我们知道这是讲上帝,通过犹太先知传达的旨意。
We know this is going to be about the message of God given through the Jewish prophets.
犹太人对上帝和摩西的背叛,他们向往埃及。
The Israelites rebel against Moses and God, and they long for Egypt.
换言之,保罗再一次引用犹太经文加强他的信仰,到末日时,外邦人将成为上帝的子民,这在犹太天启观念中很普遍。
In other words, again Paul's quoting Jewish scripture to enforce his belief that at the end of time Gentiles would become people of God and this was common in Jewish apocalyptic idea.
The assertion is not that there is no other god, but that Israel will have no other god before Yahweh.
这个主张并不是说这里没有其他的上帝,而是说犹太人不能再有除耶和华以外的神。
However, when it's used to refer to the God of Israel it's clearly singular, it always has a singular verb.
但是,当指的是犹太人的上帝时,就变成单数,因为他是独一无二的。
In Numbers 14, for example, when the Israelites complain again, God is determined to destroy them, and Moses intervenes, and the intervention leads to a compromise.
比如,在《民数记》14中,当犹太人再次抱怨的时候,上帝决定毁灭他们,但是摩西阻止了,摩西的干涉,使上帝妥协了。
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