Oct 29【每日活水】用 SHEN 的眼光看待他人

 

出埃及记21:1~11

对待奴仆的条例
申15‧12-18
1「你在百姓面前所要立的典章是这样: 
2你若买希伯来人作奴仆,他必服事你六年;第七年他可以自由,白白地出去。 
3他若孤身来就可以孤身去;他若有妻,他的妻就可以同他出去。 
4他主人若给他妻子,妻子给他生了儿子或女儿,妻子和儿女要归主人,他要独自出去。 
5倘或奴仆明说:『我爱我的主人和我的妻子儿女,不愿意自由出去。』 
6他的主人就要带他到审判官那里,又要带他到门前,靠近门框,用锥子穿他的耳朵,他就永远服事主人。
7「人若卖女儿作婢女,婢女不可像男仆那样出去。 
8主人选定她归自己,若不喜欢她,就要许她赎身;主人既然用诡诈待她,就没有权柄卖给外邦人。 
9主人若选定她给自己的儿子,就当待她如同女儿。 
10若另娶一个,那女子的吃食、衣服,并好合的事,仍不可减少。 
11若不向她行这三样,她就可以不用钱赎,白白地出去。」
1“These are the laws you are to set before them:
Hebrew Servants
2“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 
3If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 
4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
5“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
6then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
7“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 
8If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 
9If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. 
10If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 
11If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
 

内容观察

1.希伯来人作奴仆,服事主人几年后可以自由?(2节)

2.希伯来奴仆若是不愿离去,而愿与主人和他自己的家人同在,应当如何? (5~6 节)

 

思考与默想

 

3. SHEN 为什么如此详细说明奴婢的条例?
 

个人感受

4.看到 SHEN 看顾作为弱者的奴婢,保护他们作为人的尊严,给他们选择的权利,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我在哪些方面因为爱 SHEN 而甘愿成为 SHEN 的仆人?

6.为了用 SHEN 的心肠和眼光看待周遭的人,我决定要怎么做?

赎身(8节):指支付身价将其释放或买下。

灵/修指南

SHEN 在颁布十诚和祭坛的条例之后,又立下有关民事和刑事的条例和典章。其中,第一条是关于“希伯来奴婢”的条例。在希伯来人中,有人因为贫穷或是欠债,而将自己的妻子、儿女卖为奴婢, SHEN 也为解决这项问题立下规范。不同于古代近东的其他法典, SHEN 所立下的典章明示了为奴的期限:奴仆服事主人六年之后,第七年可以自由离去(1~2节)。这样的法则蕴含了 SHEN 的性情和 TA 重视的价值:不将人视为财物,而是拥有尊严的存在。奴仆若是自愿与主人和他自己的家人同在,就可以来到审判官前,用锥子穿耳,永远服事主人,这些规定都赋予了奴仆自主决定的权利(5—6节)。 SHEN 设立这些条例的终极目标,是让为奴的得以自由。我们要省察自己,是否将 SHEN 视为尊贵的他人,当成实现利益的工具。作为 SHEN 的百姓。我们应当用 SHEN 的眼光看待他人,并服事他人。
 

内室dao告

愿我放下贪心和属世的标准,用 SHEN 的眼光看待他人,并服事他人。 

 

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