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Revelation 1 1 When he broke open the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven 2 for about half an hour. 当羔羊开启了第七个印的时候，天上静默了约半小时。 2 And I saw that the seven angels who stood before God were given seven trumpets. 然后，我看见那站在天主面前的七位天使；给了他们七个号角。 3 Another angel came and stood at the altar, 3 holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne. 又来了另一位天使，持着金香炉，站在祭坛旁；给了他许多乳香，为同众圣徒的祈祷，一起献在宝座前的金坛上。 4 The smoke of the incense along with the prayers of the holy ones went up before God from the hand of the angel. 乳香的烟与圣徒的祈祷，遂由那位天使的手中，升到天主面前。 5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with burning coals from the altar, and hurled it down to the earth. There were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. 此后，那位天使提起香炉，盛满了祭坛上的火，抛到地上，遂发生了雷霆、响声、闪电和地动。 6 The seven angels who were holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them. 以后，那七位持着七个号角的天使，就准备着吹号角。 7 When the first one blew his trumpet, there came hail and fire mixed with blood, which was hurled down to the earth. A third of the land was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all green grass. 4 第一位一吹号角，就有搀着血的冰雹和火抛到地上；于是大地被烧毁了三分之一，树木也被烧毁了三分之一，青草全被烧尽。 8 5 When the second angel blew his trumpet, something like a large burning mountain was hurled into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood, 第二位天使一吹号角，就好像有一座燃着火的大山，投入海中；于是海的三分之一便成了血， 9 a third of the creatures living in the sea 6 died, and a third of the ships were wrecked. 海里一切有生命之物也死了三分之一，船只也毁坏了三分之一。 10 When the third angel blew his trumpet, a large star burning like a torch fell from the sky. It fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 第三位天使一吹号角，就有一颗大星，炽燃有如火把，从天上落下来，落在河的三分之一和水泉上。 11 The star was called ＂Wormwood,＂ 7 and a third of all the water turned to wormwood. Many people died from this water, because it was made bitter. 这星的名字叫＂苦艾；＂於是水的三分之一变成苦的，许多人因水变苦了而死去。 12 When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them became dark. The day lost its light for a third of the time, as did the night. 第四位天使一吹号角，太阳的三分之一，月亮的三分之一和星辰的三分之一，都受了打击，以致它们的三分之一黑暗了，白日三分之一失了光，黑夜也是一样。 13 Then I looked again and heard an eagle flying high overhead cry out in a loud voice, ＂Woe! Woe! Woe 8 to the inhabitants of the earth from the rest of the trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to blow!＂ 以后，我看见，也听见在天空中飞翔的一只鹰大声说：＂还有另三位吹号角的天使，当他们发出号声时，祸哉！祸哉！祸哉，地上的居民！＂ Footnotes(注解) 1 [1-13] The breaking of the seventh seal produces at first silence and then seven symbolic disasters, each announced by a trumpet blast, of which the first four form a unit as did the first four seals. A minor liturgy (Rev 8:3-5) is enclosed by a vision of seven angels (Rev 8:2, 6). Then follow the first four trumpet blasts, each heralding catastrophes modeled on the plagues of 2 [1] Silence in heaven: as in Zephaniah 1:7, a prelude to the eschatological woes that are to follow; cf Introduction. 3 [3] Altar: there seems to be only one altar in the heavenly temple, corresponding to the altar of holocausts in Rev 6:9, and here to the altar of incense in Jerusalem; cf also Rev 9:13; 11:1; 14:18; 16:7. 4 [7] This woe resembles the seventh plague of 5 [8-11] The background of these two woes is the first plague of 6 [9] Creatures living in the sea: literally, ＂creatures in the sea that had souls.＂ 7 [11] Wormwood: an extremely bitter and malignant plant symbolizing the punishment God inflicts on the ungodly; cf Jeremiah 9:12-14; 23:15. 8 [13] Woe! Woe! Woe: each of the three woes pronounced by the angel represents a separate disaster; cf Rev 9:12; 11:14. The final woe, released by the seventh trumpet blast, includes the plagues of Rev 16. |
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