梦见总统:圣经中并无此意

  • 圣经中没有关于总统的梦的记载,也没有赋予其任何含义。在古代世界并没有总统。
  • 圣经解释了两位统治者的梦——法老的和尼布甲尼撒的——在这两个例子中,上帝都是通过一位囚犯向统治者谈论他自己的统治。圣经从未解释过臣民关于统治者的梦。
  • 统治者在上帝之下:“他改变时候、日期,废王,立王”(但以理书 2:21),并且“王的心在耶和华手中,好像陇沟的水”(箴言 21:1)。
  • 我们被告知要无条件地为他们祷告(提摩太前书 2:1-2)——而保罗是在尼禄统治下写下这些话的。
  • 祷告并不等同于支持。拿单为大卫祷告,然后对他说了“你就是那人”。

Scripture records no dream about a president, and gives no meaning to one. There were no presidents in the ancient world, and the Bible offers no rule for reading a modern office into a night image. But it has a great deal to say about rulers — more than most of us are comfortable with, in both directions. Does the Bible interpret dreams about leaders? It interprets two, and both belong to kings rather than to the people dreaming about…

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