6 Do not eat the food of a
begrudging host,
do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is the kind of person
who is always thinking about the cost.
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten
and will have wasted your compliments.
do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is the kind of person
who is always thinking about the cost.
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten
and will have wasted your compliments.
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「惡人」有小氣的意思,這等人請人吃飯是有目地的,是希望能透過一頓飯來控制人,來指使人做他要做的事情,所以不會白請人吃飯的。也因此《箴言》坐者提醒我們:「不要吃惡眼人的飯,也不要貪他的美味」。
俗話說:「吃人嘴軟,拿人手短」!也因此,我們不要隨便受邀吃飯,也不要隨便收人得餽贈。更要記得,「沒有白吃的午餐」。對於物品和餐局的收受,更是需要智慧,尤其是教會的傳道人,更是要在此小心。不要讓這些事情還影響教會的治理,這是非常重要的功課。
因此,傳道人不可以因為受到某位弟兄姊妹較多的「照顧」,就不敢責備他或勸誡他,這是有違背做上帝所揀選的牧者的原則,反而為了他們的靈命健康,更需要責備語提醒他們,使他們不要偏離正道!
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