——那蛇临到夏娃、就是引诱她吃知识树上果子的时候,把德行的污秽传给了她,那污秽就留在众人身上。以色列民站在西奈山下的时候,他们的污秽止住了;外邦人没有站在西奈山下,他们的污秽就未曾止住。拉瓦之子拉夫阿哈 对 拉夫阿施 说:那么归化的人怎么说呢?他们德行的污秽怎样止住的呢?拉夫阿施 对他说:他们本身虽不在西奈山下,他们的守护天使却在那里,正如经上写着:「我不但与你们立这约,起这誓,凡与我们一同站在耶和华我们神面前的,并今日不在这里的人,我也与他立这约、起这誓」(申命记 29:13–14);归化的人也包在里头。
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——那蛇临到夏娃、就是引诱她吃知识树上果子的时候,把德行的污秽传给了她,那污秽就留在众人身上。
the snake came upon Eve, i.e., when it seduced her to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, it infected her with moral contamination, and this contamination remained in all human beings.
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以色列民站在西奈山下的时候,他们的污秽止住了;外邦人没有站在西奈山下,他们的污秽就未曾止住。
When the Jewish people stood at Mount Sinai, their contamination ceased, whereas gentiles did not stand at Mount Sinai, and their contamination never ceased.
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拉瓦之子拉夫阿哈 对 拉夫阿施 说:那么归化的人怎么说呢?
Rav Aḥa, the son of Rava, said to Rav Ashi: What about converts?
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他们德行的污秽是怎样止住的呢?
How do you explain the cessation of their moral contamination?
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拉夫阿施 对他说:他们本身虽不在西奈山下,他们的守护天使却在那里,正如经上写着:「我不但与你们立这约、起这誓,凡与我们一同站在耶和华我们神面前的,并今日不在这里的人,我也与他立这约、起这誓」(申命记 29:13–14);归化的人也包在里头。
Rav Ashi said to him: Even though they themselves were not at Mount Sinai, their guardian angels were present, as it is written: “It is not with you alone that I make this covenant and this oath, but with he that stands here with us today before the Lord our God, and with he that is not here with us today” (Deuteronomy 29:13–14), and this includes converts.