2019年11月19日 星期二

利未記25:8-17


25:8 「你要計算七個安息年,就是七七年。這便為你成了七個安息年,共是四十九年。
25:9
當年七月初十日,你要大發角聲;這日就是贖罪日,要在遍地發出角聲。
25:10
第五十年,你們要當作聖年,在遍地給一切的居民宣告自由。這年必為你們的禧年,各人要歸自己的產業,各歸本家。
25:11
第五十年要作為你們的禧年。這年不可耕種;地中自長的,不可收割;沒有修理的葡萄樹也不可摘取葡萄。
25:12
因為這是禧年,你們要當作聖年,吃地中自出的土產。
25:13
「這禧年,你們各人要歸自己的地業。
25:14
你若賣甚麼給鄰舍,或是從鄰舍的手中買甚麼,彼此不可虧負。
25:15
你要按禧年以後的年數向鄰舍買;他也要按年數的收成賣給你。
25:16
年歲若多,要照數加添價值;年歲若少,要照數減去價值,因為他照收成的數目賣給你。
25:17
你們彼此不可虧負,只要敬畏你們的上帝,因為我是耶和華你們的上帝。」

“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. 12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.
13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.
14 “‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other. 15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. 16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. 17 Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.

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    除了安息年之外,更重要的是禧年,也就是這裡所說的:「你要計算七個安息年,就是七七年。這便為你成了七個安息年,共是四十九年。當年七月初十日,你要大發角聲;這日就是贖罪日,要在遍地發出角聲。第五十年,你們要當作聖年,在遍地給一切的居民宣告自由。這年必為你們的禧年,各人要歸自己的產業,各歸本家。」

    所以,禧年是一個特別的年,也有救贖的意思,就像以賽亞書611-3節說:「主耶和華的靈在我身上;因為耶和華用膏膏我,叫我傳好信息給謙卑的人(或譯:傳福音給貧窮的人),差遣我醫好傷心的人,報告被擄的得釋放,被囚的出監牢;報告耶和華的恩年,和我們上帝報仇的日子;安慰一切悲哀的人,賜華冠與錫安悲哀的人,代替灰塵;喜樂油代替悲哀;讚美衣代替憂傷之靈;使他們稱為『公義樹』,是耶和華所栽的,叫他得榮耀。」

    這裡的「報告耶和華的恩年」,在《路加福音》主耶穌宣讀為「報告上帝悅納人的禧年」,讓我們在一次確定禧年的救贖意義,正如這裡經文所說,重新擁有自己所失去的!上帝的拯救,也是讓我們重新擁有與上帝有正確合宜的關係,因著耶穌基督!

   

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