※Adam’s Descendants
At first glance, the content of chapter 5 of Genesis is rather dull: a long genealogical list of Adam’s descendants. What possible spiritually uplifting message could be found in an inventory of odd sounding names and dates full of “begets”? But according to many Christian readers of Scripture, these names contain a secret message which can only be revealed if you know their meaning in Hebrew. Let’s take a closer look.
乍看，創世記第5章的內容相當沉悶：長篇的亞當後代譜系列表。有什麼能令人振奮的信息可以在一個奇怪的名字和充滿「生養子女」的日期清單中找到？但是根據許多基督徒的聖經讀者的說法，這些名字包含一個秘密信息，只有你知道他們的名字在希伯來文中的意思才能揭示。
讓我們仔細看看。
※A secret message in the Hebrew names
Name...........................Hebrew meaning
Adam亞當.......................Man
Seth塞特.........................Appointed
Enosh以挪士...................Mortal
Kenan該南.......................Sorrow
Mahalalel瑪勒列..............Blessed God
Jared雅列........................Shall Come Down
Enoch以諾.......................Teaching
Methuselah瑪土撒拉.......Death brings
Lamech拉麥....................Despairing
Noah挪亞................ .......Rest
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*If we string together the meaning of these ten names, we get something like this,
將這十位名字的意思，按次序連在一起，可得如下：
“The man is appointed mortal sorrow, but the blessed God shall come down teaching that his death brings rest to those despairing”.
這個人被命定死在悲哀中，但賜福的上帝會下來，教導那些絕望的人，他的死將帶來安息。
What does this mean?
※Hebrew makes sense of it all
For Christian readers, this peculiar sentence is an awe-inspiring revelation of the mystery of the Gospel hidden in the first ten names of the Bible. It is astounding to see evidence that right from the beginning of the Bible, God has already determined that he will send Jesus (“a man of sorrows” Isaiah 53:3) to die as a redemption for the sins of humanity.
對於基督徒，這十個名字連成的特殊句子，是聖經裡隱藏著福音的一種令人敬畏的啟示。
令人驚訝的是，聖經從頭就看到許多證據，啟示上帝為恢復祂的創造，早就定意祂會派耶穌（「一個悲傷的人」以賽亞書53：3）為人類罪孽的救贖而死。
以賽亞書53：3 3 他被藐視，被人厭棄；多受痛苦，常經憂患。他被藐視，好像被人掩面不看的一樣；我們也不尊重他。
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