圣经中的熊:神将自己比作熊



  • 在圣经中,熊很少被用作邪恶的象征。在它四次重要的出现中,有三次都使用了同一个意象:失去幼崽的母熊。
  • 《箴言》17:12 将其作为危险的衡量标准;《撒母耳记下》17:8 用它来形容大卫及其部下;《何西阿书》13:8 则将其置于上帝的口中。
  • “我必向他们施行攻击,像丢崽子的母熊”——上帝用来形容自己愤怒的意象,不是暴君或法官,而是一位失去了孩子的母亲。
  • 关于《列王纪下》2:23-24:希伯来语并不一定指小孩子,四十二人构成了一群暴徒,而伯特利是金牛犊崇拜的中心。上下文解释了这一场景,尽管它并不令人感到舒适。
  • 《以赛亚书》11:7 并没有除去熊:“牛必与熊同食,牛犊必与小熊同卧。”每一种危险的事物依然保持其本性,但不再令人恐惧。

The bear in Scripture is almost never a symbol of evil. It is, more often than not, a picture of God — and specifically of the one thing that makes him angriest. Let us look, because this is not what most of us were told. What does the bear symbolise in the Bible? Ferocity on behalf of what has been taken. The Syrian brown bear was real and dangerous in the hills of Israel, and Scripture reaches for it whenever…

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