出自耶稣之口,尤其是清楚地表明它是后来被插入经文之中的。
However, this issue has been refuted by many other biblical texts, which throw suspicion as to whether or not this statement was actually uttered by Jesus, especially, that it is clear it was inserted into the text.
这一点上,有必要提及《圣经》中那些表明先知身份可能从以色列的子孙转移到另一民族(如阿拉伯人)的经文。
It is important to mention, at this point, the Holy Bible's texts that indicate the possibility of transferring the prophet-hood from the Children of Israel to another nation like the Arabs.
真主曾向以色列的子孙派遣许多先知,他们却否认并杀害了这些先知。让我们思考先知们对这个叛逆民族所说的话,看看他们是否配得上保有这份恩典。摩西论及他们说:“因为他们是无谋之邦,其中毫无聪明。”(申命记 32:28)
God had sent many prophets to the Children of Israel, and they denied and killed them. Let us ponder upon what the prophets said about this rebellious nation, to see if they were worthy of keeping the blessing. Moses said about them: "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.” (Deuteronomy: 32/28).
他说:“他们是乖逆弯曲的世代。你们这愚昧无知的百姓,这样报答耶和华吗?”(申命记 32:5-6)。
He said, “They are a crooked and twisted generation. Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people?” (Deuteronomy: 32/5-6).
先知以利亚说:"他说,我为万军之耶和华极其热心,因为以色列人离弃了你的约,拆毁了你的祭坛,用刀杀了你的先知,只剩下我一人,他们还寻索我的性命要夺去。"(列王纪上 19:10)
The prophet Elijah said: "He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away." (1Kings: 19/10).
上主在以西结先知书中对他们的描述也是如此:
God's description of them in the prophet Ezekiel's Book is the same:
他对我说:"人子啊,我差遣你到以色列人那里去,到那些背叛我、悖逆我的国民那里去。
"And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me.
他们和他们的父辈直到今天仍在对我犯下过错。他们的后代也同样放肆而顽固:
They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. The descendants also are impudent and stubborn:
我差你到他们那里去,你要对他们说:“主耶和华如此说。”他们或听或不听(因为他们是悖逆的家),总要知道在他们中间曾有一位先知。人子啊,你不要怕他们,也不要怕他们的言语。虽有荆棘和刺和你同住,你又住在蝎子中间,他们的言语你不要怕,他们的脸色你也不要惧怕,因为他们是悖逆的家。你要将我的话告诉他们,或听或不听,因为他们是悖逆的家。(以西结书 2:3-8)
I send you to them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them. And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house. (Ezekiel: 2/3-8)
同样,先知以赛亚说:“诸天哪,你们要听!地啊,你要留心听!因为耶和华已经说话:‘我养育了儿女,抚养他们长大,他们却背叛了我。”
Similarly, the Prophet Isaiah said, " Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, “children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
牛认识它的主人,驴认识主人的槽,但以色列不认识,我的百姓不明白。
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey his master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
唉,罪恶的国度,担负罪孽的民族,作恶者的后裔,行事邪恶的儿女!他们离弃了耶和华,藐视以色列的圣者,彻底疏远了祂。你们为何还要再受击打呢?
Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly, they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down?
“你们为何还要悖逆不停呢?全头都病了,全心都发昏。从脚掌到头顶,没有一处完好,只有伤痕、淤青和新伤,没有人为它挤压,没有人为它包扎,也没有人用油加以抚慰。”(以赛亚书 1:1-6)
Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil." (Isaiah: 1/1-6).
上帝对他们的愤怒持续不断,直到他收回了对他们的祝福,并以诅咒和报复取而代之。"祭司们哪,现在这条命令是给你们的。你们若不听从,若不将它放在心上,将荣耀归于我的名,万军之耶和华说,我就必降诅咒在你们身上,并咒诅你们所得的福份。我已经咒诅那福份了,因为你们没有将这事放在心上。看哪,我必斥责你们的后裔,把粪抛在你们脸上,就是你们节日的牲畜的粪,你们也必被人拉去,同这粪一起扔掉。"(玛拉基书 2:1-3)
God's anger with them continued, until he lifted the blessing from them, and exchanged it with his curses and revenge "And now, O priests, this command is for you. If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offspring, and you shall be taken away with it." (Malachi: 2/1-3).
当耶稣(愿主赐他平安)来临时,他呼喊耶路撒冷说:"耶路撒冷,耶路撒冷,你这杀害众先知的城啊!"(马太福音 23:37)
When Jesus (PBUH) came he called Jerusalem: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets” (Matthew: 23/37)
因为他们在其土地上杀害了许多神的尊贵先知。
because of the number of God's honorable prophets whom they had killed on its soil.
耶稣(愿主喜悦他)对众人说:"但你们这些文士和法利赛人有祸了!伪君子!……你们这瞎眼的领路人有祸了,……你们这些瞎眼的愚昧人啊……你们这些毒蛇,这些毒蛇的种类啊,你们怎能逃脱地狱的刑罚呢?
Jesus (PBUH) said, while addressing the crowds:- "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! Hypocrites!..... Woe to you, ye blind guides, …. You blind fools ….. you serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
因此,我差遣先知、智者和文士到你们那里去,其中有的你们要杀害、钉十字架,有的你们要在会堂里鞭打,……耶路撒冷,耶路撒冷啊,你这杀害先知、用石头打死奉差遣到你这里来之人的城!"(马太福音 23:13-37)
Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues, ……..O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to you," (Matthew: 23/13-37).
