5:1 成群的民(原文是女子)哪,現在你要聚集成隊;因為仇敵圍攻我們,要用杖擊打以色列審判者的臉。
5:2 伯利恆的以法他啊,你在猶大諸城中為小,將來必有一位從你那裡出來,在以色列中為我作掌權的;他的根源從亙古,從太初就有。
5:3 耶和華必將以色列人交付敵人,直等那生產的婦人生下子來。那時掌權者(原文是他)其餘的弟兄必歸到以色列人那裡。
5:4 他必起來,倚靠耶和華的大能,並耶和華─他上帝之名的威嚴,牧養他的羊群。他們要安然居住;因為他必日見尊大,直到地極。
5:5 這位必作我們的平安。當亞述人進入我們的地境,踐踏宮殿的時候,我們就立起七個牧者,八個首領攻擊他。
5:6 他們必用刀劍毀壞亞述地和寧錄地的關口。亞述人進入我們的地境踐踏的時候,他必拯救我們。
Now muster your troops, O daughter of
troops;
siege is laid against us;
with a rod they strike the judge of Israel
on the cheek.
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of
Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days.
Therefore he shall give them up until the time
when she who is in labor has given birth;
then the rest of his brothers shall return
to the people of Israel.
And
he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord,
in the majesty of the name of the Lord his
God.
And they shall dwell secure, for now he
shall be great
to the ends of the earth.
And
he shall be their peace.
When the Assyrian comes into our land
and treads in our palaces,
then we will raise against him seven
shepherds
and eight princes of men;
they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod at its entrances;
and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
when he comes into our land
and treads within our border.
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這段經文使我們看見耶穌基督的降生是合乎彌迦先知的預言,真的降生在伯利恆!祂更是為萬民的罪死在十字架上,使我們靠祂得成為上帝的兒女!祂願意以「道成肉身」的方式降臨,使我們得真正的拯救!
這也讓我們想到保羅所引用的頌歌:『他本有上帝的形像,不以自己與上帝同等為強奪的;反倒虛己,取了奴僕的形像,成為人的樣式;既有人的樣子,就自己卑微,存心順服,以至於死,且死在十字架上。所以,上帝將他升為至高,又賜給他那超乎萬名之上的名,叫一切在天上的、地上的,和地底下的,因耶穌的名無不屈膝,無不口稱「耶穌基督為主」,使榮耀歸與父上帝。』(腓立比書2:6-11)
而「道成肉身」更是上帝完成拯救之重要途徑,所以耶穌基督不僅是人,更是完全的上帝!
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