拉比约哈难 说:悔改真大,它连妥拉的禁令也压过。怎样呢?经上神说:「人若休妻,妻离他去,作了别人的妻,前夫岂能再收回她来?若收回她来,那地岂不大大玷污了吗?但你和许多亲爱的行邪淫,还可以归向我,这是耶和华说的」(耶利米书 3:1)。妥拉确说「打发她去的前夫,不可在妇人玷污之后再娶她为妻」(申命记 24:4);以色列与圣者之间的关系比作夫妻,淫乱的妻既不可回到丈夫那里,以色列本也不可从罪中回到神那里,悔改却压过这禁令。
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拉比约哈难 说:悔改是大的,因为它连妥拉的一条禁令也压过。
§ Rabbi Yoḥanan said: Great is repentance, as it overrides even a prohibition of the Torah.
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怎样呢?
How so?
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正如经上说神说:「……人若休妻,妻离他去,作了别人的妻,前夫岂能再收回她来?
As it is stated that God said: “…Saying: If a man sends away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, may he return to her again?
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若收回她来,那地岂不大大玷污了吗?
Will not that land be greatly polluted?
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但你和许多亲爱的行邪淫,还可以归向我,这是耶和华说的」(耶利米书 3:1)。
But you have committed adultery with many lovers; and would you yet return to Me, said the Lord” (Jeremiah 3:1).
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的确,妥拉说:「打发她去的前夫,不可在妇人玷污之后再娶她为妻」(申命记 24:4)。
Indeed, the Torah states: “Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she has been made impure” (Deuteronomy 24:4).
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以色列民与圣者——愿祂受颂赞——之间的关系,被比作夫妻之间的关系。
The relationship between the Jewish people and the Holy One, Blessed be He, is compared to that between a husband and wife.
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正如淫乱的妻子回到她丈夫那里是禁止的,以色列民从他们的罪中回到神那里本也当是禁止的,悔改却压过这一禁令。
Just as it is prohibited for an adulterous wife to return to her husband, it should be prohibited for the Jewish people to return to God from their sins, yet repentance overrides this prohibition.