Feb09 【每日活水】以爱与信实来担负责任

路得记4:1~12

波阿斯娶路得

1 波阿斯到了城门，坐在那里，恰巧波阿斯所说的那至近的亲属经过。波阿斯说：「某人哪，你来坐在这里。」他就来坐下。

2波阿斯又从本城的长老中拣选了十人，对他们说：「请你们坐在这里。」他们就都坐下。

3波阿斯对那至近的亲属说：「从摩押地回来的拿俄米，现在要卖我们族兄以利米勒的那块地；

4我想当赎那块地的是你，其次是我，以外再没有别人了。你可以在这里的人面前和我本国的长老面前说明，你若肯赎就赎，若不肯赎就告诉我。」那人回答说：「我肯赎。」

5波阿斯说：「你从拿俄米手中买这地的时候，也当娶死人的妻摩押女子路得，使死人在产业上存留他的名。」

6那人说：「这样我就不能赎了，恐怕于我的产业有碍。你可以赎我所当赎的，我不能赎了。」

7从前，在以色列中要定夺什么事，或赎回，或交易，这人就脱鞋给那人。以色列人都以此为证据。

8那人对波阿斯说：「你自己买吧！」于是将鞋脱下来了。

9波阿斯对长老和众民说：「你们今日作见证，凡属以利米勒和基连、玛伦的，我都从拿俄米手中置买了；

10又娶了玛伦的妻摩押女子路得为妻，好在死人的产业上存留他的名，免得他的名在本族本乡灭没。你们今日可以作见证。」

11在城门坐着的众民和长老都说：「我们作见证。愿耶/和/华使进你家的这女子，像建立以色列家的拉结、利亚二人一样。又愿你在以法他得亨通，在伯利恒得名声。

12愿耶/和/华从这少年女子赐你后裔，使你的家像她玛从犹大所生法勒斯的家一般。」

Boaz Marries Ruth

1Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

2Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.

3Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek.

4I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.”

“I will redeem it,” he said.

5Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”

6At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”

7(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)

8So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

9Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.

10I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

11Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

12Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”

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内容观察

1.波阿斯向那个可以赎拿俄米产业的至亲提起什么事？(4~5节)

2.那位至亲放弃赎产业的权利时是怎么说的？(6节)

思考与默想

3.那位至亲害怕自己的产业会受亏损的理由为何？

个人感受

4.看到波阿斯不怕亏损，信实承担照顾亲族的责任，我有什么感想？

决心与应用

5.我何时曾无视自己的责任及爱人如己的诫命，自私自利的对待他人？

6.为了怀着爱来担起自己在家庭、 JH 、社会中的责任，我决定要实践什么事情？

免得对我的产业有损（6节)：这位至亲认为，从拿俄米手中接手以利米勒的土地，同时也要娶路得为妻，可能会损害他的利益，因为如果路得从他生了孩子，那以利米勒的土地就会归这孩子所有，而那位至亲除了损失买地的钱，还要照料路得母子，因此他拒绝尽这责任。

灵/修指南

波阿斯来到伯利恒的城门口坐着，当那位可以赎以利米勒产业的至亲经过，波阿斯便请他过来商议，同时也请了那城的十位长老前来作证(1~2节)。波阿斯对那可以赎产业的至亲，说明拿俄米想要卖属于他们亲族以利米勒的那块地，而按照规定，那位至亲有优先买赎的权利。最终，那位至亲考量到路得若从他生了儿子，那将会对他的财产造成亏损，因此他在众长老面前声明自己放弃权利，并借脱鞋给波阿斯的仪式来满足当时代转移权利的程序(3~8节)。因此，波阿斯当众发誓要赎以利米勒家的产业，并娶路得为妻，好让以利米勒家不致在以色列中消失。波阿斯在乎的是拿俄米及路得的生存问题，因此他按照律/法的要求和爱人如己的原则，买下亲族的产业，并娶他们无子嗣的寡妇为妻。愿我们也学习信实地担负责任，不计得失地实践爱的诫命。

内室祷/告

愿我以爱与信实的心，担负起自己在家庭、 JH 、社会中的责任。

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