(续上)……一种叫巴尔约哈尼的鸟的脸,那比一掌大得多?革玛拉驳:抓得多,就什么也没抓住;抓得少,才抓住了些。又问:那就说像一只小鸟的脸,极小?拉夫阿哈·巴尔·雅各 说:拉夫胡纳 推施恩座厚一掌,不是真拿各种活物的脸相比,而是借妥拉不同处「面」与「面」的字面类推:这里写「施恩座前」(利未记 16:2),那里写「从他父亲以撒面前」(创世记 27:30)——施恩座的尺寸如同人的脸,一掌。
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……一种叫巴尔约哈尼的鸟的脸吗?那鸟的脸比一掌大得多。
of a bird called bar Yokhani, whose face is significantly larger than a handbreadth?
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革玛拉驳这一说:你若抓得多,就什么也没有抓住;你若抓得少,就抓住了些。
The Gemara rejects this suggestion: If you grasped many, you did not grasp anything; if you grasped few, you grasped something.
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革玛拉问:若是这样,就说它像一只鸟的脸吧,那是极小的?
The Gemara asks: If so, say that it is like the face of a bird, which is extremely small?
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拉夫阿哈·巴尔·雅各 说:拉夫胡纳 推出施恩座的厚度是一掌,不是凭着与各种活物真实的脸相比,而是借着妥拉不同处所写的「面」与「面」这两个词的字面类推。
Rav Aḥa bar Ya’akov said: Rav Huna derives that the thickness of the Ark cover was one handbreadth not through an actual comparison to the real faces of different creatures but rather by means of a verbal analogy between the terms penei and penei written in different places in the Torah.
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这里写着:「施恩座前」(利未记 16:2),那里写着:「从他父亲以撒面前」(创世记 27:30)。
It is written here: “Before [penei] the Ark cover” (Leviticus 16:2), and it is written there: “From the presence of [penei] Isaac his father” (Genesis 27:30).
两处「前」「面前」原文同作 penei(פְּנֵי,「脸」的附属形);字面类推全在这一字,中文不写罗马字。
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施恩座的尺寸,就如同一个人的脸,是一掌。
The dimension of the Ark cover is like that of the face of a person, a handbreadth.