翡翠不在圣经中——这些宝石的真正含义是什么



  • 圣经中没有提到翡翠。它没有出现在任何主要的译本、宝石列表、祭司的服装或新耶路撒冷的城墙中。
  • 学者们确实不确定希伯来语中几个宝石词汇的含义;古代名称更多地描述了颜色和硬度,而非矿物成分,译者们对此争论了几个世纪。
  • 大祭司的胸牌上镶嵌着十二块宝石,刻着各支派的名字,每当他进入圣所时,都要佩戴在“胸前”(出埃及记 28:29)。
  • 意义从来不在于矿物本身。而在于一个人带着所有人的名字进入上帝的面前。
  • 以赛亚书 49:16 反转了这一点:“我将你铭刻在我的掌心上。”圣经从未教导说石头本身具有力量。

Jade is not in the Bible. It appears in no major translation, in no stone list, on no priestly garment and in no wall of the new Jerusalem. If we have come looking for what jade means in Scripture, the honest answer is that Scripture never mentions it. What Scripture does have is a pouch of twelve stones worn over a man’s heart — and the reason they were there has nothing to do with the minerals. Is jade mentioned…

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