马太福音 11:28-30 的含义:“我的轭是容易的,我的担子是轻省的”



  • 耶稣邀请所有“劳苦担重担的人”到他那里得安息,负他的轭,学他的样式。在四福音书中,唯有马太福音记载了这段话。
  • 轭是横在耕作牲畜(通常是一对)颈项上的木杠,圣经中常以此作为奴役和上帝律法的象征。
  • 犹太文献中早已提到过“良轭”:写于公元前190年至170年间的《便西拉智训》邀请读者将颈项置于智慧的轭下以得安息;后来的《密西拿》也提到在每日诵读的《示玛》中接受“天国的轭”。
  • 耶稣保留了轭和担子,却称它们是容易的、轻省的;“容易”一词翻译自希腊语 chrēstos,意为温和、愉悦或仁慈,“轻省”则指重量很轻。
  • 基督徒对这种劳苦有不同的解读:《新美国圣经》的注释认为这是指文士和法利赛人所阐释的律法;金口若望认为是指焦虑、忧愁和罪;加尔文则认为是罪的重担。
  • 这段邀请紧随马太福音11:25-27中耶稣的祷告之后,当时他说唯有子认识父,且紧接在两场关于安息日的争论之前;1928年版的《公祷书》将“凡劳苦担重担的人”列为圣餐礼忏悔后所宣读的“安慰之言”之首。

In three verses Jesus calls everyone who is worn out and weighed down to come to him, and he promises them rest. He asks them to take his yoke, the wooden bar that harnessed working animals, and to learn from him, for he is “meek and lowly in heart”. His yoke, he says, is easy, and his burden light. It sounds a strange gift at first. We come to him tired, and he hands us something to carry. But he…

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