2011年2月14日

全新樂活讀經默想 110217


Massacre at Shechem



W4  2011-02-17 (創34)


經文: 創世紀 34:14 對他們說:「我們不能把我們的妹子給沒有受割禮的人為妻,因為那是我們的羞辱。

默想: 雅各的孩子使用冠冕堂皇的宗教藉口,來欺騙示劍城的哈抹與他的兒子示劍,以及示劍全城的男子,讓他們同時接受割禮,再趁機將他們殺光。求主幫助我,不要假藉敬虔的外貌,卻做出傷天害理的行為。
 
題目: 在「底拿事件」中,雅各的兒子們的作為為何?雅各的反應為何?你有何看法與省思?

3 意見:

Yi-ting 提到...

When Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, he held peace until his sons came back from the field. The sons of Jacob were indignant and very angry, so they decided to revenge and deceive Shechem and his father Hamor.

But in fact, what they did was no better than Schechem, and they even brought trouble on Jacob by making him odious to the inhabitants of the land. Why Jacob kept silence in the beginning might be because he needed some time to think. Yet he could have prevented his sons from adopting the strategy of “an eye for an eye” but he didn’t. That’s what I was unable to figure out.

Anonymous 提到...

在「底拿事件」中,雅各的兒子們的作為為何?雅各的反應為何?你有何看法與省思?
....假借割禮之名把全城的男丁都殺了.
....雅各覺得如此的作為會因此而臭名.
....這事應交給上帝去處理去定罪
May

卯同學 提到...

雅各的生命雖然被上帝重新塑造,但是他的兒女似乎仍活在撒旦的世界中。

雅各未能依照承諾去到西珥而留在示劍,這使得他的女兒底拿結交了示劍的女子,並且陷入情慾的網羅而被玷辱,雅各的兒子們無法忍受這樣的恥辱,於是藉由聖潔的理由而做出污穢的事情,雅各得知後雖然指責他們但是先想到的是自己會被連累,而不是慚愧自己的言行影響到兒子們的作為。

父母的信仰要能傳承,必須藉由日常生活的見證,而不是靠著威權式的要求;必須提供子女充滿愛的環境,而不是物質的追求。