Jazmine(茉莉)并不在圣经中——它是一种波斯花卉



  • Jazmine 这个名字并未出现在圣经中。它是一个源自波斯语的花名 yasamin, ,经由阿拉伯语和法语演变而来;Jasmine、Yasmin 和 Yasmine 都是同一个名字。
  • Jasmine 并不在圣经提到的植物之列,圣经中提到的植物多为东地中海地区的品种——如无花果、橄榄、葡萄、杏仁和枣椰树。
  • 以赛亚书对花卉的描述非常直白:世人皆如草,花必凋谢,“惟有我们神的话,必永远立定”(以赛亚书 40:6-8)。
  • 耶稣并没有反驳这一点。他指着同样转瞬即逝的花朵说,即使是所罗门王,他最荣耀的时候所穿戴的,还不如这些花一朵呢(马太福音 6:28-29)。
  • 其论点不在于我们能长存,而在于上帝对那些无法长存的事物倾注了极大的关怀——而这正是我们大多数人所做的大部分事情。

Jazmine is not in the Bible. It is a flower name — from the Persian yasamin, through Arabic and then French, arriving in English as jasmine. Flowers do not fare especially well in Scripture, which is honest about what they are. And then our Lord uses one to say something that has kept people going for two thousand years. What does the name Jazmine mean? The jasmine flower. Jazmine, Jasmine, Yasmin and Yasmine are the same name, and the Persian…

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