圣经中多次出现“四十”这个数字
- 大洪水持续了四十昼夜 – “挪亚方舟” 《创世记》7:4 因为再过七天,我要降雨在地上四十昼夜,把我所造的各种活物,都从地上除灭。For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.《创世记》7:12 四十昼夜降大雨在地上。And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- 摩西两个四十昼夜
- 摩西第一次上西奈山顶,与上帝独处,领受了刻有十诫的石版,以及关于建造会幕和颁布律法的详细教导。《出埃及记》24:182 摩西进入云中上山,在山上四十昼夜。And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
- 摩西第一次下山时,看到百姓拜金牛犊,一怒之下摔碎了石版。随后,摩西再次上山,并按上帝的吩咐重凿了石版,上帝重新将十诫刻在上面。《出埃及记》34:28 摩西在耶和华那里四十昼夜,也不吃饭也不喝水。耶和华将这约的话,就是十条诫,写在两块版上。And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- 以色列人的四十天和四十年
- 以色列人即将进入上帝应许的迦南美地时,摩西派了十二个探子去侦察了四十天(民数记 13:25)。 十个探子带回了负面报告,声称无法战胜当地的巨人,并散布了恐慌,导致以色列百姓集体抱怨和不信。上帝宣布,由于他们不信,他们必须在旷野漂流,每年抵偿探子侦察的一天,直到整整四十年。《民数记》14:34: “按你们窥探那地四十日的数目,你们要担当你们的罪孽四十年,就是一年顶一日,你们就知道我与你们疏远了。”
- 耶稣的两个四十天
- 旷野禁食四十天 – 这是指耶稣在开始传道事工之前,被圣灵引到旷野,禁食并受到魔鬼试探的四十昼夜(《马太福音4:1-11》、《马可福音1:12-13》、《路加福音4:1-13》)。
- 耶稣复活显现四十天 – 这是指耶稣被钉十字架后复活,直到升天之间的四十天《使徒行传1:3》他受害之后,用许多的凭据,将自己活活的显给使徒看,四十天之久向他们显现,讲说神国的事。To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
- 摩西律法规定,对犯错者施行的鞭打,最多不能超过四十下《申命记》25:3 只可打他四十下,不可过数。若过数,便是轻贱你的弟兄了。Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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