因此,上帝剥夺了他们作为下一位应许先知所出之民族的资格,因为他们违背了上帝的应许与盟约。下一位先知不会出自大卫(愿他平安)的后裔,也就是说,他不会是耶稣(愿他平安)。
For that, God deprived them from being the nation who the next promised prophet will come from, because they broke the promise and covenant of God. The next prophet will not be from the offspring of David (PBUH), meaning that he will not be Jesus (PBUH).
犹太人憎恨耶稣的主要原因,是他以真理当面揭示他们。他告诉他们,神的国和祂的拣选将从他们手中夺去,交给另一个民族。要证明这一点,我们必须回到他们第一次企图杀害他的时候。那时他对他们讲到先知以利亚离开以色列的寡妇,去了西顿的一个寡妇那里;又讲到先知以利沙医治了亚兰人乃缦,却没有医治以色列人中的许多麻风病人。(参见《路加福音》4:25-27)
The main reason that the Jews hated Jesus (PBUH) was that he confronted them with the truth. He told them that God's kingdom and His choice will be taken away from them, and given to another nation. In order to prove that, we have to go back to the first time they tried to kill him. That is when he told them about the prophet Elijah, leaving the children of Israel's widows for a Sidon widow, and that the prophet Joshua cleansed Neman the Assyrian without cleansing the rest of the leprous that were among the children of Israel. (See Luke: 4/25-27)
结果,“众人在会堂里听见这话,都怒气满胸。于是起来,把他赶出城外,带到他们城造在山上的山崖边,要把他推下去。”(路加福音 4:28-29),这便是犹太人与耶稣之间仇恨的开端。
The result was that “When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff." (Luke: 4/28-29), and that was the beginning of the hate between the Jews and Jesus (PBUH).
现在我请尊敬的读者思考:那些曾被先知所警告的民族,是否配得上让祝福与先知身份继续留在它们之中?如果答案是否定的,那么哪一个民族才是被选中、被拣选的民族?除了那个被多次应许获得祝福、出自以实玛利(PBUH)后裔的民族,还能是谁呢?没有任何其他民族宣称自己就是这个被选中的民族。
Now I ask the respected reader, did the nation that was threatened by prophets deserve that the blessing and prophet-hood remain with it? If the answer is no then which nation is the selected and chosen one? Who else could be, except the nation that was promised the blessing many times, from the offspring of Ishmael (PBUH)? None of the nations claimed to be this chosen nation.
新王国民族的描述
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW KINGDOM’S NATION
当以色列的子孙篡改和改变了经典之后,真主便从他们那里收回了先知的使命和天启,将其交给了另一个民族。先知们曾警告以色列子孙的事情发生了,那就是将恩惠转移给另一个民族。
When the children of Israel had altered and changed, God took away the prophet-hood and the message from them and gave it to another nation. What the prophets warned the children of Israel had happened, and that is transferring the goodness to another nation.
这个新的民族是谁,他们有哪些特征?
Who is the new nation, and what are their descriptions?
为回答这个重要的问题,我们将思考《圣经》的经文。
To answer this important question we will ponder on the scriptures of the Holy Bible.
以赛亚援引启示说:"那些不寻求我的人,我让他们找到我;那些不询问我的人,我让他们遇见我。我对那不称呼我名的国家说:'我在这里,我在这里。'我整天向悖逆的百姓伸出我的手,他们行走在不善的道路上,随从自己的计划;这是一个不断当面惹我发怒的百姓;……"(以赛亚书 65:1-3)
Isaiah said, quoting the revelation, "I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “her am I, here am I,” to a nation that was not called by my name.. I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that was not good, following their own devices; A people who provoke me to my face continually; …." (Isaiah: 65/1-3).
文中提到,先知的使命与天命从那个残暴、悖逆的民族转移到了一个此前从未向真主祈求、也不拥有真主之名的民族身上。那便是文盲的民族,从未有任何经典降示给他们。
The text mentioned transferring the prophet-hood and the command from the cruel disobedient nation to a nation that had not asked God before, and did not possess the name of God. It is the illiterate nation, to whom no book was ever revealed.
以西结证实了王权和律法从以色列人手中被夺去,并将其交给了一个卑微而被忽视的民族。他说:"田野的一切树木都必知道我耶和华使高树降为卑,使低树升为高,使青翠的树枯干,使枯干的树发芽。我耶和华已说的,必要成就。"(以西结书 17:24)
Ezekiel confirms the withdrawal of kingdom and statute from the children of Israel, giving it to a low and neglected nation. saying:- "And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD; I bring the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it." (Ezekiel: 17/24).
约翰施洗者在警告以色列的子孙,告诫他们上帝将降下的愤怒时说:"斧头已经放在树根上了。凡不结好果子的树,都要被砍下来,丢在火里。我用水为你们施洗,使你们悔改;但那在我以后来的,比我更有能力,我不配给他提鞋。他要用圣灵和火为你们施洗。"(马太福音 3:10-11),(参看路加福音 13:6-9 中关于不结果子的无花果树的比喻)。
John the Baptist said, as he was warning the children of Israel of the following anger that God will instigate upon them: “even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy spirit, and with fire:" (Matthew: 3/10-11), (check the example about the fig tree that is not fruitful in Luke: 13/6-9).
《圣经》词典(370)
The Holy Bible's dictionary (370)
由布哈里在其《萨希赫》中转述(4)。
Narrated by: Al Bukharai in his saheeh (4).