鸽子在圣经中代表什么?圣灵鸽与基督徒的鸽子



  • 在圣经中,鸽子首先代表圣灵,圣灵在耶稣受洗时“仿佛鸽子”降临在他身上(马太福音 3:16;马可福音 1:10;路加福音 3:22;约翰福音 1:32)。
  • Noah’s dove brought back “an olive leaf pluckt off”, the sign that the flood was over, and so the dove became a sign of peace and a new start (Genesis 8:11).
  • 福音书并未说明圣灵为何以鸽子的形象显现;特土良将其视为“纯洁与无辜的象征(标志)”,而奥古斯丁则将其视为呼吁基督徒之间和平的象征。
  • 斑鸠或雏鸽是律法允许穷人献上的祭物,玛利亚和约瑟为耶稣献上了“一对斑鸠或两只雏鸽”(路加福音 2:24)。
  • 耶稣告诉他的使徒要“灵巧像蛇,驯良像鸽子”(马太福音 10:16)。
  • 基督教艺术在早期墓葬中使用鸽子来象征死者的安宁,在基督受洗的场景中象征圣灵,并将其作为圣餐的容器,例如大都会艺术博物馆中约 1215–35 年的利摩日鸽子。
  • The peace dove we know today comes from the lithograph Picasso made for the 1949 peace congress in Paris, and it drew on Noah’s dove.

The dove represents above all the Holy Spirit, who came down on Jesus “like a dove” at his baptism. In the Bible it also stands for peace and a new start, because a dove brought Noah an olive leaf. Scripture also uses it for innocence, love, mourning and homecoming, and Christian art kept it as the Spirit’s sign. The two great doves of Scripture are both looking for a place to land. Noah’s dove went out over the flood and…

